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 [...]
YEMEN: Rights Group Alleges War Crimes
April 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Charles Fromm WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (IPS) – The Yemeni government and Houthi rebels should investigate allegations that war crimes took place during recent hostilities between the two groups in the northern region of the country, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Wednesday. ”It is time to [...]
POLITICS: Sri Lanka Locks Horns with UN over Experts’ Panel
March 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Mar 10 (IPS) – The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, this time over the creation of an experts’ panel on the island’s human rights record. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon wants to appoint this panel, [...]
A difficult week for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
March 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Heather McRobie, 5 March 2010 Link to the original article on openDemocracy.net The ICTY’s struggle to prosecute war criminals causes a further decline in credibility in times when progress is vital for Croatia and the relation between Serbia and Bosnia. It seems strange to think now that, until recently, the ICTY [...]
KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing
November 19, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis PRISTINA, Nov 19 (IPS) – Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo’s parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore – a [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
November 5, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (IPS) – A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favourably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in [...]
SRI LANKA: U.S. Govt Report Adds to Pressure for War Crimes Probe
October 22, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) – The U.S. State Department released a report Thursday detailing possible violations of the laws of war in Sri Lanka during the first half of 2009, adding to pressure for an independent, international investigation into alleged atrocities committed by government forces and Liberation [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Body Backs War Crimes Charges on Israel, Hamas
October 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) – The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) approved a resolution Friday endorsing war crimes charges against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as spelled out in a report by a four-member international fact-finding mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. As expected, [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
September 15, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) – A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year’s brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women [...]
US-AFGHANISTAN: ”New” Bagram Rules More of the Same?
September 14, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, Sep 14 (IPS) – Human rights activists and legal experts reacted swiftly Monday to disclosures that the U.S. government is planning to introduce new measures it claims would give inmates at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison more opportunities to challenge their detention. Their views range from [...]
