The incoming chief war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations, Serge Brammertz, said Thursday Serbia could do a lot better with its cooperation with the Hague, specifically in bringing war crimes suspects before the court. “I particularly insisted on the search for and arrest of the remaining fugitives,” he said. “It is crucial that they […]
Carla Del Ponte, the former chief prosecutor at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, says in her new book that ethnic Serbs were taken from their homes and swifted to Albania to harvest and sell their organs. Among the allegations are testimony from the book's co-author, Chuck Sudetic, that evidence found in one […]
The U.S. war crimes tribunal holding court at the naval detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appointed a U.S. military lawyer to serve as the legal representative to the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. The military ordered Navy Capt. Prescott Prince to serve as the lawyer […]
UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (UPI) — The United Nations marked the four-year anniversary of the organization's involvement in the Darfur region of Sudan by saying the situation remains grim. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the continued instability fueled by violence from rebel groups and government forces continued to plague Darfur. Ban called on the international […]
The New York Times Friday ran an editorial on an 81-page memo by John Yoo that oultines the legal justification for harsh interrogation tactics for the Justice Department. Yoo's memo follows similar statements placing torture on equal footing with abuses resulting in near death. The Times piece argues it is abhorrent that it took 81 […]
AMSTERDAM, April 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict on Thursday in the trial of Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, charged with torturing and murdering Serbs to drive them out of the region. Prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of 25 years for Haradinaj, 39, a Kosovo Albanian […]
The United Nations said Monday it had completed the panel of judges slated to oversee the prosecution of the formal investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, over three years after his Feb. 14, 2005 killing. The U.N. Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel said the panel consisted of 11 judges, […]
Dith Pran, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and photojournalist for The New York Times, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at a New Jersey hospital. He was 65. Dith worked alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg to relay the story of the Cambodian atrocities to the international news media at both of their […]
For the third time since the investigation into the killing of at least two dozen Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in late 2005, the U.S. Marines dropped charges against one of the accused – Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum – in exchange for testimony. This leaves only the commanding officer of the group, […]
Peacekeeping forces from the European Union raided the homes of family members of Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes for his involvement in the 1995 massacre are Srebrenica. The whereabouts of Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic have been the point of much debate since the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. Many international officials, including Carla del […]
Col. Moe Davis, who stepped down from his high-profile position as the chief U.S. prosecutor in the Guantanamo Bay terrorism cases, Tuesday submitted a request to retire from his position with the military. Davis said he expects to complete his duties with the military in July. He is expected to then serve is a witness […]
A U.S. lawyer defending a group of American and Vietnamese people suffering from the effects of exposure to Agent Orange vowed to continue to fight following a rejecting of the case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathon Moore said at press briefing in Hanoi Friday that he would take the case all the […]
The United Nations on Thursday condemned an attack on civilians in West Darfur by forces backed by the Sudanese government. The U.N. report said aerial attacks accompanied ground forces on raids on several villages, resulting in over 100 dead and several thousand displaced. The United Nations is only as strong as its member states; very […]
Under the shadow of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, leaders of many Arab nations gathered in the tiny African nation of Senegal for the Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting. While the leaders of the impoverished nation wonder if hosting such an event will ultimately generate good graces from the wealthy […]
March 16 marked the 20th anniversary of a chemical weapons attack against a Kurdish uprising by the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 1988. The international community is just coming to terms with the events. With the U.S. pre-occupied with backing Saddam in his conflict with fever of Islamic nationalism gripping the Iranians, the […]