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War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Volume 13 – Issue 1 |
Editor-in-Chief Taylor Frank Technical Editor-in-Chief Managing Editors |
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Contents
AFRICA
CENTRAL AFRICA
- ReliefWeb: GIEWS Country Brief: Central African Republic 06-February-2018
- VOA News: Central African Republic Violence Leaves at Least 5 Dead
- Global Risk Insights: The Security Briefing: Peace prospects for the Central African Republic
- The Guardian: Unicef admits failings with child victims of alleged sex abuse by peacekeepers
- New York Times: U.S. Imposes Arms Ban on South Sudan as Civil War Grinds On
- Sudan Tribune: South Sudanese groups renew clashes in Unity region
- ABC News: Child abductions rise amid South Sudan’s grinding civil war
- ABC News: More than 300 child soldiers released in South Sudan
- Eyewitness News: South Sudan Sentences Rebel Leader’s Spokesman To Death
- Premium Times: South African aide to South Sudan rebels could face death penalty
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Reuters: Congo rebel leader extradited from Tanzania to face trial
- Reuters: U.S. blacklists four for rights abuses, attacks in Congo
- News24: SANDF members alleged to have committed torture and assault in DRC
WEST AFRICA
Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon
- Voice of America: UN: Forgotten Victims of Boko Haram in Desperate Need of Aid
- BBC: Boko Haram releases 13 hostages to Nigerian government
- Voice of America: Rising Temperatures, Terrorism Threaten Cameroon’s Food Security
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Mali’s mounting crisis shows insecurity and fear
- The Economist: Why UN forces are finding it hard to bring peace to Mali
- News 24: Mali ordered to pay $48m to military supplier
- Reuters: Mine explosion kills five civilians, wounds 18 in Mali
- News 24: French forces kill at least 10 jihadists in Mali: military sources
EAST AFRICA
- Reliefweb: Armed conflict, sexual violence, torched homes and extrajudicial killings trigger more than 14,000 refugees to flee
- Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Group Targeted in Violent Break-In
- Daily Nation: Ugandan officials suspended over ‘inflating refugee figures’
- LA Times: Kenyan court suspends government shutdown of radio and TV stations, as journalists complain of harassment
- NPR: Despite Court Order, Kenyan Government Keeps TV Stations Closed
- AllAfrica: Government Crackdown Threatens Rights
- NPR: Inside A Kenyan Courtroom, A Deepening Political Crisis Is On Display
Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
- The New Times: Court reduces sentence for Genocide convict Kabilima
- ABC News: Rwanda, Uganda trade claims over treatment of refugees
- The New Times: Government Upbeat on Achieving UN Rights Recommendations
- VOA News: Program to Verify Identities of Refugees in Rwanda
- CNN: Funding al-Shabaab: How aid money ends up in terror group’s hands
- Relief Web: Bomb Kills 2 Children in Central Somali Village
NORTH AFRICA
- The Libya Observer: ISIS is seeking new home in the far south of Libya, UN report indicates
- Reuters: Bombing at mosque in Libya’s Benghazi kills two, wounds 75: medics
EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- Balkan Insight: Bosniak Fighters Indicted for Deadly Village Attack on Serbs
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Croat Ex-Policeman Cleared of Leading Village Attack
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Croat Ex-Fighters Charged over Mostar Detention Camps
- Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serb Minister Denies Recognising Srebrenica Genocide
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Insight: Milosevic ‘Didn’t Fully Back Bosnian Serb War Goals’
- Open Democracy: International Criminal Justice: from past to future
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Human Rights Watch: EU needs commitment to rights in West Balkans
- Balkan Insight: Kosovo Arrests Two Police Over Ivanovic Investigation
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
- Al-Jazeera: Iraqi tribesmen warn ISIL fighters’ families
- The New Arab: His darkest hours: IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘injured, ill and depressed’
- Iraqi News: PMFs leader: Islamic State’s Baghdadi no longer endangers Iraq’s security
- Iraqi News: Two civilians wounded in bomb blast near Baghdad markets
- Iraqi News: Iraqi official: tribal reconciliation should precede IS families repatriation
- CBS News: Syria may be making new types of chemical weapons, U.S. says
- BBC: Syria war: ‘Chlorine attack’ on rebel-held Idlib town
- The National: The capture of The Isil Beatles brings more questions than answers
- Reuters: Syria suffering some of worst fighting of war, U.N. warns
- VOA News: Syrian Civilian Rescue Force Urges More Action From US, Europe in Securing Cease-fire
- PBS: Terrorist attacks in Afghanistan put Kabul residents on edge
- Channel News Asia: Afghans seeking justice pin hopes on Hague court investigation
- Al-Jazeera: Saudi-led coalition killed 68 children in Yemen: UN
- U.S. Department of Defense: Centcom Updates Counterterrorism Strikes in Yemen
- UNHCR: 85,000 people displaced in 10 weeks as hostilities rage across Yemen
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- The Daily Star: Prosecution wraps up case on Hariri assassination at STL
- Asharq Al-awsat: Hariri Tribunal: Prosecution Completes Presentation of Evidence
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
- Dhaka Tribune: ICT verdict in case against 4 ‘Noakhali Razakars’ any day
- Dhaka Tribune: RAB arrests two JMB militants, thwarts plan to kill converted Christians
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
- Irish Examiner: Five new mass graves discovered in Burma
- Atrocity Alert: Mass graves and mounting evidence of genocide in Myanmar (Burma)
- Reuters: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
- Aljazeera: Israel kills Palestinian after month-long manhunt
- Ma’an News Agency: Rights group says Israel currently holding 19 bodies of slain Palestinians
- IMEMC News: Report: Over 60% of Palestinian Child Detainees Tortured
- Ma’an News Agency: Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians, 4 former prisoners, in West Bank raids
AMERICAS
- TeleSUR: Peru: Families of Fujimori Victims Address Human Rights Court
- The Washington Post: The international community wakes up to torture in Venezuela
- The New York Times: Colombia Rebels Suspend Election Campaign, Putting Peace Into Limbo
- Reuters: Colombia war tribunals hope to heal wounds, punish atrocities
TOPICS
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- VOA: 2 US Lawmakers Nominate Serbian Activist for Nobel Prize
- Africa News: Gambian president appoints head of truth and reconciliation commission
- Human Rights Watch: Nepal: Transitional Justice Proving Elusive
- Mirror: ISIS ‘Beatles’ terrorists could face same supermax jail as hate preacher Abu Hamza
- Nigeria News NG: Court Convicts Chibok Girls Abductor, To Spend 15 Years Behind Bars
- Human Rights Watch: Ensure Fair Trials of Syria ISIS Suspects
- ColomboPage: Sri Lanka to make a request to establish the maritime operations secretariat for suppression of sea piracy off Somalia coast in the country
- CNN: Pirates release crew of oil tanker hijacked off West Africa
- Open Democracy: Prosecuting ISIS crimes against women and LGBTIQ people would set a crucial precedent
- Spectator: ATO Discovers War Is Bad for Women
- International Justice Monitor: Civil Society in Uganda Outraged by Controversial Newspaper Article Clearing Ugandan Army of Committing War Crimes
- ABS CBN: ICC move is step towards justice for drug war victims, lawyer says
- Al Jazeera: War doesn’t have to be nuclear to kill indiscriminately
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