• On 13 April 2022, OSCE published a report finding Russia guilty of war crimes in the Mariupol hospital airstrike, while its targeted killings and enforced disappearance or abductions of civilians, including journalists and local officials, could tentatively also be crimes against humanity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main strategy in the Russian war effort was to use heavy artillery and air strikes, leading to numerous indiscriminate attacks on civilians. (wikipedia.org)
  • The crimes included the use of prohibited cluster bombs in the 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack, which targeted a market, a gas station and a hospital, and the April 1995 Samashki massacre, in which it is estimated that up to 300 civilians died during the attack. (wikipedia.org)
  • "The US claims to respect human rights, but the wars of aggression launched by the US and its allies … killed over 300,000 civilians and made over 26 million people refugees," he continued. (rt.com)
  • A British soldier has become the first to admit to a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians, at a court martial. (bbc.co.uk)
  • There are concrete indications that war crimes may have already been committed, in particular war crimes involving the use of prohibited methods of warfare against Ukrainian civilians as well as civilian objects," the statement said. (cnn.com)
  • In Vietnam, its publicly-avowed strategy was to attack civilians, since it was waging war against a whole people. (greenleft.org.au)
  • But the war is now mainly remembered for its ending, with the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. (voltairenet.org)
  • Russia has denied targeting civilians or involvement in war crimes. (bbc.com)
  • Torture, the killing of civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are also suspected war crimes, she added. (bbc.com)
  • A documentary aired on ABC1's Four Corners on Monday night showed allegations of rape, torture and murder of civilians during Sri Lanka's civil war. (abc.net.au)
  • In a new report, 'Children': The Attack on the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine , the organization documents how the Russian military likely deliberately targeted the theatre despite knowing hundreds of civilians were sheltering there on 16 March, making the attack a clear war crime. (amnesty.org)
  • Using the horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed factions as an excuse to justify Israel's crimes in general and the massacre in Gaza in particular is unacceptable,' said Spain's minister of social rights. (commondreams.org)
  • Using the horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed factions as an excuse to justify Israel's crimes in general and the massacre in Gaza in particular is unacceptable,' Ione Belarra, the leader of Spain's left-wing Podemos party, said in a video statement posted to social media. (commondreams.org)
  • This includes war crimes charges for Hamas's repeated rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and cities. (freebeacon.com)
  • Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime,' Blinken said during a press conference at the State Department. (cnbc.com)
  • Human Rights Watch previously accused Israel of war crimes for strikes that killed dozens of civilians despite 'no evident military targets in the vicinity' during the conflict that ended with a May 21 ceasefire. (ynetnews.com)
  • Eritrean troops allied with Ethiopia's government 'committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity' in Tigray, raping, enslaving and executing civilians for months after the signing of a peace agreement, Amnesty International said Tuesday. (yahoo.com)
  • Russian war crimes are the violations of the international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official armed and paramilitary forces of the Russian Federation are accused of committing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not to be confused with Crimes against humanity . (wikipedia.org)
  • It defined command responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as stated the military responsibilities of the Union soldier fighting the Confederate States of America . (wikipedia.org)
  • Following years of killings, rape, and other grave international crimes by Sudanese security forces in the western region of Darfur, the International Criminal Court issued two arrest warrants for al-Bashir, in 2009 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and in 2010 on charges of genocide. (hrw.org)
  • Yet, no one is held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (rt.com)
  • Critics described the attacks as a "massacre" or relied on the language of war crimes and crimes against humanity. (voltairenet.org)
  • Nairobi) - South Sudanese leaders should not undermine their efforts to bring an end to the country's devastating conflict with an amnesty for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said. (hrw.org)
  • International law requires prosecuting those responsible for serious crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes, to ensure victims' rights to truth, justice, and an effective remedy, along with combating impunity. (hrw.org)
