The result of this policy of state terrorism has been a wretched, criminal slaughter of children — a slaughter that has been hidden from view.

Five young Palestinians killed in 13 days, including Mohammed al-Salaymeh, killed at a checkpoint while en route to buy a cake to celebrate his 17th birthday.

The toppling of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi led to "perhaps the greatest proliferation of weapons of war from any modern conflict".

The suggestion that the transformation of Mali into a 'mess' and a 'global threat' might have been a 'cock up', constitutes the outer limits of acceptable criticism for the BBC.

US, British and other western forces have invaded, bombed, tortured and kidnapped their way across the Arab and Muslim world for over a decade.

Ex-soldier Joe Glenton says, while war is a toxic institution, for some of those who conduct it, particularly privileged young princes it can appear to be a latter-day boy's own adventure.

Had these Malian rebels found themselves in Syria or Libya (at the time of Gaddafi) they would have been called revolutionaries, received funding, training and been armed by the West.

"This arrogant and insensitive attitude to killing Afghans, whoever they are, is hardly likely to win hearts and minds - a supposed aim of the war."

Explo Nani-Kofi says, you would think that after the disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, those who have waged endless war for the past eleven years would have had enough.

"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy." -- Martin Luther King 1967