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War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Volume 12 – Issue 15 |
Editor-in-Chief James Prowse Technical Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors |
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Contents
AFRICA
CENTRAL AFRICA
- Relief Web: Civilians ‘Direct Targets’ as Conflict Spreads in Central African Republic
- UN News Centre : Fresh violence in Central African Republic leads to more displaced – UN agency
- The Hill: Central African Republic turns a blind eye to the persecution of Muslim minority
- Africa News: Over 100 Eritreans deported by Sudan, others jailed: U.N. deeply concerned
- The Citizen: US calls on Sudan to probe Darfur camp clashes
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Reuters: Locked in power struggle, Congo army and militia massacred hundreds: report
- Relief Web: One peacekeeper killed in Beni territory
- UN News Centre: DR Congo: UN agency urges Government to protect refugees after tragic killings
- Daily Mail: US, EU slam DR Congo army for using ‘excessive force’
- UN News Centre: DR Congo: Security Council condemns attack against UN peacekeeping mission
WEST AFRICA
- Daily Mail: Ex-Army Chief Testifies in Gbagbo Trial at ICC
- Reuters: Former Ivory Coast President Gbagbo to Remain in Detention for Trial: ICC
Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon
- Newsweek: Terrorism in Africa: Ending Violence in Mali Starts With Building Communities
- AllAfrica: UN Secretary-General Condemns Killing of Peacekeepers in Mali
EAST AFRICA
- BBC NEWS: Kenya election: System ‘cannot be ready’ for October poll
- All Africa: Bounty Offered for Al—Shabaab Terror Kingpins
Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
- The New Times: Rwanda: Genocide — France Can Keep the Archives — The Truth Is There for All to See
- The McGill International Review: Kagame and The Congo
- eNCA: French bank probed for alleged complicity in Rwandan genocide
NORTH AFRICA
- The Guardian: General accused of war crimes courted by west in Libya
- Aljazeera: Libyan rights groups accuse UAE of war crimes
- Reuters: Rescue ship says Libyan coast guard shot at and boarded it, seeking migrants
EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Insight : Serbian State Security Chief Denies Controlling Arkan
- Balkan Insight : Serbia’s Seselj Mocks Hague Tribunal in Reality Show
- Balkan Insight : Yugoslav Army ‘Armed Serb Forces in Croatia’
- Balkan Insight : Vojislav Seselj Rejects Warning From Hague Tribunal
- Balkan Insight : Hague Tribunal Extends Jovica Stanisic’s Release
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Insight: Belgrade Jail Warden Faces Retrial for Milosevic ‘Kidnap’
- B92: Captain Dragan sentenced to 15 years by Croatian court
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
- Iraqi News: Islamic State’s second executioner killed in month, southwestern Kirkuk
- The Washington Post: UN may vote soon to help Iraq collect evidence against IS
- ABC News: The Latest: Iraq PM says Mosul abuses not systematic
- The Washington Times: Final showdown with Islamic State raises worries about civilian casualties
- The Washington Post: Germany arrests 2 Islamic State suspects in Berlin
- ABC News: UN votes to help Iraq collect evidence against Islamic State
- Human Rights Watch: Iraq: Missed Opportunity for Comprehensive Justice
- The Washington Post: The Latest: Activists say 20 dead in east Syria strikes
- The Sun: None of the 400 British citizens who fought with ISIS in Syria before coming back have been charged with war crimes
- Forbes: Victims Of The Daesh Genocide Still Waiting For Assistance
- The Washington Post: Germany: Syrian refugee jailed over UN observer’s abduction
- Al Jazeera: ‘Deadly air strikes’ target hospitals in Syria’s Idlib
- ABC News: 4 men accused of killings in Syria go on trial in Germany
- BBC News: US—led strikes killed 84 civilians in Syria — HRW
- The New York Times: Iran Is Smuggling Increasingly Potent Weapons Into Yemen, U.S. Admiral Says
- The Los Angeles Times: ‘No hope on the horizon’ for Yemen, U.N. humanitarian official says
- The Guardian: US-made bomb killed civilians in Yemen residential building, says Amnesty
- The New York Times: Saudi Arabia Resists Independent Inquiry on Yemen Atrocities
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- The Daily Star: STL schedules hearing to discuss indictment
- The Daily Star: STL quibbles over cellphone attributions
- The Daily Star: Coverage maps somewhat inaccurate: STL testimony
- The Daily Star: STL defense contests phone
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
- Dhaka Tribune: International Crimes Tribunal to get new chairman soon
- BD News 24: Hasina floats Bangladesh’s proposals at UN to end Rohingya crisis forever
- Dhaka Tribune: Bangladesh PM at UNGA: 1971 genocide should be recognised internationally
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
- Vox: The World’s Fastest-Growing Refugee Crisis is Taking Place in Myanmar. Here’s why.
- Independent: Rohingya crisis: Hundreds of Buddhists gather to block aid shipment reaching Burma’s fleeing Muslims
- Human Rights Watch: Crimes against Humanity by Burmese Security Forces Against the Rohingya Muslim Population in Northern Rakhine State since August 25, 2017
AMERICAS
- Just Security: Smoking Gun Videos Emerge: US Citizen, Libyan Warlord Haftar Ordering War Crimes
- Newsweek: Trump Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes After An American Bomb Killed Yemeni Children
- Reuters: El Salvador launches commission to find those missing from civil war
- TeleSUR: Argentina Sentences 6 to Life in Prison for Crimes Against Humanity During US-Backed Dirty War
- Bloomberg: Venezuela Spurns Travel Ban, Calls U.S. Major ‘Rights Violator’
TOPICS
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Nepal Times: Rights Right Here at Home
- Ashland Daily Tidings: What We Can Learn from South Africa about Reconciliation
- Huffington Post Holdings: What Happened To the Reconcilation Project?
- The News International: Central Jail Officials Guilty of Aiding and Abetting Terrorists: CTD
- Vancouver Sun: Fort St. John Man Acquitted on Four Terrorism Charges
- Belfast Telegraph: PPS May Appeal Prison Sentences of Dissident Bombers Due to ‘Leniency’
- Maritime Executive: Coast Guard Leaders to Collaborate on Piracy and Pollution
- Maritime Executive: 11 Pirates Sentenced to Prison for Tanker Hijacking
- Daily Mail: UN to tackle claim it mishandles C. Africa rape cases
- Al Jazeera: ‘Thousands of women raped and assaulted’ in South Sudan
- Trib Live: UN peacekeepers in Congo hold record for rape, sex abuse
- Reuters: U.N. medics see evidence of rape in Myanmar army ‘cleansing’ campaign
- SF Gate: Increasing reports of sexual violence against Rohingya worry UN
- Daily Nation: Crimes of UN Officers Must be Tried by Fair, External Tribunal
- The New York Times: The Tiger Force Atrocities
- Independent: I’m All for War Crimes Trials in The Hague – So Long as We Agree to Prosecute Every Possible War Criminal
WORTH READING
- Leila N. Sadat: The Urgent Imperative of Peace: Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force
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