Tag: Crimes Against Humanity

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2009-03-04 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's arrest on charges of crimes against humanity.
2009-01-30 "I was just told by the Spanish foreign minister that Spain decided to change the legislation
In order to change the possibility of different organisations, political organisations, to abuse the legal system in Spain in order to put charges against Israelis and others that are fighting terror."
-- Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister of Israel, told journalists after a telephone conversation with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos
2008-12-09 "Preventive action must be taken immediately to offset the persisting and wide-ranging violations of the fundamental human right to life, and in view of the emerging situation that is producing a humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding day by day.
Israel still maintains its Gaza siege in its full fury, allowing only barely enough food and fuel to enter to stave off mass famine and disease
Such a policy of collective punishment initiated by Israel to punish Gazans for political developments within the Gaza Strip constitutes a continuing flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law."
-- Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, in a statement
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.
2008-07 The ICC -- ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- issued an arrest warrant against Omar al-Bashir, making him the third sitting head of state to be charged by an international court following Liberia's Charles Taylor and Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.

Moreno-Ocampo accused Bashir of orchestrating a campaign of genocide in Darfur, starting in 2003.

Bashir's government is blamed for playing a key planning role in the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 and displaced 2.5 million civilians over the past five years.
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
2007-04-27 The ICC -- ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- issued two arrest warrants against Ahmed Harun, former Minister for the Interior and current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb.

Both men were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004.
2006-07-23 The United Nations's emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, is shocked by the ruins he finds as he tours southern districts of Beirut. He says the large scale of the destruction, and its indiscriminate nature, renders it a violation of humanitarian law.
2006-06 Charles Taylor was taken to the detention center of the International Criminal Court in Scheveningen in The Hague.

Taylor faces trial in the Netherlands court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly overseeing the murder, rape and mutilation of thousands of people during Sierra Leone's bloody 10-year civil war.
2005-11 Former president of Chad, Hissene Habre, is arrested in Senegal over allegations of crimes against humanity.

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