ARTICLES RELATING TO WAR CRIMES

Syrian army 'totally controls' Qusayr

2013-06-05 09:04

Syria's army has overrun the strategic region of Qusayr after a blistering offensive against rebel fighters, reports state television, marking a major victory for regime forces.

Ex-Bosnian Croat leader gets 25 years

2013-05-29 15:03

Former Bosnian Croat leader Jadranko Prlic has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for "ethnic cleansing" that includes the murder, rape and expulsion of Muslims from Bosnia in the 1990s.

Burial of Argentine dictator opposed

2013-05-23 14:03

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest against the possible burial of the late former dictator Jorge Videla in his home town.

Bangladesh Islamist to hang for genocide

2013-05-09 15:03

A war crimes court has sentenced a top Bangladeshi Islamist to death for masterminding the slaughter of at least 120 farmers in one of the bloodiest single episodes of the 1971 independence war.

Serbs apologise for Srebrenica massacre

2013-04-25 20:48

Serbia's nationalist President Tomislav Nikolic has personally apologised for the first time for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8 000 Muslims, but stopped short of calling it genocide.

Court sends genocide trial to new judge

2013-04-24 12:11

Guatemala's highest court has ordered that the genocide trial against one of the country's former dictators be taken over by a judge who wants the proceedings to go back to square one.

Cambodia's Khmer court to be 'downsized'

2013-04-10 15:00

Cambodia has said it would downsize its Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, following a shortage of funds that disrupted a major trial of former top regime leaders.

Rwandan warlord Ntaganda denies guilt

2013-03-26 14:17

Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda has made his first appearance before the ICC, telling the judge he is innocent of charges ranging from murder and rape to using child soldiers.

DRC war crimes suspect in ICC prison

2013-03-23 08:31

Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda is behind bars at the International Criminal Court after turning himself in to face charges ranging from murder to rape.

DRC warlord to be taken to The Hague

2013-03-21 12:00

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who turned himself in at the US embassy in Rwanda for extradition to the ICC, will be transferred to The Hague within days, the court’s chief prosecutor says.

UK inquiry shown photos of Iraq torture

2013-03-04 17:51

A public inquiry in London into allegations that UK soldiers killed, mutilated and tortured Iraqi detainees after a battle in Iraq have been shown gruesome photographs of bloodied corpses.

Britain urges Chad to arrest Bashir

2013-02-17 09:22

Britain called on Chad on Saturday to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir while he visits N'Djamena for a regional summit and to hand him over to the International Criminal Court.

Sierra Leone rebels depended on Taylor

2013-01-23 16:31

Sierra Leone's rebels depended on logistics provided by Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor to kill, rape and mutilate thousands during the west African nation's savage civil war.

ICC acquits Congolese ex-militia boss

2012-12-18 11:25

The ICC has acquitted Congolese ex-militia boss Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui of war crimes, saying prosecutors failed to prove him guilty of the murder of 200 people in 2003.

Poland to take Bosnian Serb war criminal

2012-12-06 15:01

A Polish court has agreed to allow a Bosnian Serb war criminal to serve out his sentence in Poland after he was assaulted in a British prison.

UN court acquits former Kosovo PM

2012-11-29 12:04

A UN war crimes tribunal has acquitted the former prime minister of Kosovo and two of his former Kosovo Liberation Army comrades for the second time of murdering and torturing Serbs.

UK pledges £1m to stop rape in war zones

2012-09-26 11:01

Britain has unveiled a £1m pledge to help stop sexual violence against women in war zones, where thousands of women and girls are raped every day.

Gruesome Kosovo 'organ harvesting' revealed

2012-09-11 12:05

A former Kosovo rebel witness has described in an interview how he removed a prisoner's heart for the black market in organs during the 1990s Kosovo conflict, says a report.

Blair arrest bounty pays out over £10 000

2012-08-29 21:12

Payouts for attempts to arrest former British prime minister Tony Blair now exceed £10 000, a report claims.

Ex-top cop gets 70 years for war crimes

2012-08-22 12:04

A Guatemalan court has sentenced a former police chief to 70 years in jail for ordering the kidnapping of a university student during the country's brutal civil war.

UN's Ban honours Srebrenica massacre dead

2012-07-26 12:01

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has laid flowers at the Potocari cemetery, near Srebrenica, where more than 6 500 victims of Europe's worst atrocity since World War II are buried.

Hunt for Kony lacks troops, equipment

2012-07-25 12:47

The head of a planned African Union force to hunt warlord Joseph Kony says he has not started work because he doesn't have troops or equipment.

Ratko Mladic hospitalised during trial

2012-07-12 12:34

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has been hospitalised after complaining of feeling unwell at his genocide trial.

Warlords 'keep child soldiers in slavery'

2012-07-11 08:58

More than 11 000 child soldiers were freed from military last year, but the UN belives hundreds of thousands around the world remain at the mercy of warlords like Thomas Lubanga.

