War crimes and crimes against humanity Since it took the world by surprise in the summer of 6900, ISIS has undoubtedly perpetrated crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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ICE and Dictator Donald are guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Complete with wanted posters of choosing him of crimes against humanity.
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The commander's actions are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Human Rights Watch said it was evidence of crimes against humanity.
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The report concludes by analyzing international law concerning crimes against humanity.
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Both men have been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
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" It deemed that the violence against Sikhs constituted "crimes against humanity.
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But US is accountable for crimes against humanity re Iran & Yemen.
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Charles Taylor now sits in prison, convicted for crimes against humanity.
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Humanitarian groups have accordingly labeled tactics in Yemen crimes against humanity.
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Which aspects of the war could amount to crimes against humanity?
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Those acts were "very likely" crimes against humanity, the report said.
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The court acquitted Gbagbo on crimes against humanity charges on Jan.
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"We're talking about war crimes, crimes against humanity, even genocide," she said.
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.
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Nuremberg there was mention of crimes against humanity but no reference to
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There was, for example, no question of amnesties for crimes against humanity.
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In her view, the dictatorship committed "crimes against humanity" toward sexual minorities.
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Gbagbo is now in The Hague, on trial for crimes against humanity.
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" He called the United Nations report describing crimes against humanity an "exaggeration.
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Their brutal actions constitute crimes against humanity as well, the report concludes.
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Judges can resolve whether these crimes against humanity also amount to genocide.
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A recent United Nations report condemned crimes against humanity by Myanmar's military.
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Its mandate is to judge crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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In 2009, he was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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A third Syrian was arrested in France on suspicion of crimes against humanity.
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Crimes against humanity, that could be a consideration, but we need clear evidence.
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The most responsible [for] crimes against humanity will be investigated, judged, and condemned.
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It has moved towards the principle that crimes against humanity cannot be amnestied.
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Gadhafi is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
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It is rare for international companies to face charges for crimes against humanity.
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The Nazis were masters at deception and covering up their crimes against humanity.
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Their actions may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, it said.
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Army, wanted by the ICC for Crimes Against Humanity, surrendered to the U.S.
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The group Sexual Minorities Uganda asked to charge Lively with crimes against humanity.
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The manifestly unlawful — genocide, crimes against humanity — must be resisted even if ordered.
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So, when do we start crimes against humanity trials for the Burmese officials?
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Dikötter's originality is that he counts crimes against civilization alongside crimes against humanity.
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Another is currently on trial for both war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"Trump and Putin: Stop the Crimes Against Humanity in Chechnya," one message read.
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Gbagbo is now on trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
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Investigators from the Organization of American States denounced the killings as crimes against humanity.
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It documented torture and other violations, saying they could amount to crimes against humanity.
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He is now accused of crimes against humanity and awaits trial at the ICC.
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Intentional attacks constitute war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity, said Puras.
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The ICC was established in 1998 to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The report's authors concluded the violence amounted to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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He must be charged in the International Court of Justice with crimes against humanity.
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The report said the actions by security forces probably amounted to crimes against humanity.
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The 77-page filing said Duterte "repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously" committed crimes against humanity.
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EAST WEST STREETOn the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"By Philippe SandsIllustrated.
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Tillerson said Tuesday U.S. will stand up against anyone who commits crimes against humanity.
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It is rare for international companies anywhere to face charges for crimes against humanity.
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Those and other brutal actions were "very likely" crimes against humanity, the report said.
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We cannot pick and choose which crimes against humanity are convenient to speak about.
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Despite efforts to bring attention to the Syrian government's crimes against humanity, on Aug.
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Under international law that's called incitement and instigation, and those are crimes against humanity.
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Tillerson said Tuesday the U.S. will stand up against anyone who commits crimes against humanity.
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These constituted war crimes and in the case of Islamic State also crimes against humanity.
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And he has made it clear that among those interests is preventing crimes against humanity.
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The court accused Yekatom of crimes against humanity, including murder, imprisonment, torture and enforced disappearance.
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EAST WEST STREET: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity," by Philippe Sands.
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Omar Hassan al Bashir's government remains accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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The ICC was formed in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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"India is trying to hide its crimes against humanity in occupied Kashmir," Mr. Zakaria said.
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In legal terms, these are crimes against humanity, systematic attacks and forcible deportation of civilians.
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He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and was executed by hanging in 1962.
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Such negligence, the detainees' lawyers argue, meets the definition of torture and crimes against humanity.
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And we can hope that justice will put an end to such crimes against humanity.
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The United Nations has accused Eritrea's government of crimes against humanity, including enslavement and murder.
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Venezuela Five South American countries and Canada want Venezuela investigated for possible crimes against humanity.
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These constituted war crimes, and, in the case of Islamic State, also crimes against humanity.
