Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'War Crimes'
Possible Crimes against Humanity in Southern Sudan
by Maeve McClenaghan, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK - The indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilians in the south of Sudan could amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report....
Justice Remains Elusive for Victims of Egypt’s ‘Virginity Testing’
by Karen Gardiner Dion, Women Under Siege, USA - “We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” Etman said. “The girls who...
Liberia's Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison
by Yuka Royer, France 24, France - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was sentenced by a special UN court to 50 years in prison Wednesday following his landmark conviction last month for his role in war crimes committed in Sierra...
Syria: 'Why Is the World Not Doing Anything to Help Us?'
by Donatella Rovera, Al Jazeera, Qatar - For more than a year the international community has stood by as Assad's forces torture and murder indiscriminately....
Rwanda Genocide Survivors.
by Patricka Dallas & Frieda Werden, WINGS, Canada - After the genocide in Rwanda, women were 70% of the country's population. They had to step out of traditional gender roles and network with each other to re-create the country....
The World of Secret Wars
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - The CIA’s recipe behind rendition was simple: torture is illegal in the US and hence prisoners were transported to other countries where similar legal constraints do not exist so that interrogations using tactics such...
Still No Aid for Women Raped, Tortured in Bosnian War
by Lisa Anderson, TrustLaw, UK - Nearly two decades after war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hundreds of women who survived rape and torture in the conflict are still seeking reparations and justice, with only 40 cases of sexual violence...
The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis
by Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn, USA - The Bush administration set rules of engagement that resulted in the willful killing and indiscriminate slaughter of civilians. In particular, U.S. troops in Iraq operated in "free-fire zones," with orders to shoot everything...
Srebrenica and Rwanda Massacre Lawyers Compare Trials
by Jannie Schipper, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Is the United Nations responsible for the mass murders that took place in Srebrenica and Rwanda? Or are the national UN peacekeepers who were deployed there accountable?...
Uncomfortable Truths: War Crimes in the Balkans
by Elira Çanga, Balkan Insight, Serbia - Across the Balkans many survivors of the bloody conflicts of the 1990s still don’t know what happened to their missing loved ones. In Kosovo, even discussing the suffering of other ethnic communities is...
Ratko Mladić's arrest: A Start, but Let It Not Obscure How Much More Is Needed for Justice
by Heather McRobie and Sadzida Tulic, OpenDemocracy, UK - Poisonous ethno-nationalist political rhetoric, genocide denial and the celebration of war-time leaders are still routinely permitted in the discourse of Bosnian politicians, the media and citizens – if ‘citizens’ is the...
War Crimes Trial of Congo's Former Vice President Begins in The Hague
by Constanze von Kotze, Deutsche Welle, Germany - On Monday the trial of former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba begins at the International Criminal Court. He's charged with war crimes committed seven years ago in the Central African Republic....
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Indictment After 31 Years
by Parvathi Menon, The Hindu, India - The indictment pronounced by the Co-Investigation judges of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal against former Khmer Rouge leaders comes 31 years after the fall of the regime, and 12 years after its military...
UN Women Agency Must Confront Wartime Violence
by Barbara Crossette, The Nation, USA - Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are demanding that the new office take...
Cowering in Fear
by Elizabeth Palchik Allen, The New Republic, USA - Sudan's president has been charged with genocide—so why aren't African nations confronting him?...
Silence and Shame Shield Srebrenica Rapists from Justice
by Nidžara Ahmetašević, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The reluctance of women survivors from the town to talk about their own sufferings – and the stigma that still surrounds rape – has allowed a grave crime to go unpunished....
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