  • The ruling observed that it was the Jamaat-e-Islami that formed al-Badr, al-Shams and several other armed organisations to commit crimes against humanity across the country in 1971. (thehindu.com)
  • The ICC prosecutes the most serious violations, such as genocides and crimes against humanity. (10news.com)
  • Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovos war for independence, has resigned in order to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued by at a special court based in The Hague, Netherlands. (news4jax.com)
  • PRISTINA - The president of Kosovo, who served as a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, resigned Thursday and was sent to a special court in The Hague where he will face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (news4jax.com)
  • The serious violations documented in this report amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity,' the rights watchdog said. (yahoo.com)
  • At The Hague, the International Criminal Court is investigating Vladimir Putin for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (medscape.com)
  • The Israeli occupation forces have perpetrated crimes against humanity, breaching international and humanitarian laws. (who.int)
  • Nuremberg Code pdf icon external icon - The ethical guideline written as a result of World War II Nazi war crimes against humanity. (cdc.gov)
  • Researching and creating diseases instead of promoting health is a crime against humanity. (cdc.gov)
  • During last year's Gaza conflict, which took place in July and August, Hamas used the chaos to settle scores and carry out "horrific abuses … some of which amount to war crimes" against fellow Palestinians, said Philip Luther, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Amnesty International. (cnn.com)
  • The 575-page report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in Gaza - compiled by the respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone - has largely overshadowed an aggressive U.S. drive to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. (foxnews.com)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aware that the proceedings could lead to war crimes trials against Israeli leaders, opened a keynote address to parliament this week by vowing never to allow that to happen and characterizing Israel's actions in Gaza as self-defense. (foxnews.com)
  • In my view, what made the Gaza attacks launched on 27 December different from the main wars fought by Israel over the years was that the weapons and tactics used devastated an essentially defenceless civilian population. (voltairenet.org)
  • Spain's minister of social rights released a statement Monday calling on her country's coalition government to petition the International Criminal Court to open a war crimes investigation into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the ongoing aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the devastating blockade that has prevented the free flow of desperately needed humanitarian aid. (commondreams.org)
  • Deadly rocket and mortar fire on Israeli cities by Palestinian militant groups during a May conflict in and around Gaza constituted war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. (ynetnews.com)
  • The group suggested the International Criminal Court, which is investigating allegations of Israeli war crimes, should include 'unlawful Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel, as well as unlawful Israeli attacks in Gaza. (ynetnews.com)
  • There have always been widespread human rights violations and direct physical violence, but the amount of destruction and death and injury to Palestinians in the ongoing war in Gaza is unprecedented, writes Nina Gren. (lu.se)
  • Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have recorded Russian war crimes in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • OHCHR also found Russia guilty of war crimes in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a consequence of its involvement in the war in Ukraine, wide-scale international sanctions have been imposed against Russian officials twice in 2014 and 2022 by Western countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a result, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3 officially suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council membership due to war crimes in Ukraine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many Russian officials were found guilty by local courts for war crimes committed in both Chechnya and Ukraine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ultimately, in 2023 the ICC indicted Russian leader Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Kremlin's war continues to wreak havoc on Ukraine and its people, with dire consequences for those who continue to stand for justice and tell the truth about its brutality,' Porter said. (voanews.com)
  • Britain will deploy a team of war crimes experts to support Ukraine with investigations into Russian atrocities, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced Friday during a visit to The Hague, Netherlands. (voanews.com)
