A Sudanese militia leader has been found guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity more than 20 years ago in the Darfur region. Ali Muhammad Ali…
Read more Sudan militia leader convicted of war crimes during Darfur warRiek Machar has been under house arrest since March [AFP via Getty Images] A special court in South Sudan has ruled that it does have the jurisdiction to…
Read more South Sudan court rejects ex-VP’s bid to halt murder and treason trialSouth Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in a move that some fear could reignite the country’s civil war.…
Read more South Sudan vice-president charged with murder and treasonSumaya Abu Ajwa had woken up for the Fajr prayer with her two foster daughters, 16-year-old Nuseiba and 14-year-old Retaj, and their mother. She and the girls’ mother…
Read more Echoes of a massacre: Tales from Israel’s attack on al-Tabin SchoolCNN — Here’s a look at genocide, the attempted or intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, whether in wartime or peace. The Convention on…
Read more Genocide Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here is a look at the life of Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army, sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other…
Read more Ratko Mladic Fast Facts | CNNAnnual amnesty marking Independence Day takes place during crisis in the north that poses threat to military rulers. Myanmar’s military government has pardoned more than 9,000 prisoners, including…
Read more Myanmar military government pardons more than 9,000 prisonersIsrael’s campaign of relentless bombardment against the Gaza Strip had been raging for three weeks when the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked to address the heavy…
Read more Israel says Gaza war is like WWII. Experts say it’s ‘justifying brutality’Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – In the smart offices of a law firm located among the skyscrapers of the Malaysian capital, 85-year-old Lim Kok’s thoughts turn back to a…
Read more Batang Kali: A British massacre in colonial Malaya and a fight for justiceUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the military and rival paramilitary RSF to ‘stop this conflict now’. The United States has determined that warring factions in Sudan…
Read more US declares warring factions in Sudan have committed war crimesAs bombs rain down upon neighbourhoods and refugee camps in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian families are setting up temporary homes in an unlikely place: hospital common areas. Tents…
Read more ‘We have nothing’: Families seek safety from bombs inside Gaza hospitalsGaza City – As another Israeli air raid thundered, eight-year-old Pretty Abu-Ghazzah stood shell-shocked, while her five-year-old twin brothers rushed to their mother Esraa’s arms. Pretty’s youngest sibling,…
Read more Games, YouTube and hugs: How Gaza mothers calm terrified children amid warBreivik, 44, is serving 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in shootings and a bombing attack in Norway in 2011. Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik…
Read more Norway’s far-right mass killer Breivik sues state over prison isolationInternational Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is wanted for arrest in Russia over war crimes charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for…
Read more ICC war crimes prosecutor ‘wanted’ in Russia over Putin warrantKremlin says International Criminal Court charges against Vladimir Putin are meaningless with respect to jurisdiction in Russia. United States President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin had clearly committed…
Read more US Biden says war crimes charge against Russia’s Putin justifiedA court in Seoul had ruled that Nguyen Thi Thanh be compensated for injuries sustained during a mass killing of Vietnamese civilians in 1968. South Korea’s government has…
Read more S Korea appeals ruling to compensate Vietnam War massacre victimA version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — A year into Russia’s…
Read more Why the US is accusing Russia of crimes against humanity and what that means | CNN PoliticsManila had argued it was conducting its own investigation into deaths under the controversial policy. The International Criminal Court has said it will reopen its investigation into possible…
Read more ICC to resume investigation into Philippines’s deadly drug warProtesters are calling for screenings of a new documentary by a Serbian-Canadian filmmaker to be cancelled across Europe, saying the “revisionist” film “whitewashes” war crimes committed during the…
Read more Protesters call for cancellation of ‘revisionist’ Serb filmThe UN Human Rights Council has voted not to debate the treatment of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang even after…
Read more ‘Genocide denial’: Anger as debate on Xinjiang rejected
