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20 Feb 2008, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] An Argentinean woman has brought charges against her adoptive parents for kidnapping her and falsifying her identity during Argentina's "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 4:10 am
UNTOLD STORIES:HIDDEN HISTORIES OF WAR CRIMES TRIALSA two-day international symposium to uncover and explore some of the less well-knownwar crimes trials, both international and domestic.Melbourne Law School15th and 16th October 2010Presented by The Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School,and supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project GrantOrganizers: Gerry [read post]
25 Feb 2003, 1:11 pm
Bush [PDF] war powers suit now on expedited appeal to the First Circuit following its dismissal yesterday in US District Court, says that for the first time in litigation the US Government is expounding a radically expansive version of executive [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 10:10 am
[JURIST] A group of Argentine veterans of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict [UK MOD backgrounder] have filed a lawsuit alleging that the Argentine military tortured and killed its own troops during the brief war with Britain over possession of the South Atlantic islands. [read post]
5 Apr 2005, 4:48 am
[JURIST] Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrators Tuesday gathered at UN headquarters and US and UK embassies in Khartoum to protest the recently approved UN resolution [JURIST report] turning Sudanese war crimes trials over to the International Criminal Court. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 1:20 am
Ieng Sary and his wife, who served as Minister for Social Affairs, have been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. [read post]
19 Sep 2006, 4:59 am
[JURIST] Corporal David Payne, one of seven British soldiers facing court-martial [Reuters report; MOD press release] for charges relating to the abuse of Iraqi detainees, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of inhumane treatment, becoming the first British soldier to admit commission of a war crime in Iraq. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 10:43 am
[JURIST] Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC profile] and his military commander Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; JURIST news archive], both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further integrated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [official website], US officials said Wednesday. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 6:05 am
[JURIST] Judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] Tuesday, after Tolimir refused to enter a plea for the second time since his initial appearance before the ICTY on June 4. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] Two former generals were convicted Thursday of killing a senator during the so-called "dirty war" in Argentina [JURIST news archive] and have been sentenced to life terms of house arrest. [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] The director of Guatemala's National Compensation Program Cesar Davila announced Friday that the Guatemalan government [official website; JURIST news archive] has filed more than 3,000 criminal complaints for human rights violations allegedly committed during the country's 1960-1996 civil war [GlobalSecurity Backgrounder]. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) arrested [press release] two former Bosnian Serb detention camp guards on Thursday who were allegedly responsible for the death of around 50 civilians and Bosnian soldiers during the Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 6:08 am
[JURIST] Bosnian police Wednesday arrested retired Serbian General Novack Djukic [press release, in Bosnian] for alleged involvement in a 1995 war crime in which the Republika Srpska Army [UN backgrounder] fired a single artillery shell into the central square of the town of Tuzla. [read post]
6 Apr 2005, 7:50 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia agreed Wednesday to allow Serbian General Sreten Lukic [ICTY case backgrounder] 30 days to enter his plea on war crimes charges so that he can undergo a medical exam following heart surgery last week. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 4:41 pm
We win the Cold War, but unfettered free markets don’t lead to prosperity and peace. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 12:00 pm
Ehren Watada [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], an Army officer who refused [JURIST report] deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war as ‘unlawful'. [read post]
10 Apr 2003, 12:43 pm
Human Rights Watch wrote to Secretary of State Powell and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld Wednesday urging them to prevent Iraqi government offices from being ransacked because government documents will undoubtedly be key evidence in future war crimes trials. [read post]
18 Mar 2003, 1:16 pm
[JURIST] The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists [advocacy website] said Tuesday it was "deeply dismayed" that "a small number of states are poised to launch an outright illegal invasion of Iraq, which amounts to a war of aggression. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 9:02 am
[JURIST] The US military systematically covered up or disregarded "abundant and compelling evidence" of war crimes in Afghanistan, Amnesty International (AI) [advocay website] reported [PDF] Monday. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 8:30 am
As we begin to survey the damage from Hurricane Sandy, a symptom of the global warming that has been religiously ignored in the course of the presidential debates, our thoughts turn toward the impact of trauma: Sandy's trauma involves man's influence on nature, but in war we have trauma that is purely the result of mankind's inability to live in... [read post]
