France Arrests Rwandan Millionaire Accused of Financing 1994 Genocide
PARIS — One of the most-wanted fugitives accused of financing the 1994 Rwanda genocide against the Tutsis was arrested in a Paris suburb early on...
Tag : War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Genocide Trial in Germany for Accused ISIS Member in Death of Yazidi Girl
BERLIN — An Iraqi man accused of being an Islamic State terrorist has gone on trial in a high court in Frankfurt accused of genocide,...
Germany Takes Rare Step in Putting Syrian Officers on Trial
BEIRUT, Lebanon — After her arrest for protesting against the government in Syria in 2011, Nouran Alghamian landed in a notorious interrogation center, locked in...
Madeleine Albright: The Best Response to the Coronavirus Is Resilience
My first memories are of an apartment in London on Kensington Park Road, with a tiny kitchen and two small rooms in the wartime 1940s....
Syria Used Chemical Weapons 3 Times in One Week, Watchdog Says
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An investigative team with the international group that monitors compliance with the chemical weapons ban accused the Syrian government on Wednesday of...
As Pandemic Rages, Sri Lanka’s President Pardons a War Criminal
Sri Lanka’s president has pardoned a soldier who was sentenced to death for killing eight civilians during the country’s civil war, leading to accusations that...
Some Paleontologists Seek Halt to Myanmar Amber Fossil Research
Fossils preserved in amber are giving paleontologists exceptional glimpses into the age of the dinosaurs, be it through the preserved tail of a dinosaur that...
The Mission to Hunt Nazis Has Become a Race Against Time
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — It is perhaps fitting that the decades-long search for Nazi collaborators living on United States soil may have reached its conclusion...
I.C.C. Allows Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry to Proceed
LONDON — An international court ruled on Thursday that its chief prosecutor could open an investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any...
U.N. Panel Says Russia Bombed Syrian Civilian Targets, a War Crime
GENEVA — United Nations investigators said on Monday that Russia had committed war crimes in Syria by carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian targets in...