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War Crimes

Complementary Jurisdiction Helps Define the ICC

A Look at the International Criminal Court and National Sovereignty The International Criminal Court uses an interesting choice of jurisdiction to support national trials for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity....

Comment: Bringing Peace to the Kivus

If no sustainable solution can be found, the region will always remain Congo’s Achilles’ heel. By Eugene Bakama Bope in Brussels (AR No. 189, 8-Oct-08) It has been five years since the official end of the Second Congo War, but...

Sri Lanka: Karuna's presence in Parliament a travesty of justice

The Sri Lankan Parliament should reject, through a vote of no confidence, the membership of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, otherwise known as Karuna, who is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Today in The Nation: The Afghan Tragedy

Human Rights Malalai Joya: 'Seven years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, my devastated country is still chained to the fundamentalist warlords and the Taliban; it is like an unconscious body breathing its last.' Exactly...

Breakaway Tiger leader sworn into Sri Lanka parliament

Source: Reuters (Adds details, casualties, quotes) By Ajith Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Oct 7 (Reuters) -- An ex-Tamil Tiger leader who allied with the government to win eastern Sri Lanka back from the separatist rebels ...

Karadzic Hopes to Get Indictment Dismissed

Karadzic Files Motion With UN War Crimes Court to Turn Over Evidence on Alleged Deal to Avoid Prosecution THE HAGUE, Netherlands October 6, 2008 (AP) Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic attends a hearing at the United...

South Ossetia floods rights court with Georgia writs

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights has received nearly 2,000 applications from South Ossetians complaining of illegal treatment at the hands of Georgia, the president of the court, Jean-Paul Costa, said on...

An agenda with a difference

Gareth Evans, author of Responsibility to Protect, is an optimist who believes that good will triumph over evil and that the United Nations, the African Union and other multilateral organisations will save people when sovereign...

Scars of war and footsteps of criminals attract tourists

Belgrade/Zagreb - Now that their countries are making headlines for other events, Serbian and Croatian travel agencies are offering paying customers a chance to see the scars of war or to retrace the footsteps of the...

Court demands arrest of Uganda rebel leader

Rebel leader Joseph Kony faces warrants from international war crimes court Kony accused of murder, rape, enslavement, using child soldiers International court blames Kony's group for attacks in Congo last month THE HAGUE,...

               

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