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.

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• BBC News: Central African Republic: UN peacekeeper killed in attack
• UN News Centre: UN peacekeeping chief warns Security Council about insecurity in Central African Republic

• Sudan Tribune: Darfur prisoners of war are tortured in Sudanese jails: rebels
• Human Rights Watch: South Sudan: Top Leaders Fail to End Abuses
• VOA News: Report Links Kiir, Machar to Recent South Sudan Crimes

• Reuters: U.N. points finger at “elements” in Congo army over Kasai mass graves
• Reuters: Wanted Congo warlord surrenders to U.N. forces
• UN News Center: DR Congo: UN rights chief names international investigators on Kasai abuses

• All Africa: Cote d’Ivoire: Sporadic Violence and Presidential Tussle Put Hard-Won Security At Risk
• Ghana Business News: Judges order review of Gbagbo’s detention

• Raddington Report: A Common Enemy Unites Lake Chad’s Fractious States
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Nigeria to continue oil exploration in Lake Chad Basin despite kidnapping

• Sputnik International: US Disturbed by Reports of Civilian Killings, Ceasefire Violations in Mali

• The Washington Post: Why Kenya’s upcoming elections should worry the world
• Daily Beast: Kenya Steps Up the War Against al Shabaab Before Its Elections
• Reuters: Protesters demand rapid inquiry into murder of Kenya election official
• The Washington Post: Kenya votes this weekend amid a wave of violence. Here’s how that matters.
• Bloomberg Politics: Kenya Judiciary Accuses Ruling Party of Intimidation Before Vote
• Standard Digital: Stay put: Jubilee leaders tell minority ethnic communities in Nakuru

• The New York Times: Rwanda’s Forever President
• The Guardian: Rwanda since the end of the 1994 genocide

• Voice of America News : Girl Dies in IDP Camp Blast in Somalia, 17 Injured
• Human Rights Watch : Somalia: Al-Shabab Forces Burn Villages
• Garowe Online: Somalia: Two wounded in landmine explosion in Mogadishu
• ABC News: Al-Shabab commander thought killed in Somalia airstrike

• Aljazeera: Libya: Pro-Haftar fighters storm constitution assembly
• The Washington Post: Italy focuses on Libya mission to manage migrant crisis

• Balkan Insight: Bosnia Mulls Election Ban on War Crimes Convicts

• Balkan Insight: Hague Tribunal Frees Stanisic, Simatovic from Custody
• Balkan Insight: Hague Tribunal Denies Bosnian Serb General Early Release
• Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso : The Kravica case and judicial cooperation in the former Yugoslavia

• Balkan Insight: Serbian Court Rejects Restart of Srebrenica Trial
• B92: Kosovo: Oliver Ivanovic’s car set on fire
• Reuters: Survivor of Kosovo massacre faces new challenge – in parliament

• Voice of America: Iraq’s PM Acknowledges Human Rights Violations in Mosul
• Assyrian International News Agency: Iraqi Kurds Forcing Yazidis Who Oppose Independence to Move
• The Times of Israel: Yazidi survivor of Islamic State in Knesset: Recognize our genocide
• Human Rights Watch: Iraq: US-Trained Forces Linked to Mosul War Crimes
• Iraqi News: IS cuts ears of 23 elements who fled battles in Western Nineveh
• The Statesman: NIA court sentences ISIS terrorist to 5 years RI
• Reuters: Attempt to prosecute Blair over Iraq fails in London High Court
• Forbes: Can The Peshmerga Fighters Be Held Liable For Abandoning The Yazidis In Sinjar?

• Reuters: After Syria sarin attack, doctors train to treat chemical weapons victims
• Politico: Top general confirms end to secret U.S. program in Syria
• BBC News: Hezbollah-Syrian offensive launched against border militants
• Al Jazeera: Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham take control of Syria’s Idlib
• Al Jazeera: Syria truce crumbles as air raids hit eastern Ghouta
• BBC News: Will Syria’s war criminals be let off the hook?
• Al Jazeera: UN struggles to deliver humanitarian aid in Syria
• CNN: 9,000 Syrians, including jihadists, cross from Lebanon to Syria in ceasefire deal

• Reuters: Exclusive: Iran Revolutionary Guard finds new route to arm Yemen rebels
• Gulf News: Al Houthi leaders killed in coalition airstrike in Yemen’s Shabwa
• Reuters: Yemen Government Will Not Let Houthis Keep Hodeidah: Minister

• Khmer Times: Duch film an education on the horrors of S-21
• Voice of America: Professors Schooled in Teaching Khmer Rouge History

• The Daily Star: STL: Donaldson cites car crash linking phone to Ayyash
• The Daily Star: Defense argues with chamber over legal protocol at STL
• The Daily Star: U.N. refusal to waive envoy’s immunity not suspicious: legal experts

• Star Online Report: ‘New chief of war crimes tribunal by 7 days’
• bdnews24.com: International Crimes Tribunal gets new registrar
• bdnews24.com: ICT finalises two probe reports against 16 war crimes suspects
• Prothom Alo: ‘ICT,B investigation against Osman Faruque, Moosa underway’
• bdnews24.com: Customs Intelligence charges Moosa bin Shamsher with money laundering

• UN News Centre: Back from visit to Myanmar, independent UN rights expert says situation ‘worsening’
• Burma News International: Amnesty calls for release of journalists

• Reuters: Six dead in worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed for years
• 13 WHAM ABC: Israel to raze home of Palestinian who killed 3 Israelis
• BBC: Israeli soldier who killed wounded Palestinian attacker loses appeal

• The Guardian: El Salvador issues warrants for guerrillas who killed US soldiers during civil war
• BBC: Canada revokes Helmut Oberlander’s citizenship for the fourth time

• New York Times: Argentina sentences 4 ex-judges for dictatorship-era crimes
• UN News Centre: Venezuela: UN rights chief ‘deeply concerned’ by detention of opposition leaders
• The New York Times: Jailings Raise Fears of Dictatorship in Venezuela
• Townhall: Venezuela Slides Toward Civil War

• The Globe and Mail: Inquest into Apartheid Death Hears New Revelations from Former Officer
• Business Day: About 80,000 Apartheid Victims Denied Access to Proper Compensation

• Politico: Court Grounds EU Counterterrorism Plan
• Gulf News: Rights Groups to Sue Qatar over Terror
• Dhaka Tribune: Special tribunals planned for terrorist financing cases
• Reuters: Saudi Arabia seeks to end U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks

• Maritime Executive: Philippine Forces Hunt Terrorists at Sea
• Hellenic Shipping News: Mindanao Conflict Risks Spike in Southeast Asia Piracy
• Maritime Executive: Nigerian Pirates Abduct Five Seafarers from Freighter
• Satellite Today: Using Artificial Intelligence to Track Illegal Activities at Sea

• International Justice Monitor: How the Ongwen Trial Is Influencing Discussions on Accountability in Northern Uganda
• Huffington Post: Serbia, End Your Impunity for War Crimes
• Independent: Third of British People Want to See Tony Blair Tried as a War Criminal over Iraq, Finds YouGov Poll