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Everyone has family trouble around the holidays, even strongman leaders suspected of crimes against humanity.
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Crimes against humanity and genocide were both given specific legal meanings during the 20th century.
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In addition to 2014 case which found Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of crimes against humanity, the court also sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias, Duch, to life imprisonment in 2010, for war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder and torture.
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Crimes against humanity The concept of crimes against humanity originated in the 18th century, denouncing the atrocities of slavery and colonialism, and entered international law after World War II. Today, the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides the most thorough definition.
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Even worse, Iraq has no laws prohibiting or punishing genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The Syrian president has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians, executions, torture and crimes against humanity.
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He faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
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" The U.N. accused the government of gross human rights violations that "may constitute crimes against humanity.
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"Under international law, these offences ... may be considered crimes against humanity and war crimes," HRW said.
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The Lafarge executives are accused of complicity in crimes against humanity and financing a terrorist organization.
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It has also rejected accusations of crimes against humanity leveled this week by Human Rights Watch.
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The independent Syria commission estimates that two or three crimes against humanity are committed every day.
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A Myanmar government spokesman rejected the accusation of crimes against humanity, saying there was no evidence.
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He was found guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the Jewish people.
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In 2003 a UN-backed court in Timor-Leste indicted Mr Wiranto for crimes against humanity.
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The investigators have named several suspects whom they say should be charged with crimes against humanity.
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"The impunity is a loud signal that crimes against humanity are being committed," Mr. Goldston said.
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Tito Barahira, 65, and Octavien Ngenzi, 58, were found guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide.
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The then-68-year-old was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.
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Nonetheless, he was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1988 and sentenced to be hanged.
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"Cards Against Humanity" is a pun, of sorts, on "crimes against humanity" — which isn't really funny.
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Wells said he believes the lists will have value for investigators into possible crimes against humanity.
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The president rattled off a list of Europe's own crimes against humanity, and dismissed the critique.
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The proposed law would protect perpetrators of crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings from both camps.
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Since March 2017 Mr. Ficior had been serving a 20133-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
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Mr. Alejano, a former Marine captain, accused Mr. Duterte of bribery, murder and crimes against humanity.
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The United Nations human rights agency has said the abuses may amount to crimes against humanity.
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These violations of international law, if proven, would amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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He's also wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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Mugabe denies genocide or crimes against humanity but has admitted it was a "moment of madness".
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We have offered amnesty to all those who are found not guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both called the atrocities crimes against humanity for weeks.
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The commission said last year that officials at the highest level were responsible for crimes against humanity.
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Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former Congolese warlord, had his conviction for crimes against humanity overturned on appeal.
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Secondly, there still has not been justice for the crimes against humanity that took place on Sept.
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Jean Claude Seyoboka is accused of genocide, planning genocide, and murder and rape as crimes against humanity.
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Only then can criminal charges be brought against individuals suspected of war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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It would also ensure that evidence is collected for prosecuting the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.
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The report documented serious abuses during the last 18 months that could amount to crimes against humanity.
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There was, of course, thousands of crimes against humanity and party fouls that went unreported and unseen.
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No longer enjoying parliamentary immunity, in 2013 Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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After being convicted in Israel of crimes against humanity, he was acquitted just a few years later.
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"Democracy can't be built on a foundation of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," he said.
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Yet his fear of prosecution for crimes against humanity may have encouraged him to cling to office.
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The pair were found guilty of various crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
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So far he has avoided prosecution at home and abroad over the allegations of crimes against humanity.
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War crimes — some of which could amount to crimes against humanity — have been documented on both sides.
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According to a report from the United Nations, both sides may have engaged in crimes against humanity.
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Mladic was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the tribunal in The Hague.
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The court tries four types of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and war crimes.
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Last month, the ICC said it was investigating allegations the Philippines president had committed crimes against humanity.
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"Sisi's government is running a systematic torture system that probably amounts to crimes against humanity," he continued.
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Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejects accusations of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and has denounced rights abuses.
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That subverts Peru's decades-long struggle to come to terms with its dark past of crimes against humanity.
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Anwar R. was arrested in Berlin in February, suspected of crimes against humanity, including the torture of prisoners.
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Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity.
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ICC Russia says it's out of the International Criminal Court, which investigates hideous stuff like crimes against humanity.
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When someone is wanted for crimes against humanity, what are you telling other people to do to him?
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It prosecutes only the most serious offenses, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.
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KIM SAYS SUPREME COURT RULING WAS TO CALL ATTENTION TO JAPAN'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING WORLD WAR TWO
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The International Criminal Court was set up to try individuals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Iran teamed with Assad and Russia in utilizing methods that qualify as war crimes, even crimes against humanity.
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Trying them for the actual crimes against humanity is something that was left for authorities in other countries.
