Nuon Chea, “Brother Number Two” of the Khmer Rouge regime, was arrested yesterday in his home in northeastern Cambodia. Cambodian special forces officers surrounded the 82-year old's home and served him with arrest warrants before he was taken to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia – the headquarters of the special tribunal there […]
The Iraqi government said it would revoke the business license of the security firm, Blackwater USA, after a shotting incident following an attack on a U.S. State Department convoy. The Interior Ministry of Iraq alleges 11 people were killed “when Blackwater contractors opened fire at random after mortar rounds landed near the convoy”, a spokesman […]
The United Nation Security Council voted to extend the term of Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for Yugoslavian war crimes, until the end of the year. Russia had opposed the move, as they have strong cultural and diplomatic ties to Serbia, where many of the alleged criminals have originated. U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, […]
An Ethiopian rebel group is urging the international community to intervene to avoid another “African genocide” at the hands of the central government there. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said in a statement that the Ethiopian government was sanctioning war crimes in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, near the border with Somalia. A United […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday released an audio recording of a hearing for al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay but cut some remarks made by the self-declared mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Audio is available here.
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has pleaded to be removed from the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist groups. The LRA argued its removal from the list will help in peace negotiations between it and the Ugandan government. A peace treaty was signed between the two parties last year, though peace negotiations have repeatedly stalled. […]
The chief prosecutor for Darfur at the International Criminal Court has urged the U.N. secretary-general to press Sudanese officials to comply with arrest warrants issued by the ICC. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, urged the U.N. chief, Ban Ki-moon, to make the case for Sudanese compliance with the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The U.N. […]
With memorials and various observations making headlines today, I will break with protocol and comment some of the legal ramifications of the war on terror. In response to the attacks against the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and the failed attack that crashed in Pennsylvania, the Bush administration launched the “war on terror”; a military […]
A report by the New York based Human Rights Watch states that Israel conducted indiscriminate air raids against Lebanese civilians during the July War with the military wing of Hezbollah. The report alleges that Israel acted with “reckless indifference” regarding the fate of civilians and questioned Israel's argument that Hezbollah was using civilians as human […]
Three Marine Corps personnel were officially disciplined for their role in the death of 24 Iraqi civilians during a raid in the town of Haditha in 2005. Maj. Gen. Richard A. Huck, the former commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division, was given a letter of censure for the “actions he took and failed to […]
The International Criminal Court is examining holding the trial for the only suspect held for atrocities in Congo in the African nation, rather then The Hague in Netherlands. Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord accused of conscripting child soldiers, was arrested in the capital city, Kinshasa, during a crackdown following the murder and mutilation of nine […]
The appeals court to the Iraqi High Tribunal upheld the death sentence of Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed – widely known as “Chemical Ali” – for his role in an elimination campaign targeted against Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq. A appellate court judge, Munir Hadad, stated that “The government now has to carry out […]
The U.S. Supreme Courts’ docket contains new reviews of the rights of detainees held by the United States in the “war on terror.” The Supreme Court has been reviewing the basic tenets of law pertaining to the status of prisoners at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba more or […]
The Article 32 hearing is proceeding for the murder probe of U.S. Staff Sft. Frank Wuterich for the murder of Iraqi civilians in November 2005. Wuterich is charged with 18-counts of murder during a “clearing operation” following in IED – improvised explosive device – on a military convoy of the U.S. Marine's Kilo Company in […]
A military courts martial tribunal has completed its proceedings investigating the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, 51, was acquitted of responsibility for the actions of 11 other soldiers for their actions against prisoners of the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan was formally reprimanded, however, for disobeying an official order […]