"We've reached the worst. The most important thing now is change."

"We've reached the worst. The most important thing now is change."
Raed Abu Hamam
Palestinian voter, on the need forthe Palestinian elections.
"For 15 years we have been crying for justice. ... People died from torture in prison, they died from diseases contracted there, they died because there was no medical care, they died of asphyxiation because we were crammed like sardines."
Clement Abaifouta
A survivor of Chadian dictator Hissene Habre's barbarous military regime, in asking the annual African Union summit in Sudan to form a committee of jurists to decide what should happen to Habre.