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Ongwen, who for years was an LRA commander, faces 70 charges involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Yanghee Lee, a UN special rapporteur told CNN in March that crimes against humanity may have been committed.
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But the defendants were charged in three categories: crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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Bagosora, 70, is serving a 35-year sentence for crimes against humanity in connection with the Rwandan genocide.
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The United Nations has said the security crackdown may amount to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.
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"What we know occurred in Rakhine state ... has a number of characteristics of crimes against humanity," he added.
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The situation that is unfolding in Xinjiang, I would argue, fits the textbook definition of crimes against humanity.
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The court's aim is to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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The U.S. and others have called the campaign of violence conducted by Myanmar's security forces crimes against humanity.
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He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The international system provides few tools for punishing the perpetrators of even the most egregious crimes against humanity.
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He was already serving life sentence in Cambodia after being found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2014.
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The original sin remains, providing both cover to torturers and a pathway to future U.S. crimes against humanity.
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Ruthless killers like Raisi and Pour-Mohammadi must be held to account and indicted for crimes against humanity.
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American ambassadors attended human rights trials in a public show of support for victims of crimes against humanity.
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Last year, Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Caesar was a credible witness and the forensics showed direct evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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United Nations officials have said the nation's military generals should be tried for the gravest crimes against humanity.
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NATO said it was responding to a United Nations call to end crimes against humanity in the country.
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He has been fined several times under French laws that make "contesting crimes against humanity" a criminal offense.
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"I would not use (the word genocide) right now but it could amount to crimes against humanity," said Lee.
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Crimes against humanity and torture have been committed against both the Falun Gong and the Uighurs, it also found.
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It is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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These courts laid new groundwork for prosecuting crimes against humanity, indicting hundreds of people and convicting more than 100.
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"The case has been incorporated into an ongoing investigation by Judge Maria Servini into crimes against humanity," it said.
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An outpouring of public opinion could induce President Putin to put an end to his heinous crimes against humanity.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday the U.S. will stand up against anyone who commits crimes against humanity.
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It is imperative that we follow through with meaningful actions to prevent such heinous crimes against humanity from recurring.
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He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed while his father was in power.
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Investigations by the United Nations, the African Union and others have documented repeated war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The statute lists 11 acts, which when widespread or systematic, may rise to the level of crimes against humanity.
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, was convicted on Wednesday of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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That's pathetic: Four of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are complicit in crimes against humanity.
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Since 2010 Lithuania has criminalized "denial or gross trivializing" of either Soviet or Nazi genocide or crimes against humanity.
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He asks does United States have a responsibility to protect in the case of genocide or crimes against humanity?
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The ICC's preliminary investigation could put Duterte on course to face charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague.
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The International Criminal Court is investigating Duterte and he could face crimes against humanity charges for the drug killings.
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He surrendered to the tribunal in 2004 and was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2013.
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My work is all about interrupting the process of dehumanization that leads to crimes against humanity on marginalized groups.
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In both rulings, the Inter-American Court recognized the crimes committed by the Brazilian dictatorship as crimes against humanity.
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The group supports victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
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United Nations investigators who looked into those accounts said Myanmar's army and police might have committed crimes against humanity.
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We do not need to be Andrew Jackson (or, ideally, someone far less likely to commit crimes against humanity).
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The big picture: Ntaganda was found guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in July.
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These blatant violations of international law clearly constitute crimes against humanity as widespread, systematic attacks against the civilian population.
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At that time, he was facing renewed charges after his conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity was overturned.
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If the supreme leader of Pyongyang is sent to the ICC, he would face charges of crimes against humanity.
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January 15, 2019 - Gbagbo and Blé Goudé are acquitted from all charges of crimes against humanity by the ICC.
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December 20163, 2012 - Former rebel leader Ngudjolo Chui is acquitted of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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" He warned those who used such weapons: "You will face a day of reckoning for your crimes against humanity.
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They cannot have been convicted by a court of crimes against humanity, criminal acts or deprivation of civil rights.
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In 22012, a United Nations-backed tribunal charged her with crimes against humanity, including mass murder, extermination and enslavement.
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This continued escalation in repressive measures has been described by independent human rights organizations as constituting crimes against humanity.
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The United Nations said Myanmar's security forces likely committed crimes against humanity in the offensive that began in October.
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He is facing seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as three counts of genocide.
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"The UN report said that there were potentially some terrible atrocities, potentially genocide, potentially crimes against humanity," Hunt said.
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"Individuals who commit crimes against humanity in the DPRK may be held responsible on the basis of customary international law, even though the state is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and has no provisions against crimes against humanity in its domestic criminal law," Darusman wrote.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Myanmar security forces may have committed "crimes against humanity."
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Crimes against humanity is another term used to describe the widespread and systematic targeting of a civilian population, he said.
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BJI leader Mohammad Qamaruzzaman was hanged last April for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
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Perhaps most notable to Americans, the court indicted the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity in Libya.
