Prison for ex-dictator soothes Guatemala
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt spent his first full day as a convict Saturday in a 16-by-13 foot cell with a small bed, bathroom and ...
Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and ...
Rios Montt: From army to dictatorship to courtroom
Efrain Rios Montt ruled as Guatemala's dictator, served as president of Congress, preached as an evangelical pastor and now, at 86, has become the ...
Obama marks anniversary of Armenian massacres
President Barack Obama is again avoiding the term "genocide" in marking the anniversary of the massacres of Armenians nearly a century ago.
Top court sends Rios Montt trial to new judge
Guatemala's highest court on Tuesday ordered that the genocide trial against one of the Central American country's former dictators be taken over by ...
Serbia massacre puts spotlight on Balkan vet woes
Edin Kapidzic fought in Croatia's brutal war for independence and came out alive. Carrying on in peace turned out to be harder. Years after returning ...
Bosnian activist says UN meeting was biased
Bosnian activist Munira Subasic lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, yet she was ...
US, Canada, Jordan, boycott UN meeting on justice
Barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting on international criminal justice, Bosnian activist Munira Subasic, who lost 22 close family members in the ...
Guatemala war trial puts past closer to president
Guatemala's struggle to deal with the war crimes of the past, including bringing an aging former dictator and his officers to justice, is hitting the ...
Syrian president warns of fallout if regime falls
President Bashar Assad warned the fall of his regime or the breakup of Syria will unleash a "domino effect" that will fuel Middle East instability for ...
Putin urges peace talks to end Syria 'massacre'
President Vladimir Putin said the civil war in Syria has become "a massacre" that must be stopped through peace talks between the government and the ...
Ivory Coast begins exhuming mass graves
Ivory Coast officials on Thursday began exhuming dozens of mass graves dating back to the country's 2011 postelection violence, as a new report ...
Attacks leave more than 50 dead in central Nigeria
Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this ...
China's first lady serenaded Tiananmen troops
A photo of China's new first lady Peng Liyuan in younger days, singing to martial-law troops following the 1989 bloody military crackdown on ...
UN rights body extends Syria probe to March 2014
Dozens of nations agreed Friday to extend a U.N. probe of human rights abuses in Syria's civil war for another year, signaling their grave concern ...
Call for justice opens Guatemala ex-leader trial
The first witness in the trial of Guatemala's former U.S.-backed dictator testified Tuesday that soldiers razed his village in 1982, killing dozens ...
Ex-Guatemala strongman on trial after 30 years
There is no smoking gun in the case files, no direct order from Guatemala's then military dictator to carry out the slaughter of civilians during one ...
US suspect in Afghan massacre to get sanity review
A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians after slipping away from his base will undergo a court-ordered review of his sanity this ...
UN panel investigating 20 massacres in Syria
A U.N.-appointed commission is collecting evidence on 20 massacres in Syria, a reflection of the civil war's growing brutality, the panel's chairman ...
Dutch peacekeeper not prosecuted for Srebrenica
The retired general who commanded Dutch peacekeepers in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb fighters overran the town and massacred ...
UN appeals court acquits ex-Serb military chief
In a stunning reversal, U.N. appeals judges on Thursday acquitted the former chief of the Yugoslav National Army of aiding and abetting atrocities by ...
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