Habre to be tried in Senegal – Sall

2012-06-25 16:08

Senegal's president Macky Sall says Chad’s ex-president Hissene Habre, accused of mass murder, will not be extradited to Belgium but tried in Senegal.

 

US extradites Bosnian for war crimes

2013-06-03 20:33

The US has extradited a man living in New York who is wanted on war crimes charges in Bosnia, says the justice department.

'Comfort women' cancel meeting mayor

2013-05-24 17:54

Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor.

US soldier gets life for Iraq killings

2013-05-17 11:02

An Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

US soldier pleads guilty to desertion

2013-04-30 14:35

A female soldier in the US Army has pleaded guilty to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war.

Bush 'comfortable' with Iraq decision

2013-04-25 10:09

Former US president George W Bush says he remains "comfortable" with the decision to invade Iraq, even in the midst of a new spate of bloody violence in Baghdad.

Rwanda to block war crimes court at UN

2013-04-14 22:10

The United Nations has been hit by a second war crimes court dispute in a week with Rwanda trying to stop the UN Security Council praising the International Criminal Court.

UN meeting sparks Jordanian boycott

2013-04-10 12:46

Jordan's UN ambassador has said that he is boycotting a meeting on international criminal justice organised by the president of the General Assembly, on the grounds that it is biased.

DRC 'Terminator' faces ICC judges

2013-03-26 11:41

Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda is set to appear before the ICC judges for the first time, after dramatically turning himself in to face charges ranging from murder to using child soldiers.

ICC in Kigali to transfer DRC rebel boss

2013-03-22 07:46

Experts from the ICC have arrived in Kigali to help transfer DRC warlord Bosco Ntaganda to the Netherlands to face trial, a US official says.

Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier hospitalised

2013-03-05 12:22

An attorney for Jean-Claude Duvalier has said that his client was hospitalised for an unspecified illness just after the former ruler testified in court last week.

Anger over trial of 80-year-old in China

2013-02-21 10:00

China's internet users have cried foul over the trial of an elderly man for an alleged murder decades ago during the political and social upheaval of the Cultural Revolution.

Riots as court jails Islamist for life

2013-02-05 15:04

Riots have broken out in Bangladeshi cities after a court sentenced a senior Islamist opposition leader to life in prison for mass murder during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

War criminal Taylor demands his pension

2013-01-19 21:01

Ex-President Taylor, appealing 50-year sentence for war crimes, seeks pension from Liberia

UN: LRA killed 39 in 2012

2012-12-14 11:33

The UN chief says that African warlord Joseph Kony’s militia group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, killed 39 civilians this year in the DRC and the Central African Republic.

Russia denounces UN tribunal

2012-12-06 10:01

Russia has denounced a UN tribunal for undermining international justice by freeing two Croatian generals and Kosovo's ex-prime minister who were accused of war crimes against Serbs.

Taylor should be a free man – judge

2012-11-26 07:53

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor should have walked free and not been jailed for war crimes because there was not enough evidence to prove he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, a judge says.

M23 rebels accused of war crimes

2012-09-11 22:24

A New York-based rights group says that a new rebel group in Congo is responsible for widespread war crimes.

Serbia has Kosovo organ harvesting proof

2012-09-09 18:14

Serbia says it has a witness who allegedly took part in the harvesting of organs of Serb prisoners by Kosovo Albanian rebels in the late 1990s.

Ex-Somali PM must pay $21m for torture

2012-08-29 16:33

A former Somali prime minister denied diplomatic immunity must pay $21m in damages to the victims of his alleged torture and human rights abuse, a US federal court has ruled.

Gaddafi son: Trial in Libya would be murder

2012-08-01 07:50

The son of killed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi says he wants to be tried for alleged war crimes in the Netherlands, saying a trial in Libya would be tantamount to murder.

Senegal, AU reach deal on trying Habre

2012-07-25 17:15

Senegal and the AU say they have reached a preliminary agreement on how to try a former Chadian dictator who is accused of ordering thousands of political opponents to be tortured or killed.

Taylor appeals war crimes conviction

2012-07-20 07:40

Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor has appealed his conviction for war crimes in Sierra Leone and a 50-year jail sentence imposed, the international court handling the case says.

Bosnia buries hundreds at Srebrenica

2012-07-11 18:02

Bosnia has buried 520 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, with the two alleged masterminds of the slaughter finally on trial for genocide.

Syria running 27 torture centres - report

2012-07-03 07:35

Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centres across the country where detainees are beaten, burned, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, says Human Rights Watch.

UN names Congo war crimes suspects

2012-06-19 18:32

In a rare step by the UN, top human rights official, Navi Pillay, has named five Congo rebel leaders who she says may be responsible for war crimes.

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