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Germany has "universal jurisdiction" laws that allow it to prosecute people for crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world.
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Kony, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, remains at large.
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They said last week they had drawn up a list of suspects who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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In 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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These are just a few of the daily crimes against humanity that are carried out by the North Korean dictatorship.
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He has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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"Our inaction tends to signal that war crimes and crimes against humanity are condoned and have no consequences," he said.
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Syria, of course, is waging a war against its own citizens that has raised concerns about possible crimes against humanity.
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Just last week, a United Nations panel accused Eritrea's leaders of committing crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and enslavement.
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And in the framework of international law, the study argues, the killings, forced disappearances and torture constitute crimes against humanity.
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Journalists, diplomats and others who speak out about Xinjiang should at least acknowledge the appearance of ongoing crimes against humanity.
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The international community must demand an independent and effective commission of inquiry into the probable crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
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"There is no possibility of crimes against humanity, no evidence of ethnic cleansing, as per U.N. accusations," said Myint Swe.
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, to life imprisonment on Wednesday for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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He said the United Nations had already found evidence of hundreds of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Congo.
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"We think it's important for the courts to continue sending a message regarding crimes against humanity," he said Wednesday night.
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Now, United Nations human rights investigators say they believe Burundi's top leaders and state security agencies committed crimes against humanity.
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In 2005, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Kony for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity in July.
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BAGHDAD — Sweden has opened three investigations into Iraq's defense minister, including looking into the possible commission of crimes against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court, which handles cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, was founded by international agreement.
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Yet in court, Mladic grinned as a judge read out the charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The judges said Karadzic was criminally responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and had committed crimes against humanity in Bosnian towns.
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He said the violent acts by ISIS -- killing, kidnapping, rape and torture -- constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes and even genocide.
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These groups today use SAME symbols & same arguments of #Nazi & #KKK, groups responsible for some of worst crimes against humanity ever.
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The ICC issued arrest warrants for Bashir in 2009 and 2010 on suspicion of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The Commission's latest report said there were reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity were continuing, including murder, torture and rape.
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It argued that the Myanmar army was also guilty of crimes against humanity among other ethnic minorities, the Kachin and Shan.
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They, too, committed what nowadays would be called crimes against humanity—systematic human sacrifice in the case of the Mexica (Aztecs).
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Now in their 80s and in declining health, they were sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for crimes against humanity.
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Since 2013, HRW has maintained that Burmese authorities were committing crimes against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingyas.
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The United Nations has recently accused him of crimes against humanity, detailing in particular his methods of enslavement, rape, and torture.
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Omar Al Bashir, the president of Sudan, currently stands accused by the International Criminal Court of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Refugees International described the actions of the military in Myanmar as "crimes against humanity" in a report released earlier this month.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was horrified by the reports and said they may amount to crimes against humanity.
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The panel is considering whether the policies amounted to forced marriage or led to sexual assault, both potentially crimes against humanity.
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The French warrants bring charges including collusion in torture, forced disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Syrian officials.
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The former warlord was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the appeals court at the ICC last week.
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In 2010 the International Criminal Court charged Bashir with crimes against humanity, including genocide, related to the Darfur conflict in Sudan.
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In 2010, the International Criminal Court charged Bashir with crimes against humanity, including genocide, related to the Darfur conflict in Sudan.
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For example, to get the message across, place North Korea's crimes against humanity in a digestible pan-Korean, historical context. How?
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Prosecuting cases as crimes against humanity, she said, would hold the commanders responsible, not just the men who carried out orders.
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"These egregious human rights abuses may constitute atrocities under US law and crimes against humanity under international law," the report said.
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Overall, Mr. Menéndez was sentenced 20083 times, indicted in 22008 cases and under investigation in 22011 more for crimes against humanity.
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Human rights advocates have called for the International Criminal Court at The Hague to investigate the Tatmadaw for crimes against humanity.
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The ICC is looking into potential war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban, Afghan forces and CIA personnel.
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"He is sick and tired of being accused of the commission of crimes against humanity," Mr. Roque told reporters in Manila.
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He was indicted in 2009 and 2010 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Earlier this year the Open Society Justice Initiative, a private human rights body, said incidents including Tanhuato constituted crimes against humanity.
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His role and high connections were only belatedly re-exposed 40 years later, when he was charged with crimes against humanity.
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The ICC in February started a preliminary examination into a complaint against the president, which accuses him of crimes against humanity.
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Human rights groups have pressured governments to bring people suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria to trial.
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The Myanmar government continues to deny its crimes against humanity, and the future of the Rohingya as a people remains unknown.
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He was hustled out of the chamber, and the tribunal announced he had been convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Rights groups have accused the army of trying to push Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar, and of committing crimes against humanity.
