War crimes trial of Croat General Gotovina to begin
AMSTERDAM, March 9 (Reuters) – Former Croatian General Ante Gotovina goes on trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Tuesday charged with responsibility for the murder and mistreatment of Serbs in Croatia's Krajina region in 1995.
Gotovina, who is accused with two other former generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac and was indicted in 2001, travelled extensively using false identities before his dramatic capture in Spain's Canary Islands in December 2005.
Uganda rebel lawyers to meet with war crimes court
Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:26am EDT
By Emma Thomasson
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Lawyers for Ugandan rebels were to meet International Criminal Court officials on Monday to push the court to drop charges against their leader, which are a sticking point in talks to end the 21-year war.
Despite rapid progress in the past month at peace talks in Sudan, the Lord's Resistance Army rebels insist any final deal with Uganda's government be conditional on the ICC dropping war crimes’ charges against leader Joseph Kony and two deputies.
Dutch appeals court acquits businessman of arms dealing in Liberia
Monday, March 10, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: A Dutch appeals court on Monday acquitted a businessman of violating a U.N. embargo by allegedly trading weapons for timber in Liberia, citing a lack of reliable evidence.
The Hague Appeals Court overturned the verdict from a lower court that sentenced Guus Kouwenhoven to eight years in prison for trading guns for allegedly logging rights and using his lumber company to smuggle weapons later used by militias to commit atrocities against civilians in West Africa.