Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Jun 16, 2011 (IPS) – Thousands of civilians are virtually being held hostage in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, where the outlawed Taliban have been refusing them passage to safer areas ahead of a government plan to intensify army offensives. Some were able [...]
Arrest Takes Serbia Towards Reconciliation, and the EU
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – "Nothing can bring back our husbands or children, but this means so much for us; the man who ordered them killed is finally going to face justice," says Hajra Catic, head of the Women of Srebrenica Association, following [...]
CAMBODIA: Convicted Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Appeals Sentence
March 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Irwin Loy PHNOM PENH, Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) – The only Khmer Rouge figure to be prosecuted by a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal here is arguing that his conviction should be overturned. Lawyers for Kaing Guek Eav, also known as ‘Duch’, told the tribunal Monday that [...]
More Iraqi Prison Abuses Exposed on Wikileaks
October 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 24, 2010 (IPS) – The publication of a motherlode of secret field reports from the Iraq War are shining a bright light on heretofore unknown or underreported suspicions about the power of private security contractors and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by [...]
Sri Lanka Challenges Post-War Human Rights Probe
October 14, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14, 2010 (IPS) – When Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris was at the United Nations last month, he challenged human rights groups to appear before a government-appointed ‘Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’ (LLRC) probing human rights violations during the [...]
BURMA: Call for War Crimes Inquiry Foils U.N. Envoy’s Trip
August 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Aug 9, 2010 (IPS) – When a U.N. human rights investigator for Burma called for an international inquiry to look into possible war crimes by the country’s military regime, he added significant weight to similar calls that had been made in other quarters. But [...]
CAMBODIA: Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer
July 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jul 27, 2010 (IPS) – For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday’s verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new [...]
BALKANS: Yugoslavia Tribunal Faces Uncertain Legacy
July 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) – On the eve of World Day for International Justice, launched to recognise the emerging body of international criminal law, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) faces an uncertain legacy. Initially slated to finish its work [...]
SUDAN: Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes – Aid Agencies
June 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Frank Mulder UTRECHT, Netherlands, Jun 9 (IPS) – The entry of a Swedish-led oil consortium into southern Sudan in 1997 triggered civil war and crimes against humanity, claims a European coalition of aid agencies. The European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS) has called on the Swedish, Austrian [...]
Kinshasa Rejects Report of Congolese Army Atrocities
May 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Emmanuel Chaco MBANDAKA, DR Congo, May 3 (IPS) – A report alleging that government troops summarily executed fifty civilians in early April in fighting around Mbandaka, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northwestern Équateur Province has been rejected by the government. ”About fifty Congolese civilians were killed [...]