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"These killings are not a just part of Jihad, but mere acts of terrorism, and crimes against humanity," Maulana Masoud told CNN.
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He was convicted on March 21 of this year of two counts of crimes against humanity and three counts of war crimes.
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Prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have launched a preliminary examination to assess whether crimes against humanity may have been committed.
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Syrian officials have repeatedly denied allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, insisting that they target terrorists and not peaceful protesters.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have warned Duterte may be overseeing crimes against humanity, with police allegedly running anonymous death squads.
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The UN says the regime's use of torture and the "mass death of detainees" inside its prisons amount to crimes against humanity.
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Investigators also collected testimony of sexual violence on an even larger scale that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The court was set up in 20093 to bring justice to those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes.
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Those "old men" were criminals convicted for their participation in genocide and crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's liberation war in 1971.
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Former President Khieu Samphan, 85, and Nuon Chea, 90, had previously been found guilty of crimes against humanity by a UN tribunal.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday accused Syrian government troops of committing "crimes against humanity" that could not be overlooked.
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The landmark 2014 report, rejected by Pyongyang, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un might be personally responsible for crimes against humanity.
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FARC leaders accused of crimes against humanity will appear before a special peace tribunal to face charges brought by Colombia's attorney-general.
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The investigators called for commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing and five generals to be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The rebel leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity and remains at large.
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Sooka's team has identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The regime is responsible for the deaths of 181,000 civilians, and is now being investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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According to The AP, U.S. officials are not yet ready to make a recommendation regarding whether the actions constitute crimes against humanity.
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If this can be done for crimes against humanity, it ought to be possible with exponentially lesser but still pervasive, intractable offenses.
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The report to Congress said Islamic State is responsible for crimes against humanity, but it does not make that determination for Myanmar.
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Nowadays, he heads up the Enough Project, which seeks to sway policymakers as it tries to end genocide and crimes against humanity.
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This was out of a population of roughly 8 million and constitutes one of the greatest crimes against humanity in recorded history.
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Mr. Kony has been wanted for more than a decade by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The regime's ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have only intensified in their viciousness and cruelty as the war has dragged on.
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Human rights groups say the violence that erupted in 2012 and continued into 2013 amounted to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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He was convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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Mr. Rajapaksa, who is considered the front-runner in the race, is being accused of crimes against humanity in a California court.
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But Susannah Sirkin, the policy director of Physicians for Human Rights, believes that the bombings are systematic, amounting to crimes against humanity.
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In the decade since Sri Lanka's civil war ended, a former wartime defense chief has successfully dodged accusations of crimes against humanity.
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Mr. al-Bashir is under indictment by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Ethiopia nonetheless tried to marginalize Eritrea, supporting efforts in 2016 to mount a case against the Isaias government for crimes against humanity.
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"He must take responsibility for what he did in Stutthof, take responsibility for participating in these unimaginable crimes against humanity," she said.
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The I.C.C. was established more than 20033 years ago to seek justice for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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And this year, a former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, and one of his aides, were acquitted of crimes against humanity.
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Collectively, the three of us had decades of experience investigating and prosecuting those who commit war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Officials in the state, however, said the fact that Muslims still lived in Rakhine proved that crimes against humanity were not unfolding.
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The United States is not a party to the court, which was established to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Social media, video and photographic evidence can play a crucial role in bringing justice for victims of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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They were sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity and are undergoing a separate trial for genocide and other crimes.
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Their energy production not only funds crimes against humanity, but also forms the means by which would-be "states" like ISIS survive.
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Not to be outdone, the U.N. Human Rights Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution saying that crimes against humanity have "very likely" occurred.
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He faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes in connection to Sudanese military actions in Darfur.
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Iraq's defense minister is under investigation for crimes against humanity and for claiming Swedish social benefits while he was living in Iraq.
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She has also been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, but Ivory Coast has refused to transfer her.
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It convicted people from all parties to the conflict on war crimes and crimes against humanity, though the largest number were Serbs.
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Critics say the move shows Duterte is worried about the investigation, which could lead to charges of crimes against humanity at the Hague.
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The former Ivorian leader stands accused of crimes against humanity after violence erupted when he refused to cede power following a 2010 election.
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Due to the efforts of the Klarsfelds, Barbie was eventually tried and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for crimes against humanity.
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ICC prosecutors accuse Ngaissona of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, deportation, persecution, torture, attacking civilians, and recruiting child soldiers.
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According to IHL [international humanitarian law], such targeted or indiscriminate attacks against civilian objects may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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A UN investigation at the beginning of the year found systematic abuses against the community that could be indicative of crimes against humanity.
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It said these should be brought to the International Criminal Court and that Kim himself might be personally responsible for crimes against humanity.
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The left-wing president Néstor Kirchner, and then his wife, Cristina, made trials for crimes against humanity the defining policy of their administrations.
