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A right-wing Ukrainian nationalist party on Thursday accused the Kremlin of complicity in the recent hijacking by Somali pirates of a Kiev-sponsored arms shipment.
According to statement by UNA-UNSO, Ukraine's top nationalist political party, Russian secret services ordered and financed the September intercept of the MV Faina, loaded...
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It was only Tuesday that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided to hear Croatia's genocide case against Serbia and already on Wednesday the thin scabs covering old Balkan war wounds had been scratched off.
"Serbia raped" was one among the fiery headlines from Serbia's yellow press bringing back memories of the...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled on Tuesday it has jurisdiction to hear a claim by Croatia that Serbia committed genocide against its population in the 1991-95 war.
The ICJ said the decision was final, binding and without appeal and had been made by 10 votes to seven.
Croatia filed the case against the...
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A senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, was in German custody in Frankfurt Monday after she was detained on arrival at Frankfurt international airport under an arrest warrant issued in France.
A spokeswoman for state prosecutors in Frankfurt handling the case said she had denied the two accusations of murder and membership in a...
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Serbian police raided several locations Monday in search of the alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic, Belgrade media reported quoting sources.
Raids involving special police forces were reported from several locations in and around Valjevo, a town 70 kilometres south-west of Serbia.
The capture of Mladic and his extradition to the...
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Bosnian authorities arrested two Serb military officers suspected of taking part in the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica 13 years ago, local media said Wednesday.
The two high-ranking officers, Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, face genocide charges for their alleged role in the imprisonment and execution of 1,700 Muslim boys and men...
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Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt hosted Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Thursday, and discussed the fallout of the recent war between Georgia and Russia.
Reinfeldt noted that Sweden has pledged large sums to Georgia and contributed personnel to a European Union monitoring team.
The Swedish premier told reporters...
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Despite a 13-year, multi-billion-dollar international peacekeeping and development effort in Bosnia, Western officials now openly admit it: the divided country is stuck in a blind alley and nobody sees the way out.
The disappointment, the most severe since the end of the 1992-95 war, now runs in the open. The European Union's...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is due to rule Wednesday on Georgia's claim against Russia concerning the alleged violation of its territorial integrity in August.
Georgia says Russia violated international law by entering the province of South Ossetia on August 7.
It also claims Russia previously caused...
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Radovan Karadzic confirmed Wednesday that he planned to defend himself on all 11 charges against him at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
"I will defend myself," the former Bosnian Serb leader said in his third appearance at The Hague-based court.
Karadzic, 63, criticized the speed of the...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul met Tuesday with his visiting Sudanese counterpart, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and urged his guest to make every effort to end the suffering in the crisis region of Darfur.
The meeting took place within the framework of a Turkey-organised African summit in Istanbul, but to the backdrop of criticism of...
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The chairman of Bosnia's nationalist Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) has denied that the party gave up its founder, war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, according to a report published Thursday.
The former Bosnian Serb leader has been indicted on charges of war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva...
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Serbian authorities Tuesday said a laptop was found which may have belonged to Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader on a genocide trial at the United Nations tribunal.
Karadzic was arrested in late July in Belgrade and extradited to the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
He...
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Russian bombers carried out more airstrikes around Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Monday, while US President George W Bush condemned the action as a "disproportionate response" to the fighting in South Ossetia.
Explosions were heard overnight in the capital Tbilisi as Russian planes attacked an air traffic control terminal and...
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Paris has again rejected the legitimacy of a
commission - set up by the Rwandan government to look into the mass
killing of the Tutsi minority in 1994 - which has accused France of
participating in genocide, French news reports said Wednesday.
Paris planned to investigate the accusations made Tuesday of active
participation in the...
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Thinner, a bit greyer and older, but otherwise
the same old Bosnian Serb warlord. Still living in the past and
rambling about conspiracy theories. Don't come back to Serbia, ever.
Comment from Serbs on Radovan Karadzic's first appearance before the
UN war crimes tribunal display little nostalgia. Belgrade coffee shops
and...
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Spain's National Court will seek the
extradition of four alleged Nazi war criminals from the United States
on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, the court announced
Thursday. The Nizkor human rights group, acting on behalf of
victims families, had requested an investigation into accusations
against John Demjanjuk,...
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 The European Union resumed pre-membership talks with Serbia on Wednesday after they were suspended in May 2006 due to Belgrade's failure to deliver key fugitives to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Over the last period Belgrade boosted its cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal determining the EU to reconsider, although Ratko Mladic...
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 The long arm of the law is starting to reach all the parties found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Yugoslav wars, as the Bosnian Serb authorities reported Thursday the arrest of Zdravko Tolimir.Tolimir was trying to negotiate his surrender to Permanent Court of Arbitration with the Serbian government, when the...
