war crimes trials in Guatemala

Huge numbers died in civil wars—most of them at the hands of death squads and other armed forces working for US-supported military regimes. .... later the Department of Homeland Security, which has overseen the program since DHS was established—to be so unstable, because of war, crime, natural ...

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 ...

George W. Bush is hardly the first disgraced Republican president and war criminal to worm his way back into American esteem. Richard .... 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 ...

George W. Bush is hardly the first disgraced Republican president and war criminal to worm his way back into American esteem. Richard .... 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 ...

“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.

While trials were the Court's most visible and resource-intensive work, she said, much was also happening in its Pre‑Trial and Appeals divisions. Outlining some of that work — including the unsealing of the arrest warrant against Al‑Tuhamy Mohamad Khaled, suspected of crimes against humanity and war ...

“As the first two countries to hold trials and convict people for atrocities in Syria, Sweden and Germany are putting war criminals on notice that they will have to ... Consistent with fair trial standards, both countries should explore options to increase protections in these cases for witnesses' families in Syria, ...

(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 ...

(London) – The United Kingdom authorities' arrest of Agnes Reeves Taylor in London for her alleged role in torture committed during Liberia's first civil war is a meaningful step for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Reeves Taylor, the former wife of imprisoned former Liberian president Charles Tayler ...

The Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal, in a decision the US military commissions prosecutor endorsed in 2013, ruled that for an individual to aid and abet a war crime, they must provide practical assistance that has a “substantial effect” on the commission of a crime; and know or be aware the assistance has ...

I am most certainly not a liberal, and the Barbary Wars are irrelevant. Liberals think that the Constitution is a "living document" that authorizes such Progressive government programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Federal Reserve and fiat money ...

Guatemala made significant strides in ending impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict in a historic trial in March. In the first successful prosecution for sexual violence committed during Guatemala's military conflict from 1960-1996, a ...

Already the object of ICMP's attention have been the site of the World Trade Center in New York, advising on how to identify those killed on 9/11; Guatemala and El Salvador, searching for the missing from US-led "dirty wars" of the 1980s; and South ...

Over the last 20 years, rigorous statistical analysis of patterns of killing has helped bring mass murderers to justice in trials for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. For example, in the trial of former Yugoslav .... In the 2013 trial ...

(Despite the significance of the guilty verdict, prosecutors from the Guatemalan Public Ministry had initially requested that Reyes and Asij be sentenced with 1290 years in prison for war crimes, plus 50 years in prison for each assassination charge ...

In the Q'eqchi' language there are four ways to refer to sexual violence, yet muxuk is the term Guatemalan women of the Sepur Zarco community have chosen to use when talking about the war crimes perpetrated against them. Neither Spanish ... The Sepur ...

Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been sentenced to 120 and 240 years in prison after they were found guilty of crimes against humanity, including the systematic rape and enslavement of 11 women in the northeastern Sepur Zarco military base during a ...

Incidents such as this don't garner much attention in the United States, but in Denmark this is considered a war crime, and Pedersen is sent home to stand trial. The evidence is heavily against Pedersen, but if he can prove that he personally saw an ...

"The Guatemalan state has the obligation of investigating, judging and punishing gender crimes," she said. Jo-Marie Burt, a trial observer with The Washington Office on Latin America, told teleSUR that it is important to understand that rape is not ...

Last week, a historic trial began in Guatemala. It's believed to be the ... Two former military officers stand accused of murder, kidnapping and keeping nearly a dozen indigenous women as domestic laborers and sex slaves during the country's 36-year ...

These crimes occurred under ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who is currently facing retrial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, including the slaughter of 1,771 Maya Ixil indigenous people in Guatemala's Quiche region in 1982-83, Reuters ...