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TJWG crafted the report, entitled "Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea," in order to attract more experts and informants to the cause.
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Ms Kim herself appears the most trusted accomplice to a young dictator who a UN inquiry recommends be indicted for crimes against humanity.
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The two men, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, sat impassively as the lengthy verdict was read out Wednesday.
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Beyond the trial and conviction of its former dictator Hissene Habre for crimes against humanity, Chad hardly ever finds itself in the spotlight.
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FARC commanders who confess to crimes against humanity will receive eight-year sentences entailing "effective restrictions of liberties and rights"—but not jail.
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Still, his post-summit comments drew an angry reaction from activists, who have spent years highlighting North Korea&aposs extensive crimes against humanity.
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Bashir, who took power in a 1989 coup, is accused of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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" These include attacks on innocents, rape, arbitrary detentions and abductions, all of which "may amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
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It's true: being friends with last season's monster slash contestant Chad Johnson and having a nanny don't necessary qualify as crimes against humanity.
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A U.N. commission of inquiry found that Christian militias under Yekatom had carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting Muslims.
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The commission's preliminary report said last month that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its response.
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Dela Rosa is included in a crimes against humanity complaint lodged by a Filipino lawyer with the ICC, a court of last resort.
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The International Criminal Court has launched a preliminary inquiry into Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte for allegations of crimes against humanity, reports The Guardian.
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"The Nigerian authorities must investigate or make public their previous investigations on war crimes and crimes against humanity in the northeast," she added.
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Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — On June 8, a special U.N. commission released a report accusing the leadership of Eritrea of crimes against humanity.
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Many people find it hard to accept that FARC leaders accused of crimes against humanity will not go to jail provided they confess.
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The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it had approved a prosecution request to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the military campaign.
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In 2016, a court sentenced a 90-year-old prison commander, Alexandru Visinescu, for crimes against humanity, the first case of its kind.
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A U.N. Human Rights Council commission of inquiry said last year that rights abuses in North Korea may amount to crimes against humanity.
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Since then, impunity has ended and hundreds of officers of the Chilean state have been judged and condemned for their crimes against humanity.
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Although all sides have committed atrocities that may amount to crimes against humanity, government forces were most responsible in 2015, the report said.
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It also prohibits expansion of American military assistance until reforms take place and requires reporting on crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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New York-based Human Rights watch said on Monday that Islamic State's bombings, which have targeted crowded markets, amounted to "crimes against humanity".
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Radovan Karadzic, 70, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by a U.N. tribunal today.
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When thecatemites's Murder Dog IV: The Trial of Murder Dog begins, our "hero" is on trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said attacks on civilians in Aleppo could amount to crimes against humanity.
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Myanmar should "immediately cease all human rights violations, including crimes against humanity", the groups said in an open letter to the U.N. council.
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The details were given in a report by a special U.N. investigative mission which said the violence may amount to crimes against humanity.
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Al-Bashir is on the International Criminal Court's wanted list for alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.
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In particular, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was horrified by the reports and said they may amount to crimes against humanity.
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A U.N. report in February said security forces instigated a campaign that "very likely" amounted to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.
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"This is about holding Assad accountable for crimes against humanity," Andy Weber, also a former top WMD official at the Pentagon, told me.
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"These Islamic State criminals committed crimes against humanity and against our people in Iraq, in Mosul and Salahuddin and Anbar, everywhere," said Gen.
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Mr. Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, which accuses him of involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
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The book was used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, during which Streicher was convicted of directing and participating in crimes against humanity.
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Heroism is not morally obligatory, not teachable and not what we must demand of citizens in order to avoid catastrophic crimes against humanity.
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The principle serves as the basis for a state to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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Trump intends to condemn Syria's President Bashar Assad for committing "unspeakable crimes against humanity" and Iran for contributing to spiraling violence in Syria.
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Some of the incidences of sexual violence, including forced abortions, and rape committed against detained and imprisoned women, qualified as crimes against humanity.
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At the time, Ali was being investigated by an International Crimes Tribunal and was sentenced to death in 2014 for crimes against humanity.
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Some critics even suggest a family succession would protect Duterte, 74, from a possible International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment for crimes against humanity.
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" _____ • Pressure on Myanmar is rising after the U.N. described the country's four-month crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as "very probably crimes against humanity.
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And in The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted its first head of state, Sudanese President Omar Bashir, for crimes against humanity.
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They were charged with crimes against humanity in Syria dating to between 2011 and 2012, and a third suspect was detained in France.
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In February 2018, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched an initial inquiry into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by the Philippines president.
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" U.S. lawmakers last month cited intensive surveillance of a minority Muslim population in the western part of China as possibly constituting "crimes against humanity.
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The mass killings of allegedly bourgeois Cambodians for such things as wearing a watch have been treated as crimes against humanity rather than genocide.
