"I think in such an important trial, it's very important that every piece of evidence is considered.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

And I think the reason it is considered a landmark conference is that quite a number of issues came to the fore, Controversy surrounded the Durban AIDS conference even before it opened.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

"They have not got their acts together. So I think the Swat operation has sent a very strong signal and if the government now starts an operation in even Waziristan, which is considered as a hard nut, I think it has good chances to succeed."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19