  • Germany's federal prosecutor has opened a so-called ''structural investigation'' into suspected war crimes committed by Russian troops since the invasion of Ukraine, the prosecutor's office told CNN on Tuesday. (cnn.com)
  • Cluster bombs have allegedly been used by both sides in the war in Ukraine. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The United States has accused Russia of war crimes in its invasion of Ukraine, and brought charges to the International Criminal Court (ICC). (greenleft.org.au)
  • While Russia's war against Ukraine was a violation of that country's sovereignty, Biden's raising of war crimes charges against Russia is the height of hypocrisy. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at an online summit of the Core Group international coalition of May 9 d edicated to the issue of establishing a special tribunal to investigate numerous Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • All 37 participants of the summit 'confirmed their resolve to hold Russia's top leadership accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine,' Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote later on Twitter. (yahoo.com)
  • Around 15,000 suspected war crimes have been reported in Ukraine since the war began, with 200 to 300 more reported daily, its chief prosecutor said. (bbc.com)
  • The International Criminal Court described Ukraine as a 'crime scene' and has despatched its largest team of investigators ever to Ukraine to assist in the investigations. (bbc.com)
  • Has Russia carried out war crimes in Ukraine? (bbc.com)
  • An extensive investigation by Amnesty International has concluded that Russian military forces committed a war crime when they struck the Mariupol drama theatre in Ukraine in March, killing at least dozen people and likely many more. (amnesty.org)
  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that he believes Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine. (cnbc.com)
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press about the war in Ukraine, at the State Department in Washington, DC, March 17, 2022. (cnbc.com)
  • President Biden said that, in his opinion, war crimes have been committed in Ukraine. (cnbc.com)
  • On Wednesday, President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin 'a war criminal' for his unprovoked assault on Ukraine. (cnbc.com)
  • Also on Wednesday, the UN's top court ruled in favor of Ukraine and ordered Russia to immediately suspend its ongoing war . (cnbc.com)
  • The International Criminal Court in March announced that it was issuing an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring that he is "allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation" of children from occupied areas of Ukraine. (businessinsider.com)
  • On Thursday, the head of the ICC, Krim A. A. Khan, was in Kyiv to mark the opening of the new office following the signing of a cooperation agreement in March, under which Ukraine will share evidence it has gathered of possible Russian war crimes. (businessinsider.com)
  • Today marks a pivotal stride in our journey towards restoring justice," Kostin wrote in a post on social media, saying Ukraine would provide access to witnesses and alleged crime scenes. (businessinsider.com)
  • The United Nations has appointed a commission to investigate possible war crimes in Ukraine. (lex18.com)
  • The International Criminal Court, the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as ten countries have started investigations into the war in Ukraine. (lex18.com)
  • Not a single person has been held accountable for the crimes committed by Hamas forces against Palestinians during the 2014 conflict, indicating that these crimes were either ordered or condoned by the authorities," Amnesty said. (cnn.com)
  • JERUSALEM - A U.N. war crimes report against Israel and Hamas meant to promote justice and accountability has instead created new obstacles for the Obama administration's Mideast peace push and deepened an internal rift among Palestinians. (foxnews.com)
  • Israel is not a member state of the ICC, but the top prosecutor for the Netherlands-based court told Reuters last week that war crimes carried out by Hamas and the Israeli government fall under the body's jurisdiction. (commondreams.org)
  • Hamas is holding on to the bodies of murdered Israeli soldiers, which also constitutes a war crime, according to the ILF's complaint. (freebeacon.com)
  • Read and listen to CMES researchers' media interviews and articles on the war between Israel and Hamas. (lu.se)
  • CMES researcher Nina Gren and CMES affiliated researcher Isabell Schierenbeck have been interviewed about how the Israel-Hamas war affects academia. (lu.se)
