Several Dutch Soldiers who were present in Serbia in 1995 are coming forward in defense of Radovan Karadzic, on trial for alleged war crimes against the muslim populace. They paint quite a different picture than what is commonly portrayed by the media.
Just kidding.
No, that would be Osama Bin Laden's chauffeur, not George Bush's. See today's story about Bin Laden's chauffeur, Salim Hamdan, getting a sentence of 5 1/2 years. He's already served 5 years but don't expect him to get out in half a year with "time served" as he is expected to be held indefinitely as an "enemy combatant" despite the military jury verdict's acknow
Just kidding.
No, that would be Osama Bin Laden's chauffeur, not George Bush's. See today's story about Bin Laden's chauffeur, Salim Hamdan, getting a sentence of 5 1/2 years. He's already served 5 years but don't expect him to get out in half a year with "time served" as he is expected to be held indefinitely as an "enemy combatant" despite the military jury verdict's acknow
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is due to be formally charged by the UN war crimes tribunal.
Mr Karadzic was indicted on 11 counts of war crimes in connection with the 1990s Bosnian conflict, but the exact charges will only be revealed in court.
(…) Mr Karadzic left Belgrade on Wednesday hours after clashes at [...]
In a story that didn't get much attention over the weekend, what with the racial slurs of the New Yorker Magazine against Barack Obama and the refusal of the mainstream press to cover McCain's week from hell, The New York Times quietly reported Friday that the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using torture on prisoners that would make the Bush administration guilty of war crimes. MSNBC had a se
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The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. In a preface to a Physicians for Human Rights report based on medical examinations of former detainees, Taguba adds an epilogue to his own investigation. read more | digg story
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And Here Comes A Barrage of Headlines
UK ‘complicit in Ethiopian war crimes’
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last updated: 4:17 PM BST 12/06/2008
Britain is “complicit̶
A four-star general Monday repeatedly denied being influenced by any outside forces in bringing charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani resulting from the 2005 killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha. Under questioning from Chessani's defense attorney, Gen. James Mattis (pictured) said he was never contacted by anyone from the Pentagon, Congress, the secretary of the Navy's office or Marine headqua
It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American military and CIA operatives against terror suspects detained in U.S.-run detention centers.According to a report by the Justice Department's inspector general, FBI agents at the facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, began compiling a "war crimes file" in 2002 to document allegations of abu
Tony Blair accused of War Crimes Anthony Charles Lynton Blair on Trial in The Hagueby David Halpin war crimes photos removed David Halpin looks at the litany of crimes for which former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will have to account sooner or later. On the same day the BBC reported that former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was to go on trial after f
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A Croatian court has convicted a former general, Mirko Norac, of war crimes against Serbs.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison for failing to stop his soldiers killing and torturing Serbs in 1993.
A second general on trial, Rahim Ademi, was acquitted of the same charges. They were the highest-ranking [...]
Isareli unforgetable war crimes against humanity Sarid: In 1967, Israeli army executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers� Former Meretz party leader in Israel, Yossi Sarid said in an interview with the Egyptian daily, Al Ahram, that the Israeli army executed 250 unarmed Egyptian soldiers at the end of the 1967 war. AP Archive Photo ot the 1967 war
During last week's big media focus on Bittergate, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News took his opportunity when he had access to Barack Obama to ask him about how he would deal with the alleged (and I use that term loosely) war crimes of the Bush administration.Here's his response:What I would want to do is to have my Justice Department and my Attorney General immediately review the information that's already there and to find out are there inquiries that need to be pursued. I can't prejudge that because we don't have access to all the material right now. I think that you are right, if crimes have been committed, they should be investigated. You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt becaus
From: 411 Politics Fact or Fiction 04.14.08: Week 85 4. This week, on Chris Matthew's show, in response to Matthews asking the question, "tell me something I don't know," blogger Andrew Sullivan of Atlantic.com said, "this man, these men [Bush and other high level administration officials] will be indicted for war crimes." Though we're not sure they will, this man, these men OUGHT to be tried for war crimes.Tom Head: FICTION. George W. Bush DESERVES to be indicted for war crimes, but I don't know whether he ought to be. We need to ask ourselves, first, who it is that would be doing the indicting. If it's a future Democratic administration, then it will be seen as a partisan attack writ large and will present no moral victory, even in the event of a conviction. If it's a
LACK OF PUBLIC SECURITY: Kjetil Tronvoll calls attention to several serious flaws in regard to the Ethiopian trial against the war criminals of the brutal Derg Regime. Photo: Ola SætherThe Ethiopian legal system has accused several thousands of brutal war crimes. Now the war crimes tribunal has itself violated fundamental human rights. Tekst: Yngve Vogt, Translated by Kathrine Torday Gulden (Published April 08 2008) Ethiopia's trial against the criminals of war from the harsh Derg regime (1974-1991) undermines human rights, says Associate Professor Kjetil Tronvoll at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He has studied the political development in Ethiopia since 1990 and has attended the elections as a researcher and election monitor both in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Well, thats putting it bluntly... who knows what will happen. One thing I can agree with Bush on is that indeed - history will be the judge.
Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. But on this morning's Chris Matthews' show, someone finally fired a shot. As we mentioned in this
Scott Horton has written about the Convention Against Torture and has described the use of torture at Abu Ghraib:
Enforced nudity. This technique is adopted for purposes of degrading and humiliating the prisoner, heightening his senses of vulnerability, weakness and shame. Enforced nudity also enhances other techniques, particularly hypothermia.
Starvation. As Davis notes, when the prisoner is [...]
<!-- --> In interviews with Salon, several veterans from the group described incidents in Iraq that they believed constituted wrongdoing by the U.S. military, including disproportionate use of air power resulting in civilian deaths. The soldiers were unable to provide Salon with any conclusive evidence of war crimes. But as the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq approaches, the
Here's the video from CNN telling about the bill that passed the House. I don't know if it passed the Senate. I'll check it out and let you know.UPDATE: When you watch the video, you find out that this bill wasn't something passed in the last few days. It was passed in mid-2006 before the Congress was switched over to the Democrats.This being the case, I have to assume that the bill Cafferty is referring to is the Military Commissions Act, which is one of the most shameful pieces of legislation in American history. This is the same bill that eliminated habeas corpus, which is a fancy way of describing the right to say, "Hey! You got the wrong guy!"The habeas corpus aspect of the Military Commissions Act is well known to the public, but the immunity portion was news to me. Unfortunately, the immunity for Bush and his co-conspirators that Cafferty refers to is there, probably because the bill came into existence to protect Rumsfeld's war criminal ass.The Military Commissions Act cam
Japan is still in denial over their crimes from WW2, as their PM's recent actions show, and even in Canada, there's been plenty of anger:TOKYO–Anyone who doubts the Japanese army forced Asian women into sexual slavery in World War II should "face the truth," South Korea's foreign minister said yesterday as outrage grew over comments by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence of the enslavement.Women's rights activists in the Philippines and a group of politicians in South Korea denounced the remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday that there was no proof so-called "comfort women" were forced into prostitution during the war.Chinese-Canadian politicians and community leaders also called on Ottawa to publicly condemn the comments.But one of the harshest reactions came from 81-year-old Hilaria Bustamante of Manila, who said she was kept as a sex slave in a Japanese garrison for a year in 1942 as a 16-year-old."What (Abe) said has angered me," she said. "
The President that fought so hard to bring war crimes against Saddam Hussein... moving closer to being charged with war crimes himself?
Big news. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that President Bush's administration's plan to put Guantnamo detainees on trial before military commissions violates international law and concluded that the commissions were unauthorized by federal statute.
The Washington Post wrote today, Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, definitively curbing the Bush White House's assertion of nearly unlimited executive power in a time of war, puts the other two branches of government back in business... The ruling even raises the possibility that U.S. forces and Bush administration officials could be tried for war crimes.
The Court says a provision of the Geneva Convention called Common Article 3 applies to the Guantnamo detainees and is enforceable in federal court for their protection. (read that here). President Bush for war-crimes? Everyone is accusing everyon
The "Probing" of war crimes from uzer.orgI am at a loss for words right now, therefore I won't bother trying to ease you into this. You must look at these (intensely graphic) pictures. It's one thing to know that illegal aggression can hardly result in liberation, it's another thing to actually see scenes like this. Scenes of Iraqi prisoners of war repeatedly humiliated by being stripped, forced into oral sex with each other, ganged into orgies. Women raped. Our muslim Women raped. And to still have the nerve to call this liberation. That we're being helped by them. That we're being fed by them.How would you title your report on your news web site, or how would you speak of such atrocities on your news tv channel? What kind of words would do justice to such a situation? "Crimes Against Humanity in Iraq"? "Cruel and Unusual Torture by American Soldiers"? I'm not very imaginative but CBS's "Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed" hardly cuts it.BBC:Gen Richard Myers, chairman of the Jo
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Liberia’s former President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the U.N.-backed court.
“I cannot participate in a charade that does no justice to the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone,” the Liberian warlord said in a letter read by a defense lawyer, who said Taylor now wanted to represent himself.
“I choose not to be a figleaf of legitimacy for this court,” Taylor said in the letter.
Taylor, 59, faces charges of instigating murder, rape, mutilation and the recruitment of child soldiers in the 1991-2002 civil war that left 50,000 dead.
He has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a case that prosecutors and human rights campaigners hope will send a signal that nobody can escape punishment for atrocities, including heads of state.
Even among Africa’s horrific wars, the fighting in Sierra Leone
