War crimes
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War crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas, UN says The UN’s human rights chief has said war crimes have been committed by both sides during the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Volker Turk, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said all suspected war crimes should be investigated and those responsible held…
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Israeli troops opened fire at “several people” among a crowd that surrounded aid trucks in Gaza, an Israeli source has told Reuters. The soldiers began firing after feeling under threat, the source said. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 104 people were killed waiting for aid near Gaza City, and another 280 wounded. The Israeli…
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza makes it complicit in what he described as war crimes against Palestinians. He also said he held the US responsible for the bloodshed of Palestinian children, women and the elderly in the Gaza…
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) will open two cases against Russian officials, the New York Times reported. A spokeswoman for the office of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said it “offers no comment about this story.” The New York Times said the first case involved Russia’s alleged abduction of Ukrainian children. The second case pertains to allegations that Moscow deliberately targets…
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Representatives of a group of nations working together to investigate war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are meeting in The Hague amid ongoing calls for those responsible for atrocities to be brought to justice. Tuesday’s coordination meeting at the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, of members of a Joint Investigation Team and International…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia. During the pre-recorded message that aired on the show Sunday, he likened the invasion to a deadly silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian people,…
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Russia has begun the process to expel several American diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Moscow, the State Department said Wednesday. The department said it received a list of diplomats on who have been declared “persona non grata” by the Russian foreign ministry. It didn’t say how many diplomats were affected by the order, which…
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Sudan’s transitional authorities and rebel groups from Darfur have agreed that those wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes in the region should appear before the tribunal, officials have said. The announcement was made on Tuesday in Juba, the capital of neighbouring South Sudan, where the two sides are engaged in peace talks. “We can only…
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An independent commission established by Myanmar’s government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. However, the commission, headed by a Philippine diplomat, said in a report given Monday to President Win Myint that there…
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An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens of others in an attack that the U.N. human rights chief said could amount to a war crime. The Tripoli-based government blamed the attack on forces associated with Gen. Khalifa Hifter,…
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A Myanmar government spokesman on Wednesday rejected a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”, Reuters noted. His comments came a day after the U.N report, which marked the first time the organisation has explicitly called for Myanmar officials…
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The international community on Monday supported the UN report, which called for an investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Rohingya Muslims. The report prepared by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar stated that human rights violations and abuses committed in…
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