http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/21646-war-crimes.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/21646-war-crimes.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands — says she has received a complaint about Israel's 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation. The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html 2013-05-14T21:04:59Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2084784-kenyan-wants-to-skip-war-crimes-trial.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya asked international war crimes judges Tuesday if he can skip most of his trial and attend only its opening and closing sessions, and any other sessions judges deem particularly necessary. At a hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Ruto said he is seeking to balance hi... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:17:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2084784-kenyan-wants-to-skip-war-crimes-trial.html 2013-05-14T18:17:45Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083944-dutch-wont-charge-company-israeli-barrier-case.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In a blow to pro-Palestinian activists, Dutch authorities said Tuesday they will not prosecute a company on war crimes charges for renting out equipment to construct Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Dutch human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld, who filed in 2010 on behalf of the Palestinian group al-Haq, said she was disa... Tue, 14 May 2013 10:26:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083944-dutch-wont-charge-company-israeli-barrier-case.html 2013-05-14T10:26:25Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2065150-syrian-rebels-shoot-regime-helicopter-east.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board as President Bashar Assad's troops battled opposition forces inside a sprawling military air base in the north for the second straight day, activists said Monday. The downing of the helicopter was a welcome victory for rebels fightin... Mon, 06 May 2013 19:07:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2065150-syrian-rebels-shoot-regime-helicopter-east.html 2013-05-06T19:07:34Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2066202-alleged-auschwitz-death-camp-guard-arrested.html BERLIN (AP) — A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. Hans Lipschis was taken into custody after authorities concluded there was "compelling evidence" he was involved in crimes at Auschwitz... Mon, 06 May 2013 18:35:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2066202-alleged-auschwitz-death-camp-guard-arrested.html 2013-05-06T18:35:23Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2065616-un-panel-backs-syria-nerve-gas-claim.html GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. panel looking into war crimes in Syria said Monday it has not found conclusive evidence of chemical weapons use, backing away from a member's claims that there are indications rebel forces used the nerve agent sarin. The commission "wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syri... Mon, 06 May 2013 14:25:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2065616-un-panel-backs-syria-nerve-gas-claim.html 2013-05-06T14:25:12Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2041610-93-year-old-investigated-nazi.html BERLIN (AP) — A 93-year-old man who acknowledges he served with the SS in the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp but claims he was only a cook is under investigation by German authorities as a possible accessory to murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Hans Lipschis was deported from the U.S. in 1983 for lying about his Nazi past when he immigrated to Chicago in ... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:18:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2041610-93-year-old-investigated-nazi.html 2013-04-24T15:18:08Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2028166-karadzic-seeks-to-compel-mladic-to-testify.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The two alleged chief architects of Serb atrocities committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war could meet in a United Nations courtroom for the first time, if one of them gets his wish. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sought a subpoena Thursday to compel his one-time military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic, to testify in ... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:24:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2028166-karadzic-seeks-to-compel-mladic-to-testify.html 2013-04-18T15:24:21Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2016670-hague-war-crimes-court-investigating-staffer.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — The International Criminal Court in The Hague has opened a formal investigation into allegations by four people who say they were subjected to sexual abuse by a court staff member working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The war crimes court said Friday it is "profoundly concerned by these grave allegations" and had taken steps to pro... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:44:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2016670-hague-war-crimes-court-investigating-staffer.html 2013-04-12T21:44:55Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2013242-macedonia-war-crimes-convict-heros-welcome.html SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Macedonia's capital Thursday to welcome home a former police officer who served eight years in prison for committing war crimes during a 2001 insurgency by ethnic Albanian militants. Johan Tarculovski was greeted at the airport in Skopje by relatives as well as conservative Prime Minister Ni... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:53:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2013242-macedonia-war-crimes-convict-heros-welcome.html 2013-04-11T17:53:38Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2009782-us-canada-jordan-boycott-un-meeting-justice.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting on international criminal justice, Bosnian activist Munira Subasic, who lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, said she felt powerless as she listened to Serbia's ultranationalist president attack the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia as politically biased. Su... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:09:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2009782-us-canada-jordan-boycott-un-meeting-justice.html 2013-04-11T05:09:16Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2007476-kenya-celebrates-president-daggers-west.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, ascended to the country's top office Tuesday during a jubilant celebration that began a new era in Kenyan politics, one that forces the U.S. and Europe into a diplomatic balancing act. Amid the dancing and cheering of a sea of red-clad supporters, Kenyatta, his deputy and Uganda'... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:04:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2007476-kenya-celebrates-president-daggers-west.html 2013-04-09T17:04:55Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2007534-bosnian-serb-president-testifies-karadzic.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One Bosnian Serb leader testified in defense of another at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, blaming Muslims' wishes for an Islamic state in Bosnia for fueling the country's ethnic war. Radovan Karadzic, accused by United Nations prosecutors of orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war, called o... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:29:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2007534-bosnian-serb-president-testifies-karadzic.html 2013-04-09T16:29:26Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995498-us-offers-5-bounty-kony.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday offered up to $5 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, two of his top aides and a Rwandan rebel leader suspected of crimes against humanity. The bounties are being offered by the State Department under a provision in the War Crimes Rewa... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:53:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995498-us-offers-5-bounty-kony.html 2013-04-03T16:53:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995198-us-group-sudan-face-war-crimes-charges.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A U.S. based advocacy group alleged in a new report Wednesday that Sudan's government has committed war crimes since mid-2011 in two of its southern states near the border with South Sudan. The Enough Project said that two years of eyewitness reports, photos, video and satellite imagery present strong evidence that Sudan should be re... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:36:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995198-us-group-sudan-face-war-crimes-charges.html 2013-04-03T15:36:40Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995026-libya-allowed-to-try-spy-chief.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Libya has formally applied to the International Criminal Court to be allowed to put Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief on trial in Tripoli instead of sending him to The Hague to face justice, according to documents published Wednesday. In a lengthy written submission, lawyers representing Libya argued that Abdullah al-Senouss... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:39:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1995026-libya-allowed-to-try-spy-chief.html 2013-04-03T11:39:31Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1986452-bosnia-man-sentenced-to-45-years-war-crimes.html SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Friday convicted a Montenegrin man of multiple counts of murder, torture, rape and looting during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, and sentenced him to 45 years in prison — the highest sentence ever issued in the country. Judge Zoran Bozic said that Veselin Vlahovic, killed 31 people, raped a number of Bosniak... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:55:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1986452-bosnia-man-sentenced-to-45-years-war-crimes.html 2013-03-29T16:55:55Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1982386-court-bosnian-serbs-guilty-wartime-persecution.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted two senior Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday of key roles in a campaign of murder, torture and persecution against Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and sentenced them each to 22 years in prison. Mico Stanisic was the interior minister in the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic ... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:20:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1982386-court-bosnian-serbs-guilty-wartime-persecution.html 2013-03-27T17:20:51Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1972632-un-rights-body-extends-syria-probe-to-march-2014.html GENEVA (AP) — 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 about the escalating violence — and their intent to prosecute abuses. By a vote of 41-1, the U.N.'s top human rights body, based in Geneva, reauthorized its panel of four independent experts to co... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:36:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1972632-un-rights-body-extends-syria-probe-to-march-2014.html 2013-03-22T17:36:57Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1969672-un-rights-body-urges-thorough-sri-lanka-probe.html GENEVA (AP) — For the second time in as many years, the U.N.'s top human rights body approved a U.S.-backed resolution Thursday calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the country's quarter-century civil war with the Tamil Tiger rebels. By a 25-13 vote, the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council u... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:23:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1969672-un-rights-body-urges-thorough-sri-lanka-probe.html 2013-03-21T21:23:11Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1954092-death-coming-justice-khmer-rouge-regime.html PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Decades after Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement oversaw the deaths of 1.7 million people by starvation, overwork and execution, the regime's imprisoned top leaders are escaping justice one by one. How? Old age. Thursday's death of 87-year-old Ieng Sary, one of the founders of the Khmer Rouge, has fueled urgent calls among ... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:01:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1954092-death-coming-justice-khmer-rouge-regime.html 2013-03-15T05:01:59Z