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70 Years Later, German Prosecutors to Hold Nazi Death Camp Guards to Account
The events of the Holocaust seven decades ago are starting to fade from living memory, but the wheels of justice are still turning.
Why the Syrian Rebels May Also Be Guilty of War Crimes
For weeks, politicians in European capitals and in the U.S. have debated how, and if, they should assist Syrian rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar...
“For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
– from a White House statement issued Aug. 18, 2011, a year ago Saturday. Bashar Assad continues as Syria’s president, war crimes continue to be committed on...
Bosnia's Butcher in Court: Ratko Mladic Stands Trial for War Crimes
Jauntily applauding his war crimes judges and giving them a thumbs up, Ratko Mladic showed he had lost none of the swagger of the soldier who stands accused of...
Warlord Convicted: Liberia's Charles Taylor Found Guilty of War Crimes
Once the commanding and charismatic warlord, Charles Taylor cut a distant, bewildered, even pathetic figure in the courtroom on Thursday as he listened to the...
Must-Reads From Around the World: April 26, 2012
Life For Death? – The five-year trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other...
Why Sri Lanka Remains Defiant Against New Allegations of War Crimes
“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John...
George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal
The International Criminal Court is compiling evidence of possible recent war crimes in southern Sudan, allegedly directed by the same man, Sudanese Defense...
At Cambodia War Crimes Trial, Defendants Are Not All There
They are now aged and frail but, by historians' accounts, they once conducted themselves with fervor: presiding over this southeast Asian country's holocaust as...
Serbia's Arrest of Last War-Crimes Fugitive Brings Europe Into View
The arrest on Wednesday of Goran Hadzic, the last war-crimes suspect sought by the international court for the former Yugoslavia, sent two powerful messages. One...