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serge Brammertz, arrived in Belgrade Monday to press Serbian officials for the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the most wanted war crimes suspect.
But Belgrade, despite its ties with the European Union hinging on the arrest of fugitive war criminals,...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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A full copy of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors has been transferred to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem, making it the world's largest repository of survivor evidence of the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
The testimonies, from 56 different countries and in 32 languages, were transferred from the...
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 Nearly 1,000 Tibetans have been arrested in only two days
across the capital of Lhasa.
Sources in the city claimed close to 600 people had been detained on Saturday
and almost 300 on Sunday.
At a news conference in Beijing, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao blamed the
Dalai Lama and his followers for inciting violence by organizing...
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 A single survivor of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison sat
stoney-faced in the public gallery as the jail's former commandant
began his first day of court hearings for pre-trial release on human
rights grounds.
One of less than 10 survivors of the S-21 torture centre, Chum Mey
listened as attorneys for his former jailer,...
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 A top official of the Khmer Rouge, the ruling political party of Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, will reportedly testify about the communist regime's atrocities that led to an estimated 1.7 million deaths. Duch, 64, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh.He is believed to have overseen the torturing and...
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A court sentenced an Argentine former army officer to life in prison for the kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists in the Revolutionary Worker's Party in 1977, Telam, the Argentine National News Agency reported.80-year-old Luciano Benjamin Menendez was found guilty along with seven others crimes. He was the leader of...
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 A San Francisco jury found a New Jersey man guilty of felony hate crime charge of false imprisonment on Monday in the assault on Holocaust survivor and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel in 2007. Other charges were crime allegation, battery and elder abuse for pulling the 79-year-old Nobel laureate from a hotel elevator in February...
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 Thousands of students decided to skip classes today to
protest on the “National Day of Silence” and to participate at events marking
the 93rd anniversary of the American Genocide. The “Day of Silence” should
spread a message of tolerance toward their colleagues with different sexual
orientation. 199 schools in North
Carolina,...
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 Dith Pran, 65, resident of Woolbridge, N.J, known as a human
rights advocate, journalist and New York Times photographer, died March 30 of
pancreatic cancer at Robert Wood Hospital
in New Brunswick, N.J.
He was portrayed in the well-known movie “The Killing
Fields.” It tells the story of the journalist, played by...
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According to official reports, former Khmer Rouge Foreign
Minister, Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith were arrested Monday, bringing
the number of regime leaders now facing Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court
to four.
The elderly couple, who were seized at their villa in the
capital Phnom Penh,
will face charges of crimes...
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 The case in which, 1,500,000 Amerindians were supposedly killed
by Ottoman Turks has finally reached a turning point Wednesday as the US House
committee called on president Bush to recognize if the killings were or were
not an act of genocide.
A divided House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the
measure despite back and forth...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
In an emergency meeting of the Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from...
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 Having war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic finally detained,
Serbia
is being urged to catch its fugitive wartime military chief Ratko Mladic, also
sought for genocide.
According to AFP, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said in Singapore during an Asian tour that the Serbs were progressing and
“making a step forward in...
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the architect
of the genocidal Srebrenica massacre, was captured on Monday evening, after
more than a decade on the run, the country’s president and the U.N. tribunal
announced.
Karadzic is suspected of engineering several mass murders
which include the deadly siege of Sarajevo and the...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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 China expressed its concern on Tuesday regarding
the accusations made by the International Criminal Court related to Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over
state-backed acts of genocide in the country’s beleaguered region of Darfur. However, there was no clue that it would take
measures in order to postpone the progression of...
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A court in The Hague is due to rule on
Thursday whether or not it is authorized to hear a case about the role
of the United Nations during the fall of the Muslim enclave Srebrenica
in 1995. After Bosnian Serbs reconquered the Muslim enclave,
they deported and murdered at least 8,000 people. Dutch UN peacekeepers
who were supposed...
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 In an attempt to minimize further casualties caused by serious differences over the fight against Iraq-based Kurdish guerrillas, President Bush and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sought Monday to resolve these issues. The two state officials agreed on the need to share intelligence to end their deadly raids.However there...
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Though accused by a political rival of tacit protection of
Iran-tied militia, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his optimism on his
government reconciliation on Sunday.
In the same time US military reported an attack that took
place on Saturday, causing the death of five soldiers and the injury of other
four troops. The...
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 The death sentence of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a.k.a. “Chemical Ali”, was backed by Iraq’s Presidential Council.Al-Majid got hit above mentioned nickname for his role in the 1988 campaign of genocide against the Kurds living in Iraq. During that period, Al-Majid, who is one of Saddam Hussein’s cousins, played an important role in gassing...
