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Saddam Aide Begins Trial
in Baghdad

Former top diplomat Aziz faces death for executing merchants

Apr 29, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of Saddam Hussein’s former deputy prime minister began today in Baghdad, the New York Times reports. Tariq Aziz could get the death penalty for ordering the 1992 execution of more than 40 Iraqi merchants accused of price-gouging. The judge, however, has adjourned until May 20 because of... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • war crimes • execution • Chemical Ali • Ali Hassan al Majid • Tariq Aziz

Facebook Used to Search for Darfur Criminals

Men indicted on 51 counts in genocide remain at large

Apr 25, 08 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A humanitarian group is using Facebook to search for two war criminals involved with genocide in Darfur, the BBC reports. The War Crimes Watch List issued an open call on the social network for sightings of Ahmed Haroun and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, who face 51 counts of crimes... More »

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Darfur • war crimes • Facebook • Crisis in Darfur • political activism • online activism • War Crimes Watch List

UN Official: Guerrillas Killed Serb Prisoners for Organs

Former UN war crimes prosecutor alleges organ-harvesting happened during 1999 war

Apr 12, 08 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kosovan guerrillas killed Serb prisoners and harvested their organs for profit during Balkan fighting nearly a decade ago, according to the former UN prosecutor for war crimes in Yugoslavia. Carla del Ponte alleges that guerrillas trucked 300 captured Serbs over the border to a makeshift clinic in Albania, removed their... More »

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organ harvesting • war crimes • Kosovo • Albania • organ trafficking • Yugoslavia • Balkans • Serbs

Former Kosovo Leader Acquitted
of War Crimes

Ex PM cleared of attacks on ethnic Serbs

Apr 4, 08 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The UN's tribunal in the Hague has acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes. Ramush Haradinaj, who also briefly served as the breakaway province's prime minister, was cleared of murder, persecution, rape and torture of Kosovo Serb civilians. The verdict threatens... More »

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Serbia • war crimes • Kosovo • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Ethnic Serbs • Ramush Haradinaj

OPINION

This Is What a War Criminal Looks Like

Newly released docs show ex-deputy AG's 'depraved criminality'

Apr 2, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Yoo, who as deputy AG wrote a crucial memo justifying torture, is a war criminal, Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald bluntly argues: Newly released documents reveal "a government official who, in concert with other government officials, set out to enable a brutal and systematic torture regime, and did so.... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • war crimes • John Yoo • moral authority • Berkeley Law School • torture memo

Brits Bust
Quiet Locksmith Suspected in
'91 War Crimes

Serb linked to brutal Balkan war massacres

Mar 26, 08 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A locksmith living quietly in northern England has been arrested for involvement in one of the most notorious massacres of the Balkan wars, reports the Times of London. Milorad Pejic, an ethnic Serb who now holds a British passport, faces trial for war crimes during the 87-day siege of Vukovar,... More »

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Serbia • war crimes • Croatia • ethnic cleansing • Vukovar • Balkans War • Milorad Pejic

EU Force Set for Kosovo
on Eve of Independence

2,000 police and judges to help smooth transition

Feb 16, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - As Kosovo stands poised to declare independence from Serbia, the European Union is preparing to send a civilian police and justice mission to help enforce the rule of law in the fledgling country. The US and most of the EU support Kosovar independence; Serbia and Russia oppose it, but will... More »

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Russia • Serbia • European Union • war crimes • Kosovo • corruption • human rights abuse • Kosovar independence

Waterboarding Violates UN Torture Law

Official urges nations
to prosecute, but
doesn't point finger

Feb 8, 08 11:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A top UN official said today that CIA waterboarding constitutes a war crime, but she stopped short of accusing Washington directly. "I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of torture," Louise Arbour said. Her comment comes days after CIA chief Michael... More »

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War on Terror • torture • war crimes • Michael Hayden • waterboarding • Louise Arbour • UN Commission on Human Rights

'Blood Diamonds' Trial Opens

War crimes court pleads for cash in case against former Liberian president

Jan 7, 08 3:29 AM CST
(Newser) - The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor is set to begin in The Hague after months of costly delays—forcing the court to ask for financial handouts to complete the proceedings. Taylor, 59, trained Sierra Leone's notoriously violent Revolutionary United Front in exchange for "blood diamonds,... More »

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war crimes • murder • rape • Charles Taylor • Sierra Leone • Liberia • crimes against humanity • blood diamonds • The Special Court for Sierra Leone • Stephen Rapp • Revolutionary United Front

Aussie Gitmo Convict Freed From Prison

Hicks served out sentence for aiding al-Qaeda in homeland

Dec 28, 07 5:13 PM CST
(Newser) - David Hicks, who pleaded guilty to aiding al-Qaeda in a US military court at Guantanamo, walked free from a jail in his native Australia on Saturday local time after finishing his sentence. Hicks, 32, was captured fighting alongside Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and served 5 years at Gitmo... More »

