Humanitarian help has become a huge industry, buffering corrupt regimes and perpetuating war, claims the author of a new book.

'Some died silently - they just didn't have enough air to breathe. I had to drink my own urine because there was no water,' death camp survivor Ahmet Zulic told the war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic.

Knives, clubs, large rocks, bottles and an axe were recovered from the scene where a man become the first person to be tasered in the South Island.

The Police Association says the United Nations Human Rights Committee is out of touch, after it criticised police adoption of Tasers.

Narcotics body says Governments need to act fast to limit access to sedatives used by sex predators.