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Leaked UN Report Alleges War Crimes by Sri Lanka
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS -- Excerpts of a leaked U.N. report find "credible allegations" of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Sri Lankan government in the final showdown against the separatist rebel group Tamil Tigers, or LTTE. The report was produced by an independent panel of experts studying accountability issues arising from alleged human rights violations committed by both sides during the last phases of the conflict, which ended a protracted civil war in the South Asian country in May 2009. Handout / AFP / Getty Images This screen grab taken from ...
General Hailed as Croatian Hero Convicted of War Crimes
By not in system - AOL NewsTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A commander hailed by Croats as a hero of the Balkan conflict was convicted of war crimes by a U.N. court Friday and sentenced to 24 years in prison for a campaign of shelling, shootings and expulsions aimed at driving Serbs out of a Croatian border region in 1995. The conviction of Gen. Ante Gotovina was a blow to the Croatian view of its wartime generals as national heroes who reclaimed Croatian land from a more powerful Serb force. Michel Porro, Getty Images Ante Gotovina appears at the War Crimes Tribunal in December 2005 in The Hague, Netherlands. ...
NATO to Libya: What Seems to Be the Problem?
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As War Crimes Trial Nears End, Many Liberians Hope for President's Return
By Emily Schmall - AOL NewsMONROVIA, Liberia -- With President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague nearing an end after three years, many Liberians hope he will be brought home -- to a hero's welcome. Take Fasu Donzo, a lanky motorbike taxi driver. Now 31, he fought as a child soldier in Taylor's army and was known as General Mosquito "because I bite." "I'm just praying that Charles Taylor will go free so that he can come back to do his normal business," Donzo told AOL News. "He's a leader, a strong man. We miss him and we expect him back." Donzo was among many Liberians to express their support for the ...
Prosecutor: Top Kenya Officials Are War Criminals
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- The International Criminal Court's lead prosecutor said today he wants top Kenyan officials, including the country's deputy prime minister, charged with crimes against humanity for the bloody chaos that followed the 2007 election. The allegations include murder, persecution and rape committed during the widespread violence. At a news conference today in the Hague, Netherlands, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked judges to charge six men, including Kenya's former police commissioner, its former higher education minister and a prominent radio talk show host. They are accused ...
US Sgt. Accused of 'Unspeakable Cruelty' in Afghanistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 10) -- The alleged ringleader of a rogue U.S. Army unit accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport and collecting body parts as souvenirs used his natural leadership ability to lure junior soldiers down a "dark path" to "unspeakable cruelty," an Army prosecutor said at a hearing. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is accused of leading a conspiracy to target and kill random Afghans, of stealing teeth and fingers as kill trophies and of intimidating other soldiers to join the spree or keep quiet about it. The 25-year-old made his first appearance Tuesday in a military courtroom in Washington ...
Hearing Begins in Alleged Plot to Kill Afghans for Sport
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (Sept. 27) - A soldier's videotaped statements describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians came under scrutiny Monday at a hearing into one of the most serious war-crimes cases from the war in Afghanistan. Peter Millett, AP In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, center, is shown as investigating officer Col. Thomas Molloy, right, and Morlock's attorney, Michael Waddington, look on Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Morlock is accused of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. ...
US Troops Allegedly Took Afghan Fingers as Souvenirs
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- In one of the most grisly war crimes investigations to date, 12 American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly murdered Afghan civilians for sport and collected bits of their fingers as war souvenirs. Five of the soldiers have been charged with killing three Afghan civilians in January, February and May of this year. Seven of their comrades are accused of helping them cover up the murders and beating up another U.S. soldier -- an alleged whistle-blower fresh out of basic training who reported his platoon mates for smoking hashish stolen from Afghans. All ...
3 Key Discrepancies in the Big Celebrity 'Blood Diamond' Testimonies
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- The testimony of British supermodel Naomi Campbell at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor last week has today been directly contradicted by that of two other star witnesses, her former agent, Carole White, and actress Mia Farrow. Who's telling the truth? The distinction is a critical one, as the prosecution's case rests on proving that Taylor was involved with the blood diamond trade in Sierra Leone. If it is found that Campbell knew for certain it was Taylor who had given her diamonds at a charity dinner party 13 years ago, it could sink him. If the ...
Where Did Naomi Campbell's Missing Blood Diamonds Go?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- "The case of the missing diamonds" might read like the introduction to a great mystery novel or heist film, but today it perfectly described the real-life situation that unfolded at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, where British supermodel Naomi Campbell testified that she did indeed accept several "very small, dirty-looking stones" 13 years ago from men she later learned were associated with the former president of Liberia, but that she no longer had them in her possession. So where did the alleged rough conflict diamonds go, exactly? Nobody, let alone Campbell, seems to ...
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