Military Offence / War Crime
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Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing
For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern…
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Palestinian probe finds journalist ’murdered’ by Israeli soldier
The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Al Jazeera have accused Israeli forces of killing Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 when she…
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Tortured to death: the 14 Cypriot men killed by British in 50s uprising
At least 14 Cypriots were tortured then murdered by UK forces during an armed uprising in the late 1950s, according…
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Ukraine is accusing Russia of war crimes. Here’s what we know about the mass grave in a Bucha churchyard
Shocking images have shown mass graves and dead civilians lying in the streets in the town of Bucha, after Ukrainians…
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We Must Pass the Torch of Holocaust Remembrance
One of the fundamental tenets of Holocaust education has always been the power of personal testimony; the idea that the…
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Cyprus: Turkish Occupation and Unpunished Crimes Against Women and Children
On December 16 and 17, Democracy Today, an NGO that focuses on human rights issues, organized its annual international conference in…
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Tortured to death: Myanmar mass killings revealed
Eyewitnesses and survivors said that soldiers, some as young as 17, rounded up villagers before separating the men and killing…
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Why impunity for war crimes could jeopardise Libya’s road to peace
The report chronicled accounts of rights violations ranging from arbitrary detention to torture, murder, slavery, sexual violence, the recruitment of…
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How Humane Wars are Inhumane
Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War argues that efforts to make war more ethical have…
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War crimes likely committed since 2016, UN probe finds
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including…
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The untouchables: Top detectives to investigate ‘disgraceful’ kill squad
Until now, it has been unclear what the final report of the heavily redacted Brereton inquiry was referring to in…
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Serbian secret police chiefs face verdict over atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia
The longest running war crimes case will come to a head on Wednesday with a verdict at The Hague tribunal…
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How the ‘good war’ went bad: elite soldiers from Australia, UK and US face a reckoning
“Whatever we do … ,” one Australian special forces soldier said of his service in Afghanistan, “I can tell you…
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Liberia: Milestone Swiss Trial for Wartime Atrocities
(Geneva) – The trial of a former Liberian rebel leader arrested in Switzerland for alleged war crimes during Liberia’s first civil war…
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How do we come to terms with Australian war crimes?
To restrict the focus just to those servicemen accused of war crimes would be a mistake, as would too narrow…
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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: UN warns of war crimes as deadline looms
Fighting between Ethiopia’s central government and forces in Tigray has been going on for almost three weeks. BBC Hundreds have…
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