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From historical perspective the Mladic’n arrest and the Hague trial serves as formation of a more comprehensive picture of events in the Balkans in the 90’s after the procecutor and the defense have made their case. Issues related to the underlying...
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PARIS — Expectations that an important war crimes trial would conclude this week were upended on Tuesday when Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, and...
made popular Feb 9 2011
International law is a conundrum for war criminals. It used to be that you could commit crimes in one nation and live in impunity, after exile, in another. Not any...
made popular Feb 7 2011
“We Bombed The Wrong Side” (General Lewis Mackenzie)
In my previous articles I have portrayed Kosovo with quite dark colours. I have summarized Kosovo
“as...
made popular Jan 13 2011
South Sudan is to provide community militia groups with weapons to fight the brutal Ugandan Lord?s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, the governor of the hardest hit...
made popular Sep 27 2010
This is not the first time that Israeli army is in limelight and that too for a bad reason. This time the victims are again Palestinians but sadly the children. Israeli...
made popular Sep 16 2010
Three former soldiers will go on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 250 people, a judge ruled on Wednesday in the first such court case in Guatemala for crimes...
made popular Sep 9 2010
A United Nations-backed tribunal will issue its first verdict here Monday after years of investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide and arguing the case for justice in...
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U.N. war crimes prosecutors said Monday that Croatian forces shelled civilians and torched their homes in a deliberate effort to expel tens of thousands of Serbs during...
made popular Aug 31 2010
The Kenyan government was in a disarray on Sunday over the visit by Sudan President Omar al-Bashir who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for...
made popular Aug 30 2010
The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
An...
made popular Aug 27 2010
New Zealand’s government will soon release findings of reports and legal advice regarding allegations that the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) were...
made popular Aug 18 2010
A war crimes tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer on Monday to a prison term that will see him serve less than half a day for every person killed at...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Chad should arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and genocide when he arrives on a visit and hand him over to the International Criminal...
made popular Jul 21 2010
Shortly after his tenure came to an end, former Vice-president Cheney proudly stated that he authorized waterboarding. And the right-wing was indignant. Not because...
made popular Jun 9 2010
Argentina’s last dictator was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday for kidnappings and torture during the nation’s 1976-1983 military...
made popular Apr 22 2010
“Less than one percent of priests are guilty of this...” ( Ratzinger)
When visit of pope Benedict is coming closer in UK a wide debate has started about...
made popular Apr 19 2010
“US recognition of severed Kosovo province was a serious mistake, leading to an escalation of tensions, instead of calming down the situation in the Balkans ......
made popular Feb 24 2010
Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni recently canceled a trip to London fearing arrest for war crimes. Livni was minister during Israel’s war on the...
made popular Feb 17 2010
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Imagine seeing this cover in America. One can dream.
Here is one of Israel’s cynical talking-propaganda points in opposition to the UN Goldstone report...
made popular Feb 17 2010
After months of dithering and claiming that Hamas had no need to conduct any kind of investigation on itself, they’ve submitted an “investigative report” to the...
made popular Feb 8 2010
Hamas formally rejected allegations made in a United Nations report that it had committed war crimes during last year’s fighting in Gaza.
Hamas officials said...
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The president of Sudan, who is already facing an international arrest warrant, came under new legal scrutiny on Wednesday when appeals judges at The Hague reopened the...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Hamas recently stated they were absolutely not guilty (as per the Goldstone Report) of war crimes during the Gaza War with Israel last year, not that those of us who...
made popular Feb 3 2010
The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz...
made popular Feb 1 2010
They should have been comedians. In an effort to appear to comply with the demands of the Goldstone Commission report, they conducted an “investigation of less than...
made popular Jan 30 2010
The last election in Croatia can bring a refreshing change with new President Ivo Josipovic – a university law professor and a composer of classical music – but he...
made popular Jan 15 2010
Egyptian security forces clashed today with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by the British MP George Galloway as it tried to deliver aid supplies into the Gaza Strip.
made popular Jan 6 2010
U.S. commanders in Iraq began the new year Friday by trumpeting a milestone — their first month without a combat death since the start of the war — and by...
made popular Jan 2 2010
Iraqis on Friday reacted with disbelief, anger and bitter resignation to news that criminal charges in the United States had been dismissed against Blackwater security...
made popular Jan 2 2010
Here is something you will not see in the U.S. press - Palestinians speaking about an Israeli attack on them. The U.S. press rarely lets Palestinians speak for...
made popular Dec 30 2009
They are old and balding now, the 15 defendants standing trial before a three-judge panel near the Argentine capital’s bustling port. But prosecutors say they...
made popular Dec 28 2009
27th of December, 2008.
To some people this date meant seasons holidays, time to love and be loved, time to spend with family, feeling happy, warm , and...
made popular Dec 28 2009
I find it more than a tad ironic that a group of elected terrorists like Hamas, who are more than guilty of committing war crimes of their own, would actually enlist...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Meet the measuring stick of America’s Pentagon:
In other words, the Pentagon determined that 30 casualties, even if they were civilian, were too few to matter...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni has canceled a trip to London fearing arrest for war crimes. Livni was minister during Israel’s war on the...
made popular Dec 15 2009
It was a fact and the whole world knew that all was not right in the Sri Lankan Governments war with the LTTE. Calling an internal insurgency as a war and justifying...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Is USA responsible for the increase in terrorism? The question is difficult to answer, but if we think deeply, then we will get the answer. Yes, US’s policy to finish...
made popular Dec 14 2009
A former navy captain, dubbed the Blond Angel of Death, went on trial yesterday for the kidnap and murder of two French nuns during Argentina’s military...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The British government was aware of “drumbeats in Washington” in early 2001 calling for the toppling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein but steered clear of...
made popular Nov 25 2009
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