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Timbuktu 'jihadist' to stand trial on war crimes charge: ICC
24 March 2016 by AFP
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday agreed there was enough evidence to put an alleged Malian jihadist on trial for the destruction of the centuries-old world heritage site of Timbuktu. The judges ruled they wou [...]
Karadzic guilty of genocide, jailed for 40 years
24 March 2016 by AFP
UN war crimes judges on Thursday found former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide and sentenced him to 40 years in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.The court said Karadzic, the most h [...]
Chad: Court Order, But No Cash, for Ex-Dictator’s Victims
24 March 2016 by Human Rights Watch
The Chadian government has failed to provide court-ordered reparations to over 7,000 victims of grave crimes under the rule of former dictator Hissène Habré, three rights groups said today. On March 25, 2015, after a three-month t [...]
Karadzic: Bosnian Serb war leader accused of horrors
24 March 2016 by AFP
To his supporters a hero who stood up for his people, Radovan Karadzic is to others a monster who brought the horrors of death camps back to Europe half a century after the defeat of the Nazis. On Thursday the former Bosnian Serb [...]
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24 March 2016 by AFP
The 11 charges against Radovan Karadzic Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will Thursday learn if UN war crimes judges have found him guilty of a slew of atrocities, including a campaign of ethnic cleansing, during the 1990s Balkans conflict. The 70-year-old faces 11 [...]
23 March 2016 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Radovan Karadzic and the Cruel Reflection on Europe Twenty-four years ago, torn by different nationalist tendencies, Bosnia-Herzegovina plunged on April 6, 1992 into a sea of blood and violence.  Sarajevo endured a terrible 44-month siege in which 10,000 civilians died, including 1 [...]
23 March 2016 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
After Bemba, an Urgent Need to Try Crimes in Central African Republic The International Criminal Court’s conviction of former Congolese Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba on March 21 was the first ever judgment handed down for international crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). Many [...]
23 March 2016 by AFP
ICC confirms 70 charges against Ugandan LRA rebel leader War crimes judges Wednesday confirmed 70 charges against notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen for crimes committed in Uganda, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child soldiers. Judges at the Internati [...]
23 March 2016 by Oswaldo J. Hernández, Plaza Publica
The Case of Sepur Zarco Beneath the shawls, justice is served The Guatemalan justice system has said it was not a lie. Sexual violence within the Sepur Zarco military outpost was real. More than ten women had to wait 34 years for the State to acknowledge this fact. However, a much deeper sto [...]
23 March 2016 by AFP
Karadzic expects acquittal in UN war crimes court: report Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said "no reasonable court" would convict him, in an interview published Wednesday, a day before a UN tribunal rules on whether he committed some of Europe's worst atrocities since World [...]
23 March 2016 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : The right to truth “Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the truth…" stated Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, who was killed on 24th March 1980 in his struggle on searching for truth. The  United Nations General Assembly ( [...]
22 March 2016 by AFP
ICC verdict may help end cruelty of rape in war zones Rights activists Tuesday hailed a landmark war crimes verdict that found former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty for rampant sexual abuses by his troops, saying the ruling could help stop rape as a weapon of war. [...]
22 March 2016 by AFP
ICC verdict may help end cruelty of rape in war zones Rights activists Tuesday hailed a landmark war crimes verdict that found former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty for rampant sexual abuses by his troops, saying it could help stop rape as a weapon of war. A declar [...]
22 March 2016 by Human Rights Watch
5 Years On, Awaiting Justice in Côte d'Ivoire : HRW Côte d’Ivoire has not yet delivered justice for victims of grave crimes by both sides in the country’s 2010-2011 post-election crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. President Alassane Ouattara and his new jus [...]
22 March 2016 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Impunity Rules for Torture in Tunisia Halim Meddeb is a lawyer committed to fighting human rights violations. He also works as legal advisor at the Tunis office of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT). The OMCT, Council of Europe, UNDP and the Office of the U [...]
22 March 2016 by AFP
'Mission accomplished' for UN war crimes court? Srebrenica, Vukovar, Sarajevo: towns and cities indelibly scarred by a painful and shameful history and seared forever into Europe's collective conscience. For 23 years, their names and the memories of tens of thousands of victims [...]
22 March 2016 by AFP
Key points about 1990s Balkan wars The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is set to announce this week its most high-profile verdict yet, for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Here are some key points about the 1990s conflicts that [...]
22 March 2016 by AFP
Parents of Sarajevo siege victims nervously await Karadzic ruling Twenty years after the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, in which 1,500 children were killed, the young victims' parents anxiously await a ruling on the man they hold responsible. Among the range of atrocities for which wartime Bosnian [...]
21 March 2016 by AFP
Jean-Pierre Bemba: from wealthy DR Congo vice president to war criminal Former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was a towering figure in business and politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo until a 2006 electoral defeat opened the way to a guilty verdict at a war crimes court. Judges at the Interna [...]