The pair of war crime prosecutors who indicted Charles Taylor back in 2003 have created a new firm, CW Group, that offered legal services to Guinea’s military regime. They made a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation, apparently aimed at educating the military’s officers and soldiers about the laws governing warfare (and maybe even get them to not violate them so egregiously?) [FP]
I guess if you’re going to have a military, you should teach your soldiers about the rules of war, somehow… But PowerPoint? Really?
One imagines that in the original .ppt version, these bullet points (pun intended?) “Civilians!” “Medical personnel!” and “Prisoners!” would fly in from the right side of the slide, with that car-zooming-and-screeching-to-halt sound effect.
Perhaps the excessive use of PowerPoint is the real war crime here…