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Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan is to ‘convey concerns to Russian authorities’ as Western powers accuse Russia of war crimes.
Professor of international criminal justice, Dr Niamh Howlin, says countries and individuals can be held responsible for the things they do during war time.
This would be the first time Ireland is involved in an international witness protection programme.
The man had told his defence lawyer he was “a Muslim who believes in justice.”
The former Bosnian Serb leader was sentenced to four decades in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
The International Criminal Court has convicted Jean-Pierre Bemba on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The African Union has accused South Sudanese forces of extreme violence since the country’s civil war began nearly two years ago.
American allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE are leading the coalition battling rebels in Yemen.
Omar Khadr arrived in Guantanamo Bay aged 15.
Victims in Croatia might soon get justice after war crimes.
Benjamin Netanyahu called Israel’s soldiers “the most moral army in the world”.
Amnesty International says thousands of people may have been targeted in the war crimes in Iraq.
The group says Israel showed a “shocking disregard for Gaza civilians”.
The international community is pouring its efforts into containing the criminal militancy of Isis, but we should turn our attention to funding Ebola emergency relief.
Massacres, hostage-taking, torture and sexual violence. These are the war crimes happening in Syria, yet why don’t we care, asks GOAL CEO Barry Andrews.
For more than 60 years German courts only prosecuted Nazi war criminals if evidence showed they personally committed atrocities.
The Security Council wants to bring the crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.
The resolution will seek to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.
Ratko Mladic faces 11 charges for his role in Bosnia’s brutal 1992-95 conflict in which 100,000 people died.
A UN war crimes tribunal says that Ratko Mladic “has a case to answer”.
The court will address a report which found that some of Kosovo’s leaders were involved in war crimes – including harvesting and selling organs – during the conflict.
This month marks 30 years since the end of the bloody dictatorship – but thousands are still missing.
A legal error meant that many people found guilty of war crimes now have to undergo retrials.
Victims of the former Liberian president’s regime spoke of their relief after his 50-year jail term was upheld.
Using chemical weapons and targeting innocent civilians are war crimes. But so is silence – and every day we sit back while this slaughter continues is another day that we have facilitated the killing of innocent people, writes Maurice McQuillan.
A former Nazi concentration camp guard, who is accused of sending over 15,000 people to their deaths, has died, his lawyer said today.
Violence erupted during protests yesterday with 23 people shot dead after police opened fire in clashes with demonstrators.
The former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj had been accused of murder and torture during the Kosovo war – but has been found not guilty.
Tribunal overturned the convictions of two Croatian generals for murdering and expelling Serb civilians during a 1995 military blitz.
Two former wartime generals, still hailed as heroes in Croatia, are appealing a verdict by the UN Yugoslav war crimes court.
Radovan Karadzic opens his defence before the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court today.
Ieng Thirith, the notorious regime’s highest ranking woman, had been charged with crimes against humanity, genocide, homicide, torture and religious persecution.
The panel also concluded that anti-government armed groups committed war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, but at a lesser frequency and scale.
Eldest son of the late dictator says he cannot get a fair trial in Libya.
“The world does not forget or forgive crimes like these,” Navi Pillay said of reported atrocities against Syrian civilians.
The trial of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic got underway yesterday.
The former Bosnian Serb military chief is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The trial of the former Bosnian Serb commander was suspended over a month ago because of ‘irregularities’ in how evidence was handled.
The trial had originally been suspended on 17 May and was due to resume next week.