Volume 5, Issue 13 – September 27, 2010
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Central African Republic & Uganda
- Sudan Tribune: LJM Rebels Capture Three LRA Members in South Darfur
- UN News Centre: UN Steps Up Border Patrols After Reported Rebel Arms Trafficking to Uganda
Darfur, Sudan
- Sudan Tribune: Arab League Backs Sudan’s Bashir Against ICC Indictments
- Daily Nation: Kenya Tells ICC Why Bashir Was Not Arrested
Democratic Republic of the Congo (ICC)
- LubangaTrial.org: Timeline: Lubanga’s War Crimes Trial At The ICC
- LubangaTrial.org: Lubanga’s Missing Co-Perpetrator: Who is Bosco Ntaganda?
- LubangaTrial.org: Prosecutor Asks Lubanga Trial Judges To Reopen Trial
- LubangaTrial.org: Lubanga Opposes Prosecutor’s Bid To Interview Pending Witnesses
Kenya
AFRICA
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Hirondelle News Agency: Genocide Survivor Accounts the Horror He Went Through
- Hirondelle News Agency: Rwandan Major Denies Soldiers Distributed Weapons to Civilians in 1994
- Hirondelle News Agency: Habyarimana Denies That MRND Youth Wing Was Created to Exterminate Tutsis
- Hirondelle News Agency: Law Enforcers Backed Hutu Assailants in Killing Tutsis, Claims Witness
- Hirondelle News Agency: France Refuses to Extradite Rwandan Doctor Eugene Rwamucyo
- Hirondelle News Agency: Ndahimana Trial Adjourned to November
- Hirondelle News Agency: Former Rwandan Defence Minister Contradicts His Own Old Statement
- Hirondelle News Agency: Ex-Rwandan Mayor Denies Interahamwe Presence in His Commune
- Hirondelle News Agency: Former Information Minister Contradicts Evidence Over MRND
Special Court for Sierra Leone
EUROPE
European Court of Human Rights
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- State Court of BIH: Verdict of the Third Instance Panel of the Appellate Division in the Suad Kapic Case Dispatched
- State Court of BIH: Trial Verdict upheld in the Novak Dukic case
- State Court of BIH: Custody of Vinko Kondic Terminated and Prohibitive Measures Imposed
- State Court of BIH: Indictment Confirmed in Case Against Milivoje Cirkovic
- State Court of BIH: Indictment Confirmed in Dragan Neskovic and another
- Balkan Investigative Reporting Network: Neskovic and Ilic: (Un)grounded Custody Motion
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Associated Press: Serbia Police Search 5 Locations on Trail of Fugitive Genocide Suspect Ratko Mladic
- Southeast Europe Times: Gotovina Trial Comes to an End
- Associated Press : War Crimes Prosecutor Urges EU to Keep up Pressure on Serbia to Arrest Ratko Mladic
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Military Observer Describes “Random” Sarajevo Shelling
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Court Hears of Keraterm Killings
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- The Phnom Penh Post: KRT Plans Rule Changes for Victims
- The Phnom Penh Post: Hor Namhong Calls for KRT Aid from Japanese
- The Phnom Penh Post: Judge to Quit Court
- Associated Press: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Indicts 4 Senior Leaders
- VOA Khmer: Following Tribunal Indictments, Appeals All Around
- The Phnom Penh Post: KRT Bribery Allegation
- The Phnom Penh Post: KRT Amends Reparations Rules
Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- The Daily Star: STL’s Defense Attorneys Begin Training Sessions
- Naharnet: Ban: Progress Made in Investigation, International Tribunal Not in Danger
- Naharnet: French Sources Do Not Rule Out Indictment Postponement
- Reuters Canada: Lebanon Tribunal Says Can Hear El Sayed File Request
- The Daily Star : Majority MPs Withdraw from Budget Meeting After Debate Over STL Funding
- Naharnet: Hariri Murder Reenactment Postponed
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
United States
- Reuters : U.S. Handover Puts Iraqi Prisoners at Risk – Amnesty
- Agence France Presse: USS Cole Suspect Wants Probe of CIA Sites in Poland
- Miami Herald: Prosecutor Says Sudanese Captive at Guantanamo Linked to 9/11 Training
TOPICS
Terrorism
- Herald Sun : Terror Charges Laid Against Australian Man in New York
- Washington Post: Man Allegedly Shifted Funds to Times Square Plotter
- Telegraph: British Terrorism Suspect Arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport
- Associated Press: Cops in Court Over Alleged Terror Suspect Assault
- Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera Slams ISAF Over Arrests
- The Phnom Penh Post: Terrorist Gets Eighteen Years
- Al Jazeera : US Could Continue Afghan Detention
Piracy
- Intermanager: Marshall Islands Puts Pirates on Trial
- IFW: Top Shipping Lines Join Forces in War on Piracy
REPORTS
NGO Reports
- Human Rights Watch: Small Fish, Big Fish in Serbia
- Human Rights Watch: Japan: Press Burma for Justice
UN Reports
- Voice of America: Many Internally Displaced Children Recruited as Soldiers
- Aljazeera: UN Criticizes Gaza War Crime Probes
- Mizzima: Dutch, New Zealanders Back UN Inquiry on Junta Abuses
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS
General
- Thailand
◦ Bangkok Post: Peace Panel Adviser on Truth, Justice and the Way Forward
- The Solomon Islands
◦ Solomon Star : RSIPF Strives for a Positive Future
◦ Solomon Star: Sikua: Positive Response to Police Early Retirement Scheme
- Nepal
◦ The Himilayan : NHRC Expresses Concern
- Honduras
◦ UN News Centre: Honduras: Ban Renews Support for Reconciliation Moves After Last Year’s Coup
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia
COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES
- The Phnom Penh Post: KR Tribunal at a Crossroads
- Opinio Juris: Not Dead Yet – Some Thoughts on Kiobel
- Business Day: South Africa Leads the Way in Standing Up Against War Criminals
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