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 An Iraqi court decided Sunday that Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former official, commander and the cousin of Saddam Hussein will pay the supreme price for his implication in a campaign that led to the death of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s.Along with him two other persons were sentenced to death by hanging, while another two former military...
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The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said
Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur
region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic
conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court
(ICC) based at The...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit
said Thursday that justice in Sudan would be achieved through
'political settlement that would aim at stopping the fight and uniting
Sudan.' Abul Gheit made his comments during a press
conference after his joint meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh
Mohammad al-Sabah who has...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has
emphatically denied reports he expressed concern over moves to issue an
international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Beshir for
genocide in Darfur. Reports on Sudanese radio that he had
expressed great concern over the application by International Criminal
Court (ICC) prosecutor...
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 The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
officially called for an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
accusing him of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity executed
during the past five years of atrocities in the Darfur
region of his country.
The prosecutor’s chase of the...
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The official levelling of war crimes charges
against Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir has been
welcomed in many quarters, but fears remain the decision could cause an
escalation of violence in Darfur and more misery for millions of
long-suffering displaced Darfuris. International Criminal
Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis...
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 The U.S.
government has announced that it is strengthening security for its team in Sudan after an
international prosecutor made a move into arresting Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir and his actions set off concerns regarding dangerous repercussions.
On Monday, Washington
unexpectedly ceased to offer its support to the attempts...
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said
Sunday that any move by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to
prosecute Sudanese officials over alleged war crimes would only 'ignite
more fires and instability.' 'Such a decision could not serve
security and stability in the region,' Saleh said in a telephone
conversation with Sudanese...
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 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is
expected Monday to inquire about the detention of Sudan’s president for suspected
genocide and crimes against humanity.
According to BBC, the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is
prepared to propose the charge of president Omar al-Bashir in a report
addressed to the judges...
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 U.N. officials and diplomats announced that the head
prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would request a detain warrant on
Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of genocide
and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of aggression
that caused the deaths of hundreds of...
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Belgian authorities have extradited
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, former vice president of the Democratic
Republic of Congo, to face war crimes charges, the International
Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague said Thursday. Bemba was
detained in Belgium in May following his flight from the DRC last year
after losing presidential elections...
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 Not On Our Watch , a charitable group co-founded by Hollywood
elite actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, civil rights
lawyer David Pressman and producer Jerry Weintraub has donated $500,000 to the
United Nations World Food Program(WFP) to help stop hunger in Darfur, an
affiliated organization said on...
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 Kenya's opposition said Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the
International Criminal Court in The Hague against President Mwai
Kibaki, his cabinet and police officials, accusing them of crimes
against humanity during the post-election period.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which charges that last
month's elections were...
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 Rival politicians traded accusations of inciting violence Wednesday, as
unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls continued across Kenya,
leaving at least 300 people dead.
President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition candidate Raila
Odinga blamed each other for the brutal violence that has seen nearly
300 people killed since...
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with leaders from troubled
African nations Wednesday, calling for greater vigilance in keeping out
"negative forces" from Congo and a robust peacekeeping force for
war-torn Somalia.
Rice's 24-hour visit to the vast Horn of Africa nation was meant to
spur movement on...
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 Local authorities have reported that fighting has again
erupted in eastern Congo's North Kivu province between forces loyal to
dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army.
Rebels and Congo's armed forces on Monday battled for
control of key towns in North Kivu province.
Congo's army attacked the rebel stronghold of...
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 According to a joint statement released on Sunday, Congo has reached a deal with Rwanda to
disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels on its soil, by force if necessary, in an effort to
reduce tensions between the central African neighboring countries.
The Hutu rebels, including former Rwandan soldiers and
members of the militia known as the...
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 The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution to create a peacekeeping force of up to 19,555 soldiers in Darfur. They will be aided by 3,772 police, alongside 19 police units of 140 people each. The peacekeeping force will be made up mostly of peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops.The resolution...
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 After a long period of negotiations with African Union and United Nations representatives, Sudan finally gave the green light for a joint peacekeeping force to enter the conflict-torn Darfur.Tuesday, a new round of talks took place at the African union administrative center in Addis Ababa, Sudanese, AU and UN officials discussing the...
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 Sudan’s
economy is starting to cripple under heavy sanctions imposed by the United
States after the Sudanese government failed
to comply with international requirements regarding Darfur’s
situation.
“For too long, the people of Darfur
have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing,
murder, and rape...
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 At least five people were killed Monday in Ethiopia
by explosions, as the country celebrates the end of the Derg regime.
The incidents occurred in the eastern part regions. A grenade
exploded during a commemoration ceremony, attended a large number of people in
Degah Bur. Meanwhile an powerful explosion rocked the city of...
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