  • This accusation also extends to the aiding and abetting of crimes which have been committed by quasi-states or puppet states which are armed and financed by Russia, including the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2017 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has reported that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons in Syria, constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued 115 verdicts (including the virdict in the Baysayeva v. Russia case) finding the Russian government guilty of enforced disappearances, murder, torture, and for failing to properly investigate these crimes in Chechnya. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, tensions between Russia and Chechnya still existed and they continued to escalate until the second war broke out in 1999, and Russia waged counterinsurgency until 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alleged war crimes in the region include the possible forcible transfer of people - including cases of adults and children - to different parts of Russia, Ms Venediktova said. (bbc.com)
  • Human rights lawyers working with Ukraine's public prosecutor are preparing a war crimes dossier to submit to the international criminal court (ICC) accusing Russia of deliberately causing starvation during the 18-month-long conflict. (yahoo.com)
  • Part of the lawyers' effort will be to identify perpetrators, including whether to call for the indictment of Putin as happened in March when the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the president for overseeing the "unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children to Russia from territories occupied during the war. (yahoo.com)
  • War crimes investigators opened an office in Kyiv on Thursday to investigate allegations that Russia has been abducting children . (businessinsider.com)
  • In the past Israeli uses of force were often widely condemned, especially by Arab governments, including charges that the UN Charter was being violated, but there was an implicit acknowledgement that Israel was using force in a war mode. (voltairenet.org)
  • The early Israeli wars were fought against Arab neighbours which were quite literally challenging Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state. (voltairenet.org)
  • The legacy of the 1982 war was Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon and the formation of Hizbullah in reaction, mounting an armed resistance that finally led to a shamefaced Israeli withdrawal in 1998. (voltairenet.org)
  • In the last 75 years, since the first Israeli-Arab war and the mass expulsion of Palestinians that followed, al-Nakba, many Palestinians have become experts in recovery. (lu.se)
  • The aim is to document instances where the Russian invaders used hunger as a weapon of war, providing evidence for the ICC to launch the first prosecution of its kind that could indict the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. (yahoo.com)
  • He called for a war crimes trial to be held against Russian President Vladimir Putin. (10news.com)
  • [1] In the aftermath of the Second World War, the war-crime trials of the leaders of the Axis powers established the Nuremberg principles of law, such as that international criminal law defines what is a war crime. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earlier this month, Abbas' government agreed to delay a vote in Geneva that would have moved the Goldstone report up the U.N. hierarchy, the first of many steps toward possible war crimes trials. (foxnews.com)
  • Hidden histories of war crimes trials (pp. 163-192). (bvsalud.org)
  • Torture and cruel treatment of detainees in an armed conflict is a war crime, Luther said. (cnn.com)
  • Could Putin face war crimes trial? (10news.com)
  • She noted that there is a separate legal process underway at the State Department to determine whether Putin violated international law and committed war crimes. (cnbc.com)
  • Some scholars has estimated that the brutality of the Russian attacks on such a small ethnic group amounts to a crime of genocide. (wikipedia.org)
  • The suspect was transferred from Niger to the ICC, under accusation for the war crime set forth in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , Article 8 (2)(e)(iv), which qualifies as war crimes direct attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, and historic monuments. (unesco.org)
  • Throughout the First Chechen War, human rights organizations accused Russian forces of starting a brutal war with total disregard for international humanitarian law, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary civilian casualties among the Chechen population. (wikipedia.org)
  • This set the stage for the 2006 Lebanon war in which the announced adversary was Hizbullah, and the combat zone inevitably merged portions of the Lebanese civilian population with the military campaign undertaken to destroy Hizbullah. (voltairenet.org)
  • Whether or not this amounts to a war crime, the revelation, if proved, will serve as an embarrassment to the Alliance, which stressed its efforts to avoid civilian deaths. (independent.co.uk)
  • The UCMJ applies equally to all detained or interned personnel, whether their status is that of prisoner of war, civilian internee, or any other. (antiwar.com)
  • Under international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, warring parties may only attack military objectives,' Human Rights Watch said, adding, 'launching such rockets to attack civilian areas is a war crime. (ynetnews.com)