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ICC judges earlier this month ordered Bemba&aposs interim release, days after he was acquitted on appeal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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By allowing Assad and his Russian supporters to continue their assault, the international community has become complicit, every day, in their crimes against humanity.
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North Korea has been accused by outsiders for extensive crimes against humanity, with the government using extreme surveillance, coercion and punishment to prevent dissent.
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OWFI wants ISIS leaders to be charged with crimes against humanity for persecuting LGBT people, which would be a revolutionary step in international law.
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That war has compelled the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary investigation into whether crimes against humanity have taken place under Duterte's orders.
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"There is a need to continue pushing for accountability in respect to crimes against humanity in the DPRK," Ojea Quintana told a news conference.
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The ICC is the "court of last resort" and tries four types of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and war crimes.
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Mr Duque has said that it should be incompatible to be both a member of congress and someone who has committed crimes against humanity.
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Nevertheless, the UN's Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal in The Hague found him guilty on November 22nd of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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It had submitted a motion asking Vanguard to avoid investing in companies that, "in management's judgment, substantially contribute to genocide or crimes against humanity".
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The full 2-hour hearing with Provost about the crimes against humanity that she continues to perpetrate on American soil is available on YouTube.
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FARC leaders and fighters who committed crimes against humanity will face a special tribunal but will not serve time in jail if they confess.
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The United Nations has established a fact-finding mission to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly committed by the security forces during the counter-offensive.
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Assistant Secretary General of the UN Andrew Gilmour came onstage at the festival to announce that the UN would be investigating crimes against humanity.
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Typically crimes against humanity tend to be genocide or violence against a particular group of people, like what happened in Cambodia in the 1970s.
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Ivory Coast was led at the time by Laurent Gbagbo, who is now on trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
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Ratko Mladic on Wednesday of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to life in prison for atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
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The reports demonstrate some of "the most egregious abuses of human rights" and may amount to crimes against humanity, Secretary-General António Guterres said.
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Several African leaders and other critics say the court — tasked with prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide — has disproportionately focused on Africa.
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" Damningly, the commission found that crimes against humanity had been committed pursuant to policies established by those at the "highest level of the state.
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Yet in the face of mounting evidence the Kim Jong-un regime continues to commit crimes against humanity toward its people with apparent immunity.
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The court is the world's first international tribunal with permanent jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
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The high court convicted Léon Mugesera, 64, who was then a regional vice chairman in the ruling party, of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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In 1947, Josef Tiso, a Slovak priest and Nazi collaborator, was hanged for crimes against humanity because of his eager deportation of Slovakia's Jews.
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Mr. Bashir was indicted in 2009 and 2010 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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A separate U.N. Commission of Inquiry accused Eritrean leaders in 2016 of crimes against humanity including murder, torture, rape, and enslaving hundreds of thousands.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish Prosecution Office said on Monday it had launched a preliminary investigation into suspected crimes against humanity by an Iraqi minister.
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The court ordered Mr. Bashir in 2009 to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and judges added the genocide charges later.
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The book's author, Julius Streicher, was also the publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer, and was executed in 1946 for crimes against humanity.
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The ICC only has jurisdiction in cases where a country's government is itself unable or unwilling to prosecute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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War crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban and its affiliated networks would also be a target of investigation, the report said.
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In 2005, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Kony, a self-proclaimed prophet, for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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A life sentence is also envisioned for the killing of a senior state official, acts of terrorism, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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More so, much stronger ethical boundaries are needed if we are to stop the non-profit sector from continuing to artwash crimes against humanity.
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"This ruling is a landmark in the global fight against impunity for atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against humanity," Kerry said in a statement.
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Their report, based on testimonies from refugees who have fled to Angola, detailed violence that the United Nations said may amount to crimes against humanity.
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We also show a lack of seriousness about ourselves and our history, having faced but remained silent amid such crimes against humanity in the past.
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"The times we are living in call for difficult decisions – Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity," she wrote.
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Whoever invented the paper straw ought to be tried by the Hague for crimes against humanity—the straw disintegrates quickly, which is a textural nightmare.
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Earlier this month, the UN's human rights investigator for North Korea called for Kim and senior officials to be prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity.
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The trials were conducted under the complimentary principle of the Rome Statute, and followed the standards for any international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The ICC is broadening out beyond Africa, investigating possible crimes against humanity in countries including Afghanistan, Colombia, Georgia, Myanmar (via Bangladesh), Palestine, Ukraine and Venezuela.
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Mr Duque is more moderate than his mentor, Mr Uribe, but he wants to bar from politics FARC members who have committed crimes against humanity.
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Gbagbo and Blé Goudé are charged with four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, for acts allegedly committed in 212 and 212.
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There's no agreed-upon point at which a platform's automated actions at scale rise to a potentially illegal level of complicity in crimes against humanity.
