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 Sudan Prez: 
 No Crimes 
 in Darfur 

Says media claims are part of propaganda campaign

May 12, 09 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan’s president says his military hasn’t attacked civilians in Darfur and challenges “anybody” to show evidence to the contrary. “What has been reported to have happened in Darfur did not actually happen at all,” Omar al Bashir told the BBC in his first interview since... More »

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Africa • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • war crimes • president • Omar al Bashir • interview

(AP) - Doctors have voiced concern over "unusual" burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial US-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said today it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. The US military denied using the incendiary in a Farah province battle that President... More »

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war crimes • US military • Afghanistan war • phosphorus

 Israel Finds 
 No War Crimes 
 in Gaza Attacks 

Officials say civilian deaths isolated, unintentional

Apr 22, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Israel Defense Forces probe has found that no Gaza civilians were intentionally harmed in Israel’s recent incursion into the region, Haaretz reports. IDF colonels who weren’t involved in the fighting found that the IDF “adhered to international law and maintained a high level of professionalism and... More »

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Israel • investigation • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • war crimes • civilian casualties • Palestinians • probe • Arab Israeli conflict • report

 Sri Lanka Kills 
 1K Civilians in Raid: Rebels 

Government denies claim, says noncombatants escaped from rebel areas

Apr 21, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(AP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels said today that 1,000 civilians died in a government raid on their territory, an operation the military says freed thousands of noncombatants from the war zone. Government forces deny the accusation, and say they rescued thousands of civilians yesterday after they broke through a barrier... More »

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insurgents • Asia • war crimes • Sri Lanka • Tamil Tigers • civil war • rebels

 US Seizes Demjanjuk; 
 Court Halts Deportation 

Appeals court will consider family's claims that Demjanjuk is too frail to travel

Apr 14, 09 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk will stay in the US for at least a while longer after a federal appeals court granted him a last-minute stay of deportation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Six US immigration agents removed Demjanjuk from his home in suburban Cleveland today and drove him away... More »

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Germany • war crimes • concentration camp • Nazi • old age • Munich • John Demjanjuk

UN Picks Judge to Probe Israeli 'War Crimes'

Jewish South African will investigate allegations of abuses

Apr 3, 09 5:39 AM CDT
(AP) - The UN has named a Jewish judge from South Africa to lead a high-level mission to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, reports the AP. Richard Goldstone, the UN's former chief prosecutor for war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, will head the probe ordered by... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • war crimes • South Africa • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict

'Fugitive' Sudan Prez
Defies World Court

Al-Bashir's Saudi trip seen as effort to undermine support for international justice

Apr 2, 09 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan's president thumbed his nose at the International Criminal Court with a high-profile pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday, reports the Times of London. A ruling last month requires the court's 108 members to arrest Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity in Darfur if he enters their nations. Many see his trips... More »

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Darfur • Saudi Arabia • Sudan • war crimes • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court • arrest warrant

 Accused Nazi 
 Begs US 
 to Keep Him 

He may be deported to Germany for war crimes trial

Apr 1, 09 4:13 PM CDT
(AP) - An American resident with a reputed Nazi past is asking the US to block his deportation to Germany, citing humanitarian reasons. John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant who turns 89 this week, is charged in an arrest warrant in Germany with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • war crimes • United States • deportation • World War II • John Demjanjuk • Nazis

 Israel Defends Conduct of Gaza War

Cases of excessive force were rare, army says

Mar 27, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli army is defending its actions during the recent Gaza conflict, claiming that, contrary to reports, its soldiers did not act with excessive force or with disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians, the New York Times reports. Officials have moved to discount one story in particular: an... More »

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Israel • Gaza • war crimes • murder • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • civilians

 Israel Committed Gaza 
 War Crimes: Rights Group 

Human Rights Watch finds army fired white phosphorus at civilians

Mar 26, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's military committed war crimes by repeatedly firing white phosphorus into crowded areas of Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. A report by the group alleges that Israel chose not to use less dangerous smoke shells and even fired the incendiary agent at the main UN compound in the Strip.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • war crimes • Human Rights Watch • Arab Israeli conflict • Israeli Army • phosphorus

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Israeli Troops: We Were Ordered to Kill Gaza Civilians

Defense chief vows 'serious' investigation

Mar 20, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli soldiers' accounts about their actions in Gaza seem to back up critics' assertions that the army violated rules of war and have set off a "soul-searching" in Israel, writes Richard Boudreaux in the Los Angeles Times. The troops tell of orders to shoot civilians without warning and destroy... More »