  • In 1474, the first trial for a war crime was that of Peter von Hagenbach , realised by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire , for his command responsibility for the actions of his soldiers, because "he, as a knight, was deemed to have a duty to prevent" criminal behaviour by a military force. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is important to investigate these crimes, which is why I unequivocally support the creation of the tribunal," Pavel said. (yahoo.com)
  • A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal on Thursday handed down the death penalty to another Jamaat-e-Islami leader for offences committed during the Liberation War in 1971. (thehindu.com)
  • The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) held Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary-general of Jamaat, guilty on five counts of mass killings, rape, torture and kidnapping. (thehindu.com)
  • One of the primary goals of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal - beyond the obvious one of punishing the guilty - is public education. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • I t is important to note that U.S. policy with regard to the treatment accorded to prisoners of war and all other enemy personnel captured, interned, or otherwise held in U.S. custody during the course of a conflict requires and directs that all such personnel be accorded humanitarian care and treatment from the moment of custody until final release or repatriation. (antiwar.com)
  • For the first time since the establishment of Israel in 1948 the government is facing serious allegations of war crimes from respected public figures throughout the world. (voltairenet.org)
  • Earlier this year a panel of experts convened by United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki Moon reported that it had found "credible allegations" of war crimes on both sides. (greenleft.org.au)
  • A structural investigation does not target particular suspects, Germany's federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe said, but it aims to gather evidence of the suspected crimes and identify the structures behind them. (cnn.com)
  • Australian politicians are calling for an international investigation of apparent war crimes in Sri Lanka. (abc.net.au)
  • Both sides are accused of war crimes and this is exactly why we need an independent international investigation to find out the truth,' she said. (abc.net.au)
  • After months of rigorous investigation, analysis of satellite imagery and interviews with dozens of witnesses, we concluded that the strike was a clear war crime committed by Russian forces," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's Secretary General. (amnesty.org)
  • It also raised questions about whether reliance on a military option was even relevant to Israel's political goals, as Hizbullah emerged from the war stronger, and the only real result was to damage the reputation of the IDF as a fighting force and to leave southern Lebanon devastated. (voltairenet.org)
  • Why is the U.S. Exempt from Afghan War Crimes Prosecutions? (freespeech.org)
  • Recent examples include Syria, where the Bashar Assad government was accused of pursuing a "kneel or starve" strategy to force opposition areas into submission during the country's civil war - and in Tigray, Ethiopia where 2 million people were estimated to be suffering from a shortage of food from 2020, stemming from a government blockade of the rebel province. (yahoo.com)
  • Kosovo president Hashim Thaci addresses the nation as he announced his resignation to face war crimes charges in Kosovo capital Pristina on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (news4jax.com)
  • Rights groups said the directive could amount to the war crime of forcible transfer, given that Gazans have been given no guarantee of safe passage or clear assurance that they will be able to return to their homes. (commondreams.org)
  • The international community has applied diplomatic pressure to authorities in the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and elsewhere to capture and hand over fugitive war crimes indictees, including former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. (rferl.org)
  • On August 8, President Salva Kiir offered a " general amnesty " to heads of armed groups involved in the nation's five-year civil war as part of the agreement to end the fighting. (hrw.org)
  • While South Sudan's leaders may aim to provide assurances to opponents, they should make clear that the amnesty does not cover grave crimes by all parties since the conflict began. (hrw.org)
  • The African Commission on Human and People's Rights has also rejected amnesty for serious crimes. (hrw.org)
  • Human Rights Watch has previously urged mediators and South Sudanese leaders to ensure that peace deals did not include any amnesty for serious crimes. (hrw.org)
  • Interview with CMES researchers Nina Gren and Svante Lundgren about suspected war crimes in Israel and Palestine. (lu.se)
  • Agent Orange was also debilitating to US troops - which Washington considered cannon fodder, until they revolted and ended the war. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Of the 15,000 alleged war crimes, Ms Veneditkova said several thousand had been identified in the eastern Donbas region - the scene of fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops. (bbc.com)
