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War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Volume 11 – Issue 8 |
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War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please email warcrimeswatch@pilpg.org and type “subscribe” in the subject line.
Opinions expressed in the articles herein represent the views of their authors and are not necessarily those of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch staff, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law or Public International Law & Policy Group.
AFRICA
- International Justice Monitor: Bemba Given 18-Year Jail Sentence at ICC
- UN News Centre: Disarming armed groups, civilian protection crucial for Central African Republic – UN expert
- Voice of America: HRW Urges the AU to Establish a Hybrid Court for South Sudan
- Eyewitness News: US, Britain back South Sudan War Crimes Court
- Voice of America: South Sudan’s Machar Denies Opposing War Crimes Court
- Al Jazeera: Bashir declares ceasefire in Blue Nile, South Kordofan
- Human Rights Watch: UN: Act on South Sudan Investigations
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- International Justice Monitor: Bemba Sentence to be Delivered on June 21
- International Justice Monitor: Bemba Given 18-Year Jail Sentence at ICC
- Daily Mail: DR Congo’s Bemba to appeal conviction, call for mistrial
WEST AFRICA
Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon
- AA: Bodies of 42 kidnapped fishermen found in Lake Chad
- All Africa: Central Africa: Lake Chad Basin – Nine Million People Need Assistance
- Al Jazeera: Australian company’s workers kidnapped in Nigeria
- Vanguard: BOKO HARAM: Insurgents flee Lake Chad axis under massive JNTF pounding
- News 24: Nearly 200 die in a month at Boko Haram displaced camp
- AllAfrica: Mali: Divided Opinions Over France’s Condemnation On Mali Rebels’ Duplicity
- AllAfrica: Malian Parties Must Make Peace and Reconciliation ‘A Reality,’ UN Envoy Tells Security Council
- Strategy Page: Mali: Sliding From Troublesome To Terrible
EAST AFRICA
- The Washington Post: Uganda to withdraw troops from Central African Republic
- Africanews.en: US pledges to work with Uganda to eliminate LRA
- Human Rights Watch: Uganda: Uganda: Investigate Break-ins at Groups’ Offices Pattern of Attacks Indicates Perpetrators Enjoy Impunity
- Reuters: Lord’s Resistance Army rebels kidnap 17 in Central African Republic
- BBC: Uganda witness for Muslim cleric murder ‘castrated’
- AllAfrica: The Monitor: Uganda: Kayihura Accused in Sheikhs Murder Trial
- Africa News: ICC warns Kenya to avoid crimes against humanity towards election
- BBC: Kofi Annan questions ICC over Kenyatta and Ruto cases
Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
- Aljazeera: Rwanda: Africa’s success story or authoritarian state?
- All Africa: Rwanda: Verdicts in Ngenzi, Barahira Genocide Trial for July 6
- All Africa: Rwanda’s Progress to Be Highlighted At AU Summit in Kigali
NORTH AFRICA
EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Trial Verdict upheld in the case v. Oliver Krsmanović
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stojan Kenjalo and Dragan Balaban sentenced to 7 each, and Zoran Kenjalo to 5 years in prison
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Prosecution Angered by Judge’s Criticism
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Justice Report: Bosnian Prosecution Angered by Judge’s Criticism
- Balkan Insight: Serbia PM Using Milosevic Probe as Distraction, Critics Say
- Reuters: Kosovo parliament votes to extend EU legal mission mandate
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- VOA Khmer: A Decade Later, Khmer Rouge Tribunal Leaving a Mixed Legacy
- Khmer Times: Khmer Rouge Court Questioned
- Southeast Asia Globe: Did the Khmer Rouge Regime Commit Genocide?
- The New York Times: 51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria
- The New York Times: Lebanese Army Slowly Crushing Extremists Near Syria Border
- The New York Times : Norway’s Parliament Approves Sending Troops to Syria
- The New York Times: Syria Activists Say Airstrikes on IS-Held Raqqa Kill 18
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Military Times: Islamic State militants push back in Syria, Iraq and Libya
- The New York Times: Tajik Man Arrested in Germany, Accused of Joining IS
- The New York Times: Denmark Finds Man Guilty of Traveling to Syria to Join IS
- The Daily Star: Daesh bomb maker surprises court with claims of evidence for STL
- The Daily Star: Defense appeals ruling on Badreddine death
- The Daily Star: STL on hold pending ruling on Badreddine
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
- Al Jazeera: Execution of Nizami bodes ill for Bangladesh’s future
- Reuters: Islamic State claims third attack in week on Bangladesh minorities
- Click Ittefaq: Pakistan admits genocide by backing war criminals: FM
- New Age: War crimes: 4 Noakhali suspects indicted
- bdnews24.com: Hearing on death-row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali’s review petition on July 25
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
- ABC Online: Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi bans use of Rohingya name for oppressed Muslims
- The Irrawaddy: UN Rapporteur Avoids Contentious Terms with Arakan Chief Minister
AMERICAS
- TeleSur: Guatemala Crimes Against Humanity Trial Takes a Historic Step
- The Guardian: Experts ask for new investigation into disappearance of 43 Mexican students
- The L.A. Times: A $1 million shortfall is threatening help for human rights victims in the Americas
- Seattle Times: Spokane-based psychologists admit harsh treatment of CIA prisoners, but deny torture
- Buenos Aires Herald: Pinochet-era torturers’ sentences upheld by Chilean court
- ABC News: Ex-Chilean Officer Faces Torture Trial in Florida
- The Washington Times: Colombia, FARC to make cease-fire, disarmament official after half-century civil war
TOPICS
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Sudan Tribune: U.S pushes for war crimes tribunal in South Sudan
- The Indian Express: Politics of Human Rights
- prweb.com: A Call for Truth and Reconciliation in the United States
- The Hankyoreh: Recordings surface, shedding light on Korean War-era massacres
- CBC News: Alberta training educators to teach Indigenous issues
- Waco Tribune: PKK claims attack against police in southeast Turkey
- The Washington Post: Kurdish militant group claims Istanbul blast, warns that tourists aren’t safe
- The New York Times: Orlando Gunman Was ‘Cool and Calm’ After Massacre, Police Say
- Al Jazeera: Explosion rocks Blom Bank headquarters in Beirut
- BBC News: Philippines condemns Abu Sayyaf killing of Canadian Robert Hall
- France 24: Three detained in connection with deadly terrorist stabbing of French policeman
- The Maritime Executive: ReCAAP: Asian Piracy at Lowest Level in Four Years
- The Maritime Executive: Nigerian Navy Arrests Owner of Pirate Mother Ship
- AllAfrica.com: Kenya: Anti-Piracy Group Calls for Shift in Strategy
- Reuters: Three southeast Asian nations to designate shipping corridor in piracy battle
- Pulse.ng: Nigeria Navy squashes illegal refinery in Delta State
- The Diplomat: Japan Extends Anti-Piracy Mission off Somalia For Another Year
