Military Offence / War Crime
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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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It’s high time to question Australia’s culture of military hero-worship
As the wheels of justice begin a glacial grind along the dusty tracks of Australia’s alleged Special Air Service war…
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What war crimes did Australian soldiers commit in Afghanistan and will anyone go to jail?
For the last four years, the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) has been looking into rumours and allegations…
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Everything you need to know about the SAS war crimes report
The spotlight will be shone on the Australian Special Forces, which are used to operating in the shadows, revealing in…
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International Criminal Court officials sanctioned by US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the court of “illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction”. BBC The Hague-based…
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Keelty, Porter and the anti-corruption watchdog with fleas
The federal government is quite blatant about its lack of enthusiasm for an integrity body with teeth that will bite.…
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