  • Sounds unbelievable, until you consider this short clip from CNN, which shows a war crime being committed by U.S. troops in Iraq. (antiwar.com)
  • Dubbed the 'North Korea' of Africa , Eritrea was sanctioned by the United States in 2021 after sending troops into Tigray in support of Ethiopia's federal forces, with its soldiers accused of murder, rape and looting during the two-year war. (yahoo.com)
  • In the case of its ally Sri Lanka it did not need to send troops to win the war against Tamils struggles for liberation. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • and intervened covertly or by proxy in many parts of the world, committing war crimes and violations of sovereignty. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Leahy, who was chief of staff to presidents Roosevelt and Truman, called the atomic bombings violations of "every Christian ethic I have ever heard of and all of the known laws of war. (truthout.org)
  • An independent report published by Middle Eastern human rights groups says there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations were committed by all the participants - Nato, rebel forces and those loyal to Colonel Gaddafi - in last year's Libyan uprising. (independent.co.uk)
  • In effect, all U.S. soldiers, up to and including their commander in chief, who commit these violations, like the man in the aforementioned clip and the ones responsible for what my Iraqi friend reports from Ramadi, are war criminals. (antiwar.com)
  • The UCMJ clearly states that violations of this Code may result in an individual being prosecuted as a war criminal, and that anyone observing a violation of law, or suspecting one has happened, has a positive legal obligation to report it to appropriate authorities. (antiwar.com)
  • Instead he tried to get the students to debate broad concepts, such as the definition of a war crime or the phenomenon of genocide denial or the raping of women. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In 1949, the Geneva Conventions legally defined new war crimes and established that states could exercise universal jurisdiction over war criminals. (wikipedia.org)
  • 20 November 2005 -- Bosnian Serb police detained Andjelko Teodorovic, who is suspected of war crimes in neighboring Croatia, early today in the western Bosnian Serb town of Gradiska. (rferl.org)
  • Situated close to the border with Serbia, Bijeljina had a 34 percent Muslim population prior to the war, but was 'ethnically cleansed' and is now overwhelmingly Serb. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - Kosovo prosecutors have issued war crimes charges against an ethnic Serb suspected of killing and torturing ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war. (ksl.com)
  • The 1998-99 war in Kosovo, then a province in Serbia, ended following a 78-day NATO bombing campaign against a bloody Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian nationalists. (ksl.com)
  • Scott sounded relieved, Ferguson exhausted, and both didn't want to talk on the record about what had just been unleashed, but it's something Scott had kept inside him since May 3, 2017: Eddie Gallagher didn't murder the seriously wounded teenage Islamic State prisoner of war hauled into the SEAL compound near Mosul. (navytimes.com)
  • One of the lessons of World War II is that leaders can go to prison for their wartime atrocities. (hrw.org)
  • In the past Germany has repeatedly prosecuted atrocities committed abroad, including the war crimes in Syria. (cnn.com)
  • In both school and home and through the media, Muslim students learn that Serbs began the war, and committed terrible atrocities. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Despite provisions in the August 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS) that envision a hybrid court to prosecute international crimes, South Sudan's transitional government has not made genuine progress toward setting up the court. (hrw.org)
  • Seif al-Islam is at the center of a wrangle between the international court and the new government in Tripoli, both of which have drawn up plans to prosecute him for alleged war crimes. (foxnews.com)
  • But the ICC indicted Seif al-Islam before the fall of his father's regime and cannot drop his case until it is convinced that Libya's new government will prosecute him for the same crimes - and that it is capable of giving him a fair trial. (foxnews.com)
  • and even when Israel exhibited its military superiority in the June 1967 six day war, it was treated within the framework of normal world politics, and though it may have been unlawful, it was not criminal. (voltairenet.org)
  • These tensions ultimately escalated into a full-scale war when 25,000 Russian soldiers crossed into Chechnya on 11 December 1994. (wikipedia.org)
  • The war ended with de facto Chechen independence and a Russian troop withdrawal in 1996. (wikipedia.org)
  • Numerous war crimes were committed, most of them were committed by the Russian armed forces. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Russian armed forces perpetrated numerous war crimes. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's very clear that Russian forces have committed war crimes,' Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters at a daily briefing. (voanews.com)
