It was the Guatemalan version of a form of information warfare now familiar the world over, with a homegrown name: the net center. Interviews conducted in Guatemala with researchers, journalists, activists, and other sources, as well as reports in the Guatemalan press, show how net centers are now used ...

Overcoming intimidation by community members and the murder of her daughter and husband, likely for her decision to testify at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, she mobilized four members of SEVOTA to testify against Akayesu. Although rape has been considered an international war crime ...

The Council started the general debate on Wednesday, 21 March after hearing the presentation of reports on Burundi, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, ..... Driven by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the act of a Jew living in the corner of Jerusalem, was seen as a war crime.

In Blood On Our Hands, I concluded my account of the U.S. war in Iraq with a similar call for war reparations, and for war crimes prosecutions of the senior U.S. and U.K. civilian and military officials responsible for the “supreme international crime” of aggression and other systematic war crimes in Iraq.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's recent decision to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) should come as no surprise. The ICC – a court of last resort to try those most responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity – inevitably runs up against political ...

These acts “constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the report reads. The commission also identified commanders who may bear responsibility for the crimes in a confidential dossier made available to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many of the crimes in the report have also ...

The Carter administration flew Guard commanders out of the country in planes with Red Cross markings (a war crime), and began to reconstitute the Guard on ... Of the four Central American countries where Oxfam had a significant presence (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), only in ...

But the Palestinian and Arab world's reaction to the Israeli government's atrocities and its rejection of peace cannot be based solely on a foundation of frustration, anger or ... Doing business with the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and inside East Jerusalem is an international war crime.

This weekend's attack on the Intercontinental Hotel was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible for war crimes. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the hours-long attack on ...

Samayoa was a paramilitary commander during the bloodiest phase of Guatemala's civil war, when tens of thousands of civilians died at the hands of government forces. Public prosecutors in Guatemala want him to stand trial there for murder and manslaughter. And among Guatemalan migrants living here ...

By initiating a war of aggression, by loosing “shock and awe” on the capital of a nation that had not attacked ours, President Bush committed a war crime. Indeed, it was the first in the list of crimes for which the leaders of Nazi Germany were indicted at Nuremberg after World War II — the ultimate crime ...

11_18_MS13 Suspected members of the gang MS-13 remain handcuffed under custody at Isidro Menendez Justice Court in San Salvador, on September 12, 2017. Security forces in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala on Monday and Tuesday arrested more than 1,000 suspected gang members and ...

Ex Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic awaits verdict of war crimes trial ... UN judges will decide next week the fate of the Bosnian Serb general, who's charged with war crimes in Bosnia during the 1990s. Now Reading: ... He may be one of the highest profile war crime suspects in modern European history.

“The Houthis' launching of an indiscriminate ballistic missile at a predominantly civilian airport is an apparent war crime,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East ... or indiscriminately directed toward populated areas or civilian objects, such attacks violate the laws of war, and may amount to war crimes.

Ms. Bensouda's statement said that "there is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in connection with the armed conflict in Afghanistan." The statement continues that Bensouda's investigation will examine events that took place after May 2003, "as ...

Also in 2017, the Court had unsealed an arrest warrant against Al‑Tuhamy Mohamad Khaled, suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes .... as well as ordered the commission of, murder as a war crime in the context of incidents in Benghazi, Libya, or surrounding areas between June 2016 and ...

(New York) – The attack on a Shia mosque in Kabul claimed by the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) on August 25, 2017, is a serious violation of the laws of war, and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The hours-long attack on the Imam Zaman mosque in the ...

Jose Ortiz Morales pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to immigration fraud. Federal agents are also tying him to a 1982 massacre of 250 villagers in Guatemala. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials received a tip in 2015 from Guatemalan prosecutors that said a war crime fugitive may ...