Founder/Advisor
Michael P. Scharf |
War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Volume 12 – Issue 22
January 8, 2018 |
 Editor-in-Chief
James Prowse Technical Editor-in-Chief
Samantha Smyth |
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.
- Vice: Inside the brutal war that’s ripping apart the Central African Republic
- Crux: Central African Republic cardinal says justice key to ending violence
- Rappler: Hundreds flee clashes in Central African Republic
- Al Jazeera: South Sudan: Army and rebels allege truce breaches
- DW News: South Sudan: Refugees flee to DRC amid latest fighting
- ReliefWeb: 22 killed, 18 injured in inter-clan war in South Sudan
- ReliefWeb: South Sudan denies truce violation after troika condemnation
- Sudan Tribune: South Sudan presidential adviser says rebels use ceasefire for mobilization
- Bloomberg News: South Sudan Rebel Attacks Have Killed 34 People Since Beginning of Year
- Daily Mail: UN to close four bases in DR Congo
- Reuters: Attackers torch Democratic Republic of Congo president’s property
- CNN: Congo and Uganda kill dozens of rebels suspected in UN killings
- IRIN: Crisis listicles, localisation in practice, and long-term dangers in Burundi: The Cheat Sheet
- Iwacu English News: Burundi President appoints commissioners of National Observatory to prevent genocide
- Reuters: Macron: France Ready to Strengthen Force in Sahel Fighting Islamists
- Reuters: Italy PM plans to shift military forces from Iraq to Niger
- Daily Mail: Free at last: 700 men, women and children abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria have escaped from captivity
- Al-Jazeera: Suicide attack on Nigeria mosque causes multiple deaths
- news 24: Mali Army kills five jihadists after ambush
- New Vision: Ousted Malian president to return from exile
- CNN: Congo and Uganda kill dozens of rebels suspected in UN killings
- AllAfrica: The Observer: Museveni Assents to Age Limit Bill
- Daily Nation: I am ready for Raila oath-taking plan, says Kalonzo Musyoka
- New Delhi Times: Kenyan Opposition: If No Dialogue, We’ll Inaugurate Odinga
- Reuters: Somalia releases jailed ex-minister and government critic
- Daily Nation: How Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden sowed seed of Somalia’s woes
- The Washington Post: Islamic State group releases 1st video of Somalia fighters
- Seattle Times: New US airstrike in Somalia kills 13 al-Shabab members
- Business Insider: Raid on senator’s home reveals divisions in Somali security forces
- Washington Post: Al-Shabab extremists execute 5 alleged spies in Somalia
- CNN: US says 2 terrorists killed in Somalia airstrike
- Balkan Insight: Bosnia Acquits Rogatica Camp Guard of Killings, Rape
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Charged with Wartime Rape
- Balkan Insight: Female Bosnian Croat Fighter Jailed for War Crimes
- Balkan Insight: 14 Bosniaks Charged with Crimes Against Humanity
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serb Ex-Minister Charged with Srebrenica Crimes
- Balkan Insight: Hague Tribunal Celebrates Achievements at Closing Ceremony
- B92: Justice minister visits Ratko Mladic in prison
- HINA: Brammertz regrets acquittals of Gotovina, Markac, Haradinaj and Perisic
- Agence France Presse: Court says couldn’t have ‘detected’ Balkan war criminal’s poison
- Balkan Insight: Kosovo Lawmakers Try to Scrap New War Court
- B92: More than 60 ex-KLA to be indicted for war crimes
- Balkan Insight: Serbia: War Criminals Praised, War Trials Delayed
- Balkan Insight: Kosovo: War Court Challenged, Ex-Guerrillas Acquitted
- Balkan Insight: Macedonia: Probing for Truth about Ethnic Violence Trials
- Human Rights Watch: Kurdistan Region of Iraq: 350 Prisoners ‘Disappeared’
- Iraqi News:Iraqi court sentences two Islamic State militants to death
- Iraqi News:62 mass graves with thousands of Yazidi victims’ relics found in Sinjar
- Human Rights Watch:Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians
- Forbes:Council Of Europe Leading The Legal Fight Against Daesh
- Associated Press:Thousands remain missing after Iraq’s victories against IS
- Iraqi News:Diyala court sentences IS member to death over assisting suicide attackers in blasts
- Iraqi News:Tribal fighter killed, two police personnel wounded in clashes with IS in Kirkuk
- The Guardian: Rebel groups reject talks on Syrian conflict hosted by Russia
- BBC: Syria war: Evacuations of critically ill people completed
- ABC News: Syrian civilians and troops killed by Islamic State found in mass graves
- Al-Jazeera: ‘Civilians killed’ in Saudi raids in Yemen’s Taiz
- The New York Post via Reuters: UN says Saudi-led coalition raids in Yemen kill 109 civilians
- The Washington Post: Mattis defends U.S. efforts to prevent civilian casualties in Yemen
- Boston Globe via AFP: Suspected Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen kill 23
- The Daily Star: War Crimes Trial: Accused to become approver
- bdnews24.com: ICT investigation agency finalises report against 11 war crimes suspects
- Dhaka Tribune: Suspected war criminal Latif wants to be state witness
- Daily Mail: War criminal ‘executioner’ on Interpol’s most wanted list who once posed alongside Prince Charles is found living in a £1million home in a leafy north London cul-de-sac
- The Daily Star: Genocide of Rohingyas: Is another Bosnia in the making?
- The Washington Post: 5 reasons the U.N. Security Council should care about the Burmese military’s sexual assaults on the Rohingya
- Aljazeera: Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza protests
- Fox News: 2 Palestinians die of wounds from Israel clashes in Gaza
- Aljazeera: Oren Hazan harasses families of Palestinian prisoners
- Aljazeera: ‘I fear being shot’: A Palestinian paramedic’s account
- Aljazeera: Likud calls for annexation of parts of West Bank
- The Himalayan Times: MoPR working on amendment to transitional justice act
- BBC News: The future of international justice
- Huffington Post: A Call for Empathy towards North Korea
- Daily Sabah: Syrian opposition demands US-backed PYD be put on UN’s terrorism list
- Sputnik: ICC’s Inquiry into US War Crimes: Will Justice be Served?
- Forbes: Council of Europe Leading the Legal Fight against Daesh
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