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Israel • Gaza • war crimes • war • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinians • IDF • Israeli Army

(Newser) - The International Criminal Court today issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charging him with murder, extermination, and rape, among other war crimes and crimes against humanity, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors say orders to kill or displace tribal people in Sudan’s Darfur region, which resulted in... More »

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Africa • Darfur • Sudan • war crimes • crimes against humanity • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court • arrest warrant

 'Death-Squad' Serb 
 Was CIA Spook 

Agency submits classified document to international court in Stanisic's defense

Mar 1, 09 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A Serbian leader facing trial for organizing "ethic cleansing" death squads was a key CIA aide, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jovica Stanisic, head of intelligence for brutal Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, secretly fed information to CIA agents desperate for dirt on factions in the former Yugoslavia. While Stanisic... More »

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Serbia • CIA • war crimes • international war crimes tribunal • ethnic cleansing • Slobodan Medic • Jovica Stanisic • death squads

 UN Acquits Serb Leader 

Five others convicted of roles in Kosovo violence

Feb 26, 09 11:46 AM CST
(Newser) - A UN tribunal acquitted former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic today of war crimes during the late-1990s conflict in Kosovo, the BBC reports. Milutinovic, the titular leader of Serbia in 1997-2002, did not have direct control of the Yugoslav army during the campaign of violence committed against Kosovar Albanians, the tribunal... More »

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United Nations • Serbia • war crimes • Kosovo • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Former Yugoslavia • Milan Milutinovic

30 Years Later, Khmer Rouge Goes on Trial

Prison warden accused
of torture, murder of 20,000 in court

Feb 17, 09 5:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Thirty years after the end of its reign of terror, the Khmer Rouge went on trial in Cambodia for the first time today. In the dock in Phnom Penh is the commander of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, which became a symbol of the brutality of Pol Pot's murderous regime.... More »

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genocide • torture • war crimes • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Duch • Pol Pot • Phnom Penh • crimes against humanity

 US College 
 Suspends 
 Prof Linked 
 to Genocide 

Suspected of role in Rwanda massacre

Feb 3, 09 4:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A US college has suspended a visiting professor suspected of participating in the Rwandan genocide, reports the Baltimore Sun. Rwandan prosecutors charge that Leopold Munyakazi, who was teaching French at Goucher College in Maryland, revealed hiding places of ethnic Tutsis to machete-wielding Hutu militias. "We have tried to act... More »

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genocide • war crimes • Rwanda • Hutu • Tutsi • Goucher College • Leopold Munyakazi • Scholar Rescue Fund

Int'l Criminal Court Opens With Congo Trial

In first case, warlord pleads not guilty to using child soldiers

Jan 26, 09 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The International Criminal Court in The Hague began its first trial today, as a Congolese militia leader pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers. The court's prosecutor accused Thomas Lubanga of using hundreds of boys as young as nine "to kill, pillage, and rape" in the Democratic... More »

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war crimes • The Hague • child soldier • Democratic Republic of Congo • Congo • International Criminal Court • war crimes tribunal • Thomas Lubanga

 Israel to Back 
 Soldiers Accused 
 of War Crimes 

Government fears tribunals following civilian deaths in Gaza war

Jan 25, 09 4:35 PM CST
(AP) - Special legal teams will defend Israeli soldiers against potential war crimes charges stemming from civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today, promising the country would "fully back" those who fought in the three-week offensive. "The soldiers and commanders who were sent on missions... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • war crimes • civilian casualties • Israel and Palestinians • soldier • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • war crimes tribunal • Israel Defense Force

Gaza Conflict Triggers Talk
of War Crimes

With battles on pause, new fight begins over legality of assault

Jan 23, 09 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Now that its 22-day offensive in Gaza has ended, Israel is facing a new battle—over the legality and morality of its military action. Several human rights groups, in Israel and elsewhere, have accused the army of committing war crimes in Gaza's cities and denying medical care and refuge to... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • IDF • Israeli Army

OPINION

Every Civilian Death a Hamas War Crime

Group delights
in the deaths of its human shields

Jan 10, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - When Israelis kill civilians in Gaza, it’s Hamas that’s committing the war crime, says Alan M. Dershowitz of the LA Times. Hamas delights in using human shields, or duping Israel into returning fire at civilian targets, earning itself international sympathy with each casualty. Hamas has taken... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • war crimes • civilian casualties

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