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A U.S. diplomat said two top war crimes suspects — Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic — could be apprehended with a single phone call from Serbia's prime minister.
A departing U.N. prosecutor appealed Thursday for the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to keep its doors open until its chief fugitives are arrested and put on trial.
A Bosnian Serb general who ordered the relentless shelling, sniping and indiscriminate terror that rained down on Sarajevo during the final phase of a 44-month siege, was convicted of war crimes Wednesday and given a 33-year prison sentence.
The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months after its chaotic adjournment.
UNITED NATIONS — The outgoing Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor called Monday for the European Union to deny membership to Serbia unless the country hands over two of the most wanted war crimes suspects from the Balkan wars.
The outgoing Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor said she has given Belgrade a new deadline: Hand over fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic by Monday or she will throw a major obstacle in the way of Serbia's bid to join the European Union.
A U.N. war crimes prosecutor insisted Monday on the arrest of four long-sought fugitives whose success at eluding capture has become the biggest single obstacle to Serbia building closer ties with the European Union.
Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday rejected a Bosnian Serb's appeal of his 15-year sentence for repeatedly raping two Muslim women during the Bosnian war.
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have appealed the sentences for two Serbs convicted in the 1991 massacre of more than 190 Croats, calling them "manifestly inadequate."
Lawyers and human right groups are backing an American lawyer to be chief prosecutor at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, fearing that naming a newcomer could disrupt the court's final years.
A Congolese militia leader suspected of mass murder, rape and sexual enslavement appeared Monday at the International Criminal Court for the first time and claimed he had been illegally detained in Congo since 2005.
A former Congolese militia leader and army general accused of masterminding the massacre of 200 villagers was taken into custody Thursday at the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A former Serbian police general wanted for more than three years was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday on charges of murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said.
Survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II filed a lawsuit Monday against the United Nations and the Dutch government, saying they failed to protect civilians in Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995 and slaughtered 8,000 men.
A former Bosnian Serb general who is considered the third most wanted war crimes fugitive in the Balkans was arrested on the Bosnia-Serbia border Thursday, police said.
Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday — International Women's Day.
Thousands of former fighters, including top government figures, rallied Friday to support a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes.
NATO troops in Bosnia raided early Tuesday morning the homes of the daughter and the son of Radovan Karadzic, the U.N. tribunal's most wanted war crimes suspect at large.
An Israeli think tank with strong links to the military released videos and testimony Tuesday it said proved Hezbollah guerrillas used civilians as human shields during last summer's war in Lebanon.
Chief war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte suggested Friday the European Union take over financing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal if the United Nations cuts off funds before the court can bring its most-wanted fugitives to trial.
Three weeks after a cease-fire ended Israel's monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel is increasingly concerned that government officials and army officers traveling abroad could face war crimes charges, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
Serbian officials on Tuesday criticized U.N. prison authorities in the Netherlands for failing to prevent the suicide of a Croatian Serb convicted of ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars.
Eight former Croatian soldiers were convicted Thursday of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a trial later annulled as being flawed.
Spanish police arrested a suspected Serb hit man wanted in the murder of a Kosovo Albanian who was believed to have had evidence implicating former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in dozens of murders, authorities said Monday.
Outstanding Jewish British writer, playwright, 2005 Nobel Laureate for Literature Harold Pinter is interviewed about Art and the "real world". He excoriates horrendous violence and abuses of the US and Israel.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: in one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.
MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes. Kurt Daims of Brattleboro, Vermont, speaks Friday about his movement against Bush and Cheney.
A group of Brattleboro, Vermont, citizens want Bush and Cheney arrested and charged with war crimes if they visit this town in southeastern Vermont - 1,000 signatures needed for the Town Meeting Day agenda.
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia Ambassador Douglas Davidson is of the opinion that 12 years past the end of the1992-1995 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia, there are too many unsolved war crimes cases.
The Bush administration denies any illegality at all, insists it does not "torture" but refuses to say whether it believes waterboarding is torture or not. But hundreds of hours of videotape were recorded of Zubaydah's incarceration and torture.
Iraq's anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to act re parentless children.
Roberts: "The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, US law, and the Geneva Conventions as no previous administration has done", spying, torture, aggression, Iraqi genocide, Afghan genocide ...
The world's leaders say they care desperately about Darfur's suffering, until they get distracted.
An Israeli government minister has cancelled a trip to Britain next month after he was warned that he risked arrest on war crimes charges.
Avi Dichter, the public security minister, was invited to give the keynote speech at a counter-terrorism seminar at King's College in London in January before it was discovered that he faced arrest in Britain following legal action taken by human rights campaigners.
The Bangkok Post has always been a bastion of the free press, and they have a long history of great breaking news along with their friends at Asia Times Online. This week the front page was taken up with the Headline, Howard Faces up to 26 years in Jail.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) were informed last week that the complaint filed on October, 25, 2007 aga …
The new Rudd Labor Australian Government (sworn in on Monday 3 December) will only PARTLY remove Australian forces from Iraq, making Rudd Australia complicit in the continuing Iraqi Genocide (excess deaths 1.5-2 million).
But it's been the excesses of the Bush administration, especially at "Gitmo," that have thrust Ratner and what was once a radical legal shop into the international spotlight.
In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic's forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing.
US war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they're planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.
Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee have been ordered not to tell their client — or anyone else — the identity of witnesses against him.
"The actual number of people who have been killed [in Iraq] is most likely more than one million. This is five times more than the estimates of killings in Darfur and even more than the genocide in Rwanda"
There you go, Playboy dared to publish an article that criticize Israel and had the courage to describe what Israel does as war crimes.
Professor Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, US Rep to executive committee of the American Association of Jurists - how to stop impending Iran War.
# Updated information indicates that since fuel supplies have been cut, every day, on a rotating basis, 50,000 residents are not receiving clean water to their homes because there is not enough fuel to operate the generators that help power Gaza's water wells. # In total, becaus …
One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy...
John Pilger: "Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq - a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced ... holocaust denial"
Amnesty International's "Unsubscribe Me" campaign invites us to unsubscribe from the use of torture in fighting the "war on terror;" to tell the world's governments that torture cannot be done in our name.
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