mideast news Egypt: Several thousand protesters marched toward Egypt's ministry of defense and headquarters of the country's military rulers in a rare rally Friday following reports of scuffles between protesters and soldiers in other cities. Armored vehicles and hundreds of military police blocked the road leading to the defense ministry. Yemen: Shelling by Yemeni security forces killed a young girl and her mother Friday, and army forces fought with Islamists who have overrun a southern town in clashes that killed four combatants. Syria: Hundreds of thousands of Syrians defied a violent government crackdown Friday, insisting they will not be terrified into submission through bullets, mass arrests and more than four months of attacks by security forces. At least five people were killed,...
... the warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court, al-Issawi told reporters that ther... said, referring to the Hague-based tribunal. Al-Issawi's office essentially serves as a Cabine...
This article examines the violence that broke out in Kenya after the 2007 presidential elections. After weeks of fighting and the establishment of a coalition government made up of the incumbent president and the leader of the opposition, relative calm returned to the country. However, the government has been slow to implement the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence (Waki Commission). One key suggestion the Waki Commission made was to call upon the Kenyan government to establish an independent Special Tribunal made up of domestic and international jurists to prosecute those responsible for the crimes committed during the violence. At the time of writing, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II had been assigned the matter to determine whether the Office of the ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - At stake was the fate of Charles Taylor, 62, the first African president brought before an international war crimes tribunal. Although he looked like a London banker with his gray hair and pinstripe suit, the U.S.-educated Taylor stood accused of murder, rape, sexual slavery, cruelty, enslavement, pillage and recruitment of children to fight in one of the world's most atrocity- filled wars. The unlikely star witness was Naomi Campbell, 40, a sleek British supermodel who for two decades has been an international icon of glamour, style and jet-set indulgence. Her testimony seemed to come from another universe, far from the steamy battlefields of West Africa where Taylor first made his name as a rebel warlord and Liberian president, then, since 2006, as a defendant...
Recognize waterboarding for what it is -- torture What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Waterboarding, by any other name, including the Orwellian "enhanced interrogation technique," is torture. The United States tried and convicted members of the Japanese military during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for, amongst other crimes, torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. According to Evan Wallach, Vietnam War veteran, federal judge and one of the nation's foremost experts on war crimes and the law of war, "the principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.
There will be a corresponding focus on cases outside of the ICTY, particularly from other war crimes tribunals such as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ("ICTR") and the Special Court for Sierra Leone ("SCSL").
When it comes to genocide, numbers can't do justice. It's difficult to come to grips with 100 mass executions, let alone thousands. This summer, one of the most notorious Serbian mass murderers was convicted and sentenced for ethnic cleansing atrocities in the former Yugoslavia. Milan Lukic, a Bosnian Serb, was found guilty of murder and crimes against humanity by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. He was convicted of 133 murders, though that number likely represents only a fraction of his true offenses.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- The two white U.N. troop transport helicopters carrying their prize -- a manacled former African leader -- circled down out of the west African skies to land inside the heavily guarded compound of an international war-crimes tribunal. Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor, looking chastened after hours in the skies over the region ruined by wars he stoked, was escorted to jail by U.N. peacekeeping troops from Mongolia.
USudanese President Omar Bashir, freshly indicted by an international war-crimes tribunal for atrocities in Darfur, plans to test the court's authority with a business trip to Qatar. Qatar is hosting a summit of Arab leaders in two weeks, and hours after the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Gen. Bashir, Sudan's government made it clear he would attend.
Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
Government officials here insist their country's prisons are more than up to the task of holding war criminals from the former Yugoslavia who were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. They were responding to a suggestion made last month by Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte that those convicted at The Hague serve their sentences in their home countries.
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