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Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala who was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2013, misstated the length of his trial.
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As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, it helped me understand the individual behaviors that led to some of the worst crimes against humanity in history.
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United Nations investigators who interviewed some of the nearly 75,000 people who fled to neighboring Bangladesh last year said troops probably committed crimes against humanity.
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In May, the Organization of American States (OAS) accused the Maduro administration of committing "crimes against humanity", and vowed to present evidence to the ICC.
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Prosecutors recommended life in prison during closing arguments to the court this week if Habre is convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture.
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"I condemn in the strongest terms this despicable crime," said MINUSMA head Mahamat Saleh Annadif, adding that it constituted "crimes against humanity under international law".
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U.N. investigators who interviewed refugees said allegations of gang rape, torture, arson and killings by security forces in the operation were likely crimes against humanity.
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Saeed gave the ranks and initials of eight officers charged with crimes against humanity, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment under military law.
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Bashir is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court on charges of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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Our conclusions also present overwhelming evidence that these crimes against humanity under international law were overseen and approved by senior levels of the Myanmar military.
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Let President Obama convey sympathies to victims everywhere and confirm the determination of peace-loving Americans to prevent such crimes against humanity in the future.
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It said 56-year-old Anwar R. oversaw interrogations at the facility and is suspected of involvement in crimes against humanity between 2011 and 2012.
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U.N. sanctions monitors said in January that the coalition had targeted civilians in Yemen and that some of the attacks could be crimes against humanity.
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The United Nations has called for an investigation into Myanmar's military leaders for committing crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide against the Rohingya people.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he was "horrified" at reports of migrants being sold as slaves, which could amount to crimes against humanity.
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Mladic's political partner in crime, Radovan Karadzic, was found guilty last year of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of laws or customs of war.
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The case was noteworthy for being part of a transnational effort to hold people accountable for crimes against humanity, no matter where those crimes occurred.
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She noted that last year, former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré was convicted to life in prison for crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and enslavement.
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Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the last living leaders of the regime, were jailed for life in 2014 after being convicted of crimes against humanity.
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Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace time, but the idea that victims live in peace is only a callous technicality.
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It was meant to be a one-stop shop to try the most powerful perpetrators of the worst violations: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide.
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America and the world's silence in the face of Iran's crimes against humanity has produced a culture of impunity that encourages the killing to continue.
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Min Aung Hlaing, last month as one of six top commanders who should stand trial in an international court for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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"North Korea is exporting crimes against humanity," says Remco Breuker, a Dutch historian who led an investigation of companies using North Korean workers in Europe.
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The International Criminal Court is supposed to step in if national courts don't bring to justice perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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The iron-fisted Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin), 74, has ruled the Soviet Union for decades and racked up countless crimes against humanity and millions of victims.
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His death came just eight days after that of another former Argentine general, Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, who had also been convicted of crimes against humanity.
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A United Nations commission of inquiry found that Christian militias under Mr. Yekatom had carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting Muslims.
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The report said that Israeli troops could have committed crimes against humanity in shooting unarmed civilians — including children — who posed no threat during the protests.
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The ICC last month said it had started a preliminary examination to establish whether it had jurisdiction, and if crimes against humanity had been committed.
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The court, which opened in 2002, was envisioned as the world's permanent judicial body for cases of war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity.
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This type of denial is common when states are defending themselves against accusations of genocide and crimes against humanity, and that's why the ruling matters.
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This conduct constitutes a prima facie case of crimes against humanity under the category of "other inhumane acts" that intentionally cause great suffering or death.
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The United Nations has warned of summary executions and other crimes that might amount to crimes against humanity, an assertion that Mr. Nkurunziza has rejected.
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As defense chief during the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which stretched from 1983 to 2009, Mr. Rajapaksa was accused of crimes against humanity.
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Thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, and the United Nations human rights agency has said abuses against them may be crimes against humanity.
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However, the 28503 massacre was an atrocity that must surely rank as one of the most horrific crimes against humanity of the late twentieth century.
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It prompted the International Criminal Court to open cases (later dismissed) for crimes against humanity against both Mr. Kenyatta and his vice president, William Ruto.
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"The widespread nature of the organization, the systematic nature, is certainly characteristic of crimes against humanity," U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a briefing.
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Government blames militants for violence Monday's report called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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In effect, the Saudis have managed to block coverage of the crimes against humanity they are perpetrating in Yemen, and the U.S. backs the Saudis.
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Gbagbo and Blé Goudé are charged with four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, for acts allegedly committed in 2010 and 2011.
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The importance of holding perpetrators to account for genocide and crimes against humanity -- including sexual violence -- extends far beyond the borders of the concerned countries.
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A 2011 UN report found credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both sides during the final stages of the fighting.
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She has ignored irrefutable evidence of ethnic cleansing, and in so doing, has emboldