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28 Aug 2010, 7:10 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So says a draft UN report that studied events in the Congo between 1993 and 2008: An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds of large-scale killings of ethnic Hutu refugees during the 1990s that amounted to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide, according to a confidential copy of the report. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 5:28 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The report is here. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Reuters: The Dutch prosecutor’s office said on Friday it would look into whether Dutch peacekeeping soldiers should face criminal charges over the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave has kindly sent another post on piracy. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 5:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Foreign Policy has added a new blog to its roster that should be of interest to readers. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 5:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr’s trial began a couple of days ago at Guantanamo. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 5:30 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two commenters on my previous post on Kagame’s increasing authoritarianism questioned whether Rwanda arrested Peter Erlinder because of his representation of defendants at the ICTR. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 4:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Hell must have had central air conditioning installed, because I find myself in complete agreement with Ruth Wedgwood’s recent post at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 2:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Actually, I’m not, although I’m confident Labor will pull out the election. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 2:27 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Nancy Combs new book on international tribunals, Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 8:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller El Universal — along with other newspapers — is reporting that one of President Uribe’s final acts in office was to file a complaint with the ICC alleging that Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, is responsible for permitting FARC guerrillas to use Venezuela as a staging area for crimes committed in Colombia: Jaime Granados, the lawyer of Colombian outgoing president Álvaro Uribe, on August 6 filed a complaint against… [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity: (1) crimes committed with government involvement; (2) systematic criminality; (3) socially alarming crimes such as enforced disappearance and torture. [read post]
31 Jul 2010, 6:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, the AU has condemned the ICC’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against Bashir for genocide. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 3:16 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post written by Ifeoma Ajunwa, a human-rights attorney who is beginning a PhD at Columbia University in the fall. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post by Lt. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 4:44 am
by Kevin Jon Heller With an election scheduled for August 21, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony “Check Out My Speedo” Abbott were set to debate tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave Hoffman has a post today at Concurring Opinions reporting the results of an empirical study of how often law reviews have cited various blogs. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 6:33 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two items worth noting. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 8:11 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Greg McNeal has passed along the sad news that Charles Gittings, a long-time commenter on Opinio Juris, has passed away at an untimely 57. [read post]
