FREDERICK K. COX INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTERFounder/Advisor Michael P. Scharf |
War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Volume 12 – Issue 17 |
Editor-in-Chief James ProwseTechnical Editor-in-Chief Samantha Smyth Managing Editors |
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.
Contents
AFRICA
CENTRAL AFRICA
- Yahoo News: A growing problem: U.N. peacekeepers accused of rape
- Anadolu Agency: Attack on mosque kills 20 in Central African Republic
- All Africa: Central African Republic: Muslim Rivals Have Killed Dozens in Car
- News 24: UN says 26 killed in latest CAR clashes
- Eyewitness News: South Sudan Opposition Groups Meet in Kenya to ‘Harmonise Voices’
- Los Angeles Times: US ambassador to UN evacuated from volatile South Sudan camp
- Reuters: Victims of South Sudan attack on aid workers start testifying from U.S.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Finance Key Terror Network: New Report Shows Hezbollah Used Prominent Bank in War—Ravaged DR Congo to Finance Key Terror Network
- All Africa: African Leaders Call for Strengthened Military Intervention in DRC
WEST AFRICA
Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon
- Council on Foreign Relations: Secession Movements Raise Tensions in Nigeria and Cameroon
- ABC News: Nigerian Court Convicts 45 in Boko Haram Mass Trials
- Business Insider: Over 500 Anglophones arrested in Cameroon after demonstrations: Amnesty
- World Politics Review: In Partnering With Nigeria’s Abusive Military, the U.S. Is Giving Boko Haram a Lifeline
- The Washington Post: UN chief urges support for Sahel force to fight extremists
- Crux: Security situation for Christians in Mali gets worse
- ABC News: Video released of Mali troops held by al—Qaida—linked group
- Daily Nation: ICC investigates war crimes in Mali: Fatou Bensouda
- Macomb Daily News: Jihadist ambush on US forces shows new danger in Sahel
- The Washington Post: Parts of Niger and Mali are already lawless. U.S. strategy might make it worse
EAST AFRICA
- AllAfrica: The Monitor: Museveni Warns On Age Limit Violence
- AllAfrica: The Observer: Kamoga Asks for Bail in Court of Appeal
- AllAfrica: The Monitor: Age Limit – FDC’s Mafabi Released From Police Custody
- AllAfrica: The Monitor: Besigye Granted Bail by Rukungiri Court
- Daily Nation: Lobby threatens to take Nasa to ICC over poll violence
- NPR: In Kenya, Much Of The Election Chaos And Violence Stems From Tribal Divisions
- Newsweek: In Kenya, A Disputed Election Re-Run Raises Fears of Renewed Ethnic Violence
- CNN: How Kenya’s presidential election unraveled
Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
- All Africa: Govt Rubbishes Report on Military Torture Claims
- The New Times: NURC to embark on healing campaigns
- CNBC Africa: Prevention of Torture: UN Human Rights Body Suspends Rwanda Visit Citing Obstructions
- Daily Nation: Rwandan court refuses bail for Diane Rwigara
- Aljazeera: Massive car bomb blast rocks Somalia’s Mogadishu
- Human Rights Watch: Somalia Attack a Wake-Up Call to the West
- Reuters: Three people die in bomb and gun attacks in Somalia
NORTH AFRICA
- The Libya Observer: 300-page complaint submitted to US government against warlord Khalifa Haftar
- The Libya Observer:Fire delays return of water supplies to Tripoli: An accident or Gaddafi loyalists fulfilled their threats?
EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serbs Accuse Judges, Prosecutors of Bias
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Army Troops Jailed for Abusing Croat Prisoners
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serb War Criminals’ Families Demand Case ReviewsBosnian Serb War Criminals’ Families Demand Case Reviews
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Court: 60 Serbs Acquitted of Wartime Crimes
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serbs Accuse Judges, Prosecutors of Bias
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Insight: Russian Minister Says Hague Tribunal ‘Should Be Closed’
- Balkan Insight: UN Prosecutor to Report Croatia to Security Council
- Balkan Insight: UN Prosecutor to Report Croatia to Security Council
- Reuters: U.N. Tribunal schedules verdict in Mladic war crimes trial for Nov. 22
- Expatica: Appeal hearing for radical Serb Seselj set for December
- Balkan Insight: UN Prosecutor to Report Croatia to Security Council
- Balkan Insight: Hague Tribunal Tries Out Video Calls for Defendants
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Insight: Croatian 1990s General Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes
- Balkan Insight: Freed Serbian War Criminal to Teach at Military Academy
- Balkan Insight: Serb Paramilitaries Accused of Croatia Village Massacre
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
- Iraqi News: Iraq urges world assistance with mass graves’ exhumations
- Forbes: Bringing Daesh To Justice — On The Road To Nowhere?