  • His mother's friend told him crimes that they have heard, "There have been a lot of reports of rape and a dark trend where the Russian soldiers just shave women's heads. (10news.com)
  • There's a track record as to the Russian way of war, which is total war," he says. (10news.com)
  • ICC investigators are gathering evidence of alleged Russian war crimes, including child abduction. (businessinsider.com)
  • The report, published today by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights together and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights with the International Legal Assistance Consortium, follows extensive fact-finding work carried out by law and war crimes experts. (independent.co.uk)
  • The International Legal Forum (ILF), an advocacy group representing more than 3,500 lawyers and civil society activists across the globe, is pressing the ICC to investigate the Palestinian Authority for war crimes in the first ever case of this nature presented to the court, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon . (freebeacon.com)
  • The inhumane treatment of persons charge faced by the three is being brought as a war crime charge under the International Criminal Court Act (ICCA) 2001. (bbc.co.uk)
  • South Sudan has also ratified treaties such as the Convention against Torture, which provide for prosecution of people allegedly responsible for serious crimes. (hrw.org)
  • Israel blamed its earlier wars on the threat to its security, even that against Lebanon in 1982. (voltairenet.org)
  • Because the United Nations takes the position that amnesties cannot be granted for serious crimes under international law, it will not endorse peace agreements that provide for such amnesties. (hrw.org)
  • The NYT said on April 18: "As the war approaches its eighth week, both sides have relied heavily on artillery and rocket fire to dislodge each other. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Separately, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said last November that Nato forces would be investigated along with the two Libyan sides of the conflict for breaches of the laws of war. (independent.co.uk)
  • But they have been given a renewed emphasis after the passage of a UN security council resolution in 2018 which condemned the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and revisions to the ICC's governing Rome statute in 2019, to expand the type of cases that can be brought. (yahoo.com)
  • The intention is to make a filing under article 15 of the Rome statute, allowing third parties to send information on alleged war crimes to the ICC's prosecutor. (yahoo.com)
  • Most of the people who died in the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo were ethnic Albanians, and 1,641 people are still unaccounted for. (news4jax.com)
  • Yet hosting a war crimes suspect doesn't seem to be problem. (hrw.org)
  • I commend Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the authorities of Mali and Niger for transferring the first suspect to the ICC accused of the war crime of the intentional destruction of historic monuments and buildings in Timbuktu, Mali," said the Director-General. (unesco.org)
  • The indictment was filed by an international prosecutor linked to a special Kosovo court based in The Hague, Netherlands, which was set up five years ago to investigate and try former ethnic Albanian rebel leaders for alleged war crimes. (news4jax.com)
  • War itself always involves horrors but even in war there are laws, and international humanitarian law and international human rights law provides that even in war certain actions are not permissible,' she said. (abc.net.au)
  • War crimes charges (to the extent they were made) came only from radical governments and the extreme left. (voltairenet.org)
  • The Lieber Code was written early in the American Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln issued as General Order 100 on April 24, 1863 just months after the military executions at Mankato, Minnesota . (wikipedia.org)
  • The US even announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court who would investigate the war crimes of the US military. (rt.com)
  • As a matter of principle countries should have the courage and confidence to allow a fair examination of their military conduct and to give justice where crimes against international law are committed,' she said. (abc.net.au)
  • The Western powers provided Sri Lankan governments military with weaponry, war intelligence and training to win the long war against Tamil nationhood. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Rodríguez ridiculed the US position given that, as he said, 40% of military hardware sold to Sri Lankan governments between 1983 and 2009 (the duration of the war for liberation) came from it and its closest allies, the UK and Israel. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The Sinhalese governments spent between 7 and 17% of their budgets on the military during the war. (dissidentvoice.org)