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David Hicks • war crimes • Guantanamo Bay

Serb General Convicted of War Crimes

Commander whose troops shelled
Sarajevo gets 33 years

Dec 12, 07 9:41 AM CST
(Newser) - The United Nations tribunal at the Hague has convicted a Bosnian Serb general of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other charges, and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. Dragomir Milosevic commanded his troops to shell Sarajevo and fire at bystanders during the siege of the Bosnian capital, where... More »

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Bosnia • Serbia • war crimes • international war crimes tribunal • Slobodan Milosevic • Sarajevo

UN Convicts Serbian Officer of War Crimes

Tribunal's verdict draws fire from Croatia for 'shocking' leniency

Sep 28, 07 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Serb officer was convicted yesterday of aiding and abetting murder and torture, and sentenced to 20 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, enraging Croatians, the Times of London reports. The case concerned the 1991 massacre at Vukovar, a Croatian town where hundreds of... More »

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Serbia • war crimes • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Croatia • Vukovar

UN Chief to Visit Darfur Camp

Ban wants to witness plight first hand

Sep 5, 07 5:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit a refugee camp in Darfur to see for himself the plight of displaced people there and conditions facing UN peace keepers who will arrive next year. Ban, who's in Sudan on an official visit, is playing a double role, encouraging the Sudanese... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • war crimes • refugee camp • civil war • African Union • peacekeeping force • Juba • Salva Kiir • Ban Ki-Moon

Soldier Draws 110 Years for Rape, Murder

Coconspirators handed tough sentences for young girl's death

Aug 5, 07 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A military court handed Jesse Spielman a dishonorable discharge and a 110-year prison sentence for raping and murdering an Iraqi girl last year. Spielman and four comrades planned the 2006 assault on a family near Baghdad over a drunken game of cards; they then gang-raped and murdered the girl, her... More »

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Iraq • military • war crimes • murder • rape • court • sentencing • soldier • Jesse Spielman • death sentence

Sierra Leone Tribunal Convicts 3

War crimes court first to rule against use of child soldiers

Jun 20, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UN-backed Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal handed down its first verdicts today, convicting three leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The rebel leaders face lengthy prison terms after being convicted of 11 of 14 charges, including murder, rape, and the recruitment... More »

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war crimes • Charles Taylor • Sierra Leone • civil war • tribunal • child soldier • international court • blood diamonds

Ex-UN Head Waldheim
Dead at 88

Military service under Nazis shadowed Austrian president

Jun 15, 07 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Haunted by his World War II German army service to the end, former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim died yesterday at 88. Reports that he served in a German army unit that committed atrocities during the war emerged in 1985, during his successful campaign for the Austrian presidency; at his death,... More »

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United Nations • Germany • war crimes • obituary • Austria • Kurt Waldheim • Nazi

Former Serb Leader Guilty
of War Crimes

Led ethnic cleansing
of non-Serbs in early-90s Croatia

Jun 12, 07 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Serb rebel leader Milan Martic has been convicted of murder and other atrocities in Croatia in the early 1990s and sentenced to 35 years in jail. The international war crimes tribunal in the Hague found Martic guilty of ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs when he was leader of the so-called... More »

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Bosnia • Serbia • war crimes • Milan Martic • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Krajina Serb Republic • Croatia • Slobodan Milosevic

Charles Taylor Skips War Crimes Trial

Former President of Liberia accused
of atrocities in Sierra Leone

Jun 4, 07 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, didn't show up for the opening of his  war-crimes trial in The Hague today, the BBC reports. He is accused of fostering a long bloody civil war in Sierra Leone marked by crimes against humanity, terrorism, rape and the use of child soldiers.... More »

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Africa • war crimes • The Hague • Charles Taylor • Sierra Leone • civil war • trial • Liberia

Bosnian War Crimes Suspect Captured

Wanted in 1995  massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys

Jun 1, 07 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the most-wanted war criminals in the world—a suspect in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims —has been arrested in Bosnia. Zdravko Tolimir, a 58-year-old Bosnian Serb, was a close aide of Ratko Mladic, the general who led the slaughter, who is still a fugitive,... More »

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Bosnia • war crimes • The Hague • war • massacre • Belgrade • criminal • Srebrenica • Zdravko Tolimir • Ratko Mladic • fugitive

Taliban Video
Shows Young Boy Beheading Prisoner

Preteen appears to execute Pakistani militant; international outcry follows

Apr 25, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - International outrage is building over a Taliban video in which a preteen boy appears to behead a prisoner. The Guardian reports that the boy, who "appears no older than 12," denounces the man, a Pakistani militant, as an "American spy" in a high-pitched voice before apparently using... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • human rights • war crimes • beheading • militant

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