- The Jerusalem Post: Israeli Who Joined ISIS Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
- Human Rights Watch : Iraq: Fighting in Disputed Territories Kills Civilians
- The New York Times: Enmity Between Baghdad and Kurds Erupts in Deadly Clashes
- BBC: Raqqa: IS ‘capital’ falls to US-backed Syrian forces
- BBC: Raqqa: US coalition ‘wiped city off Earth’, Russia says
- UN News Centre: Famine can be a war crime and should be prosecuted, says independent UN rights expert
- USA Today: Dozens of bodies found in Syria ‘massacre’ after government reclaims town from Islamic State
- The Independent: Syria civil war: Harrowing pictures of starving baby show horrors of the brutal conflict
- The Washington Post: Russia vetoes U.N. resolution to continue Syria chemical weapons investigation
- The New York Times: Scores of Bodies Are Found in Syrian Town After ISIS Retreats
- WPXINews.com: US says airstrikes killed dozens of militants in Yemen
- DailyMail.com: Yemen rebel youth minister urges sending children to war
- The Hindu: Three soldiers, 5 assailants killed in Yemen military base attack
- DailyMail.com: US drone strike kills 13 ‘IS fighters’ in Yemen
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- The Daily Star: Analyst ignores attributio details: STL defense counsel
- Neharanet: STL Appeals Chamber rules on pre-trial judge questions on new indictment
- The Daily Star: STL Appeals Chamber decided on legal issues in confidential indictment
- The Daily Star: Donaldson left alone as STL counsels bicker
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
- Star Online Report: War crimes court reconstituted
- Star Online Report: New ICT chairman seeks cooperation from prosecution, defense
- The Quint: How the Rohingya Crisis May Help Pakistan’s Cause in Bangladesh
- Dhaka Tribune: Verdict in Gaibandha razakars case any day
- bdnews24: War crimes verdict looms on former Jamaat MP ‘Ghoramara Aziz’
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
- The Star: Burmese Army Killed Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims: Amnesty International Report
- Sky News: Hundreds of Buddhists in Myanmar Protest Against Rohingya Return
- Independent: Israel Accused of Selling Military Equipment to Burma During ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims
- The National: How Israel’s military rewrote rules of war to put Palestinian civilians in the line of fire
- Middle East Monitor: Qalqilya: Israel occupation forces raids Darwish Hospital
- The Palestine Chronicle: Ashrawi: Israeli Settlement Activity in the West Bank Amounts to War Crimes
AMERICAS
- Online Athens: What Others Say: Why bash Chad? Puzzling US actions toward African nations
- Foreign Policy: SitRep: FBI Steps In to Aid Niger Probe, Pompeo Breaks Ranks
- The Canadian Jewish News: Cotler Tapped for Venezuela Crimes against Humanity Inquiry
- The New York Times: Unearthing a Massacre in Peru
- Colombia Reports: Post conflict situation in central Colombia explosive: mayor
- Colombo Gazette: UN warns case against Jagath could be tip of the iceberg
TOPICS
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Al Jazeera: Why the truth about the death of anti-apartheid activist matters
- NPR: In Kenya, Much Of The Election Chaos And Violence Stems From Tribal Divisions
- Newsweek: Will Sierra Leone’S ‘Peace Diamond’ Benefit The Poor Or Become Another ‘Blood Diamond’?
- Al Arabiya English: Egypt court sentences 11 people to death for’terrorism’
- New Europe: German prosecutors busier with terrorism cases
- Reuters: French judiciary creaking under weight of terrorism cases
- Reliefweb: Report of the Secretary-General on the situation with respect to piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia
- Maritime Executive: IMB: Piracy Declines in First Nine Months of 2017
- Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide: Pirate attacks “still a major concern,” says maritime charity as new figures are released
- New China: Pirates attack German ship in Nigeria, kidnap six crew members
- Aljazeera: Amnesty: Myanmar committed crimes against humanity
- Relief Web: Sepur Zarco: In pursuit of truth, justice, and now reparations
- Justice in conflict: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: The Case for Expertise and Professionalism in Investigations
- The African Exponent: On African Countries And Their Desire To Leave The ICC
- The Libya Observer: ICC Ex-Prosecutor Was On War Crimes’ Suspect Payroll
- International Justice Monitor: Community Members React to ICC Witness’s Testimony That He Did Not Know of Atrocities by Ugandan Government Soldiers
- Amnesty International: UN: Russian veto equivalent to “green light for war crimes”
- Inter Press Service: Deliberate Famine Should Be a War Crime, UN Expert Says
WORTH READING
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