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Genocide
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ICTR Appellate Hearing Begins
An appellate hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began this week for Gaspard Kanyarukiga, a businessman convicted of genocide and other war crimes for his role in the destruction…
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ICTR Appeals Chamber Reduces Prison Sentence
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has reduced the jail sentence of a former local official who was convicted last year of his role in…
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Executing Arrest Warrants Will End the Crimes in Darfur
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has renewed his call for the arrest and transfer of those alleged to have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, citing…
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Cambodia Tribunal Will Not Release Defendant
The United Nations-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia has ruled that Ieng Thirith, a 79-year-old former senior member of the Khmer Rouge who was found unfit to stand trial, will not be released…
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Chad Failed to Arrest al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided today that Chad has not met its obligation to fully cooperate with the court by failing to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir…
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ICTY Convicts Former Bosnian Security Officer for Contempt of Court
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced Dragomir Pecanac, a former security and intelligence officer in the Bosnian Serb armed forces, to three months in prison for…
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Khmer Rouge Defendant Denies Charges
Viet Nam, not the Khmer Rouge, is responsible for the genocide that led to the deaths of as many as two million Cambodians during the late 1970s, the former second-in-command…
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ICTY Reduces Charges in Mladic Trial in Order to Speed it Up
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today reduced the indictment against former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who faces genocide charges, to ensure a fair and expeditious trial. The…
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Former Cambodian Head of State Denies Responsibility for Genocide
A former Cambodian head of State during the rule of the notorious Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s told a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal yesterday that the genocide trial…
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Khmer Rouge Defendant Asserts that Charges are “Not True”
The second-in-command of the Khmer Rouge told a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal, where he is facing trial for genocide and other charges, that he had been trying to protect…