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NEWS ABOUT: crimes against humanity

crimes against humanity stories: 15 news summaries

 Israel Committed 
 War Crimes in Gaza: 
 UN Report 

Fact-finding mission recommends world court prosecutor take action

Sep 29, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel committed "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during the three-week Gaza war, according to a UN special report that will be released today. The fact-finding mission, headed by the Jewish South African judge Richard Goldstone, also determined that Palestinian militants committed war crimes, but reserved... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • war crimes • crimes against humanity • UN Human Rights Council • International Criminal Court • Gaza war • Arab-Israeli conflict • Richard Goldstone

Serb Cousins Convicted of Burning 132 People Alive

Torched houses after locking Muslims inside

Jul 21, 09 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Serb cousins were convicted yesterday by the UN tribunal in the Hague of burning scores of Bosnian men, women, and children to death during the early 1990s. Milan Lukic was sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of "at least 132 Muslim people," whom he locked... More »

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Bosnia • Muslims • war crimes • The Hague • crimes against humanity • Balkans War • Serbs • war crimes tribunal • Bosnians

Fugitive War Criminal May Be Living Freely

Bosnian TV purports to show Ratko Mladic at wedding, out with family

Jun 11, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bosnian television has aired what it calls footage of Ratko Mladic, the notorious Serbian war criminal on the lam since 1995, including a video it says was filmed last winter, reports the BBC. The footage, whose veracity has been disputed, seems to show Mladic living peacefully in a Belgrade suburb,... More »

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Bosnia • Serbia • genocide • war crimes • Ratko Mladic • crimes against humanity • Radovan Karadzic • Ethnic Serbs • Serbs

Shell Accused of Crimes Against Humanity

Family of Saro-Wiwa sues oil company in American court

May 22, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Next week Royal Dutch Shell will finally appear in court to answer charges that it was complicit in the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the author and oil company critic executed by Nigeria's former military regime in 1995. Saro-Wiwa's family accuses the oil company of "a systemic campaign of human... More »

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oil • Shell • Nigeria • crimes against humanity • Royal Dutch Shell • corporate crime • oil industry • Ken Saro-Wiwa

Khmer Rouge Hearings Begin

Head of Cambodian prison charged with war crimes, torture, premeditated murder

Mar 30, 09 10:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the most feared figures of Pol Pot's fanatical regime in Cambodia has begun to tell his story on the witness stand as hearings begin in his trial, reports the Los Angeles Times. The former head of a Khmer Rough prison, Kaing Khev Iev—known as Duch—is charged... More »

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United Nations • torture • Khmer Rouge • Duch • Pol Pot • crimes against humanity • war crimes tribunal

(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

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

(Newser) - Pressure from nonprofits and watchdogs is mounting on the UN to intercede in Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis, GlobalPost reports. Physicians for Human Rights asserts that Robert Mugabe intentionally dismantled the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure, and is directly responsible for the cholera outbreak that has claimed 1,800 lives.... More »

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health care • Africa • United Nations • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • sanitation • crimes against humanity • International Criminal Court • cholera • Physicians for Human Rights

 Spain Drops 
 Probe Into 
 Franco Crimes 

But plan to dig up mass graves may still go ahead

Nov 19, 08 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - One of Spain's leading judges terminated an inquiry into atrocities committed during the 1936-1939 civil war and the ensuing dictatorship, ending the country's first criminal investigation into Francisco Franco's regime. The judge dropped the case after government prosecutors questioned his jurisdiction over what the suit called crimes against humanity. But... More »

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Spain • history • crimes against humanity • Francisco Franco • Spanish Civil War

 Spanish Judge 
 Begins Probe 
 of Franco Crimes 

Magistrate also orders poet Federico García Lorca's body exhumed

Oct 16, 08 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Spanish judge today ordered the grave of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca dug up, and declared 114,000 political killings in the 1930s and later under former dictator General Francisco Franco crimes against humanity, the Guardian reports. The move—part of the first official inquiry into Franco-era... More »

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Spain • crimes against humanity • Francisco Franco • Spanish Civil War • Federico García Lorca

Sudan President Accused of
War Crimes

Court could arrest al-Bashir over Darfur genocide

Jul 14, 08 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was officially accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity today in International Criminal Court, the BBC reports. The court must now decide whether to issue a warrant for Bashir’s arrest. If it does, Sudan’s government says it will disrupt the peace process... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • war crimes • crimes against humanity • Omar al Bashir • International Criminal Court

'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

Khmer Rouge Jailer Has First Day in Court

Pol Pot ally held for 8 years asks genocide tribunal to set bail

Nov 20, 07 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The Cambodian “Killing Fields” tribunal heard an application for bail today from Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the math teacher who became the chief jailer of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. Of at least 14,000 who went into Duch’s prison, only 10 survived, Reuters... More »

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human rights • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Duch • Pol Pot • crimes against humanity

Saddam's Eldest Daughter Sought by Interpol

Arrest warrant issued for Raghad Hussein

Aug 17, 07 6:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Accusing her of terrorism and other related offenses, Interpol is on the hunt for the oldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader executed last December for crimes against humanity. Raghad Saddam Hussein left Iraq when US forces invaded and was believed to be living in Jordan as recently... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Jordan • Raghad Hussein • crimes against humanity • Interpol • Sajida Hussein

Khmer Rouge Jailer First to Be Charged

UN-backed tribunal opens amid doubts senior leaders will be brought to justice

Jul 31, 07 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A UN tribunal has charged an ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief with crimes against humanity in the torturing and killing of as many as 17,000 people during the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, ordered inmates executed at the "killing fields" near Phnom Penh,... More »

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genocide • torture • Cambodia • Khmer Rouge • Kang Kek Ieu • Duch • Pol Pot • Ta Mok • Phnom Penh • crimes against humanity

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