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Genocide Prevention Resolution – As Introduced on 05 August 2010
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War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 5, Issue 13 – September 27, 2010
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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ICC Should Decide on Gaza Conflict Investigation
ICC should decide on Gaza conflict investigation
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/icc-urged-decide-gaza-conflict-investigation-2010-09-27
27 September 2010
Amnesty International has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to decide on whether it can investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 2008-9 conflict in Gaza and southern Israel.
The Human Rights Council must make the same call after it considers today a report by a committee of independent experts highlighting the continuing failures of both the Israeli and Hamas authorities to investigate violations of international law that were documented more than a year ago by a UN fact-finding mission headed by Judge Richard Goldstone.
“Both Israeli and Hamas authorities have been given adequate time and opportunity to ensure justice for the victims, yet they are both failing to do so,” said Widney Brown, Senior Director of International Law and Policy, Amnesty International. “An international justice solution must now be found.”
Neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority (PA) has ratified the Rome Statute. However, in January 2009, the PA declared that it accepted the ICC’s jurisdiction over all crimes committed in the territory of Palestine since July 2002.
If that declaration is valid, under the ICC’s rules it would cover all crimes committed during the conflict, both in Gaza and in southern Israel.
“Victims have waited long enough,” said Widney Brown. “It’s now time the ICC Prosecutor sought a decision on whether the Palestinian declaration submitted in 2009 allows him to act. If the Pre-Trial Chamber determines that the ICC has jurisdiction, the Prosecutor should open an investigation into crimes committed by both sides during the Gaza conflict, without delay.”
Amnesty International has called on national authorities of all states to investigate and prosecute crimes committed in the Gaza conflict before their national courts on behalf of the international community, said Widney Brown, noting that all states can prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity – regardless of where they are committed.
Amnesty International also urged the Human Rights Council to:
- recognize the failure of the investigations conducted by Israel and the Hamas de facto administration to comply with international law and standards;
- call on states to investigate and prosecute crimes committed during the conflict before their national courts by exercising universal jurisdiction;
- refer the Committee’s report to the UN General Assembly – and request that Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, place the report before the Security Council.
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