Tag: Genocide

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2008-07-14 In the Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing 35,000 people and persecuting 2.5 million refugees.

Moreno-Ocampo charged Bashir with three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape, and two of war crimes.
2008-05-06 Ttorture, genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression all fall under jus cogens.
Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law."
This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation of a jus cogens prohibition.
-- Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties House Judiciary Committee
2007-06-12 Cambodian and international judges have adopted the internal rules for a tribunal to bring former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide to justice, giving a push ahead to delayed trial procedures. The rules were adopted in a plenary session of judicial officers of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
2007-04-10 Search engine Google and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an online mapping project to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities committed in Sudan's western Darfur region.
2007-02-26 The United Nations international court of justice cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide and complicity in genocide in Bosnia, in the 1992-1995 war.
2007-02-26 Serbia was guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the UN's international court of justice ruled.
2007-02 United Nations refugee agency warns that violence against civilians in Chad could turn into a genocide; it says killing tactics from neighbouring Darfur in Sudan are being used in eastern Chad.
2007-01-18 There were some 1,500 people at the demonstration.

Singer Charles Aznavour, Serge Klarsfeld, writer Bernard Henri Levy, French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and French Socialist Party General Secretary François Holland participated in the demonstration.

The demonstration was organized by the Coordination Council of French Armenian Associations.
2006-12-28 Israeli forces demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families in the Gaza Strip.
-- According to B'Tselem, Israeli human rights organization, in its annual report
2006-12-28 Israeli forces killed this last year one hundred and forty one children in the Palestinian occupied territories.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israel last year tripled in comparison to the previous year (around two hundred).
Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip.
-- According to B'Tselem, Israeli human rights organization, in its annual report












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