# war-crimes - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Genocide Conviction
# Genocide Conviction
The UN tribunal in The Hague rejected Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his 2017 life sentence.
# war-crimes - Thursday 19 November, 2020
# Military Inquiry
# Military Inquiry
The findings recommended 19 soldiers be investigated by police for possible charges, including murder.
# war-crimes - Thursday 5 November, 2020
# Hashim Thaci
# Hashim Thaci
The charges relate to his time as a guerrilla leader in the country’s war for independence.
# war-crimes - Monday 18 November, 2019
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
A BBC Panorama programme claims that killings of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq have been covered up.
# war-crimes - Sunday 7 April, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
187 million people were killed through genocide and state-sanctioned mass murder, in the 20th century, writes Cian Matthew Kearns.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
# The Hague
# The Hague
Karadzic (73) was notorious for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
# war-crimes - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The German man is charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
# war-crimes - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The court is considering prosecuting US servicemen over alleged detainee abuse.
# war-crimes - Friday 23 February, 2018
# Closing Ceremony
# Closing Ceremony
Kim Yong Chol is heading to the closing ceremony but is accused of war crimes.
# Heinous Acts
# Heinous Acts
A UN report said some of the cases are “reminiscent of Bosnia”.
# war-crimes - Monday 4 December, 2017
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The 13 are suspected of “murders, torture, rapes, persecutions and expulsions” of civilians.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 29 November, 2017
# The Hague
# The Hague
Slobodan Praljak shouted out “Praljak is not a criminal. I reject your verdict”, immediately before bringing a brown bottle to his lips.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
# The Hague
# The Hague
The 74 year old faced 11 charges, including genocide and crimes against humanity, at the UN tribunal.
# war-crimes - Sunday 8 October, 2017
# Child Soldiers
# Child Soldiers
The actor apparently wanted to invite Kony to dinner so he could be arrested.
# war-crimes - Monday 4 September, 2017
# Climate Of Fear
# Climate Of Fear
Three investigators from the UN’s Human Rights Council have been probing the political climate of the African country for the past 12 months.
# war-crimes - Sunday 13 August, 2017
# Syria
# Syria
“The preparatory work has been done, but nevertheless, there is no prosecutor and no court.”
# war-crimes - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
# South Sudan
# South Sudan
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
# war-crimes - Saturday 1 October, 2016
# Explainer
# Explainer
Five facts about war crimes, and the long, arduous legal process to bring perpetrators to justice.
# war-crimes - Monday 26 September, 2016
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan is to ‘convey concerns to Russian authorities’ as Western powers accuse Russia of war crimes.
# war-crimes - Sunday 18 September, 2016
# Column
# Column
Professor of international criminal justice, Dr Niamh Howlin, says countries and individuals can be held responsible for the things they do during war time.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 1 June, 2016
# Relocation
# Relocation
This would be the first time Ireland is involved in an international witness protection programme.
# war-crimes - Saturday 28 May, 2016
# Landmark Case
# Landmark Case
The man had told his defence lawyer he was “a Muslim who believes in justice.”
# war-crimes - Thursday 24 March, 2016
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The former Bosnian Serb leader was sentenced to four decades in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
# war-crimes - Monday 21 March, 2016
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The International Criminal Court has convicted Jean-Pierre Bemba on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
# war-crimes - Thursday 29 October, 2015
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The African Union has accused South Sudanese forces of extreme violence since the country’s civil war began nearly two years ago.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 7 October, 2015
# Yemen
# Yemen
American allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE are leading the coalition battling rebels in Yemen.
# war-crimes - Thursday 7 May, 2015
# Omar Khadr
# Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr arrived in Guantanamo Bay aged 15.
# war-crimes - Monday 4 May, 2015
# Vukovar
# Vukovar
Victims in Croatia might soon get justice after war crimes.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 31 December, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
Benjamin Netanyahu called Israel’s soldiers “the most moral army in the world”.
# war-crimes - Tuesday 23 December, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
Amnesty International says thousands of people may have been targeted in the war crimes in Iraq.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The group says Israel showed a “shocking disregard for Gaza civilians”.
# war-crimes - Wednesday 1 October, 2014
# United Nations
# United Nations
The international community is pouring its efforts into containing the criminal militancy of Isis, but we should turn our attention to funding Ebola emergency relief.
# war-crimes - Friday 12 September, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
Massacres, hostage-taking, torture and sexual violence. These are the war crimes happening in Syria, yet why don’t we care, asks GOAL CEO Barry Andrews.
# war-crimes - Thursday 19 June, 2014
# Poll
# Poll
For more than 60 years German courts only prosecuted Nazi war criminals if evidence showed they personally committed atrocities.
# war-crimes - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Investigation
# Investigation
The Security Council wants to bring the crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.
# Diplomacy
# Diplomacy
The resolution will seek to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.
# war-crimes - Monday 19 May, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
Ratko Mladic faces 11 charges for his role in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 conflict in which 100,000 people died.
# war-crimes - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
A UN war crimes tribunal says that Ratko Mladic “has a case to answer”.
# war-crimes - Saturday 5 April, 2014
# War
# War
The court will address a report which found that some of Kosovo’s leaders were involved in war crimes – including harvesting and selling organs – during the conflict.
# war-crimes - Sunday 15 December, 2013
# Missing
# Missing
This month marks 30 years since the end of the bloody dictatorship – but thousands are still missing.
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