war crimes

Daily update ⋅ September 18, 2015
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A Reckoning on Sri Lanka War Crimes

International New York Times
The United Nations Human Rights Council released its report Wednesday on possible war crimes committed during the last years of the Sri Lankan …
UN calls for war crimes court in Sri Lanka – WPTZ The Champlain Valley
Lanka Business Online
Sri Lanka offers domestic probe into warcrimes report

Fulton News
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka says is to establish a local mechanism to investigate accusations of human rights abuses stemming from the …
Balkan Insight
Bosnian Croat Military Policeman Cleared of War Crimes

Balkan Insight
Former Croatian Defence Council military policeman Mato Condric was acquitted of sexually abusing a female prisoner and physically abusing a man …
Revised (US) law made Rome (war crimes) Statute inapplicable in US

Asian Tribune
Congress passed the War Crimes Act of 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, with “overwhelming bipartisan support.” The War Crimes Act …
War crimes report

The Hindu
Many countries and human rights organisations have been demanding a probe into the war crimes for sometime now (“Sri Lankan war crimes horrific: …
UN News Centre
UN officials outraged at accounts of Sri Lanka war crimes, stress need for accountability

Big News Network.com
17 September 2015 — Two senior United Nations officials today expressed outrage at the very serious accounts of war crimes and crimes against …
RINF Alternative News
Rejected! Parliament refuses to debate war criminalNetanyahu arrest petition

RINF Alternative News
Parliament has declined to debate a petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for allegedwar crimes.
Sri Lanka to set up domestic mechanism to probe war crimes

GlobalPost
17 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s new government said on Thursday that it hopes to set up a domestic mechanism to investigate the allegations of war crimes.
 
Hindu American Foundation calls for international investigation into Sri Lanka civil war crimes

San Jose Mercury News
This year’s event called for an international investigation into war crimescommitted during Sri Lanka’s civil war, in preparation for the U.N. Human …
BBC News
Yemen’s Forgotten War

BBC News
Human rights organisations say the strikes often target civilians and may amount to war crimes. Gabriel Gatehouse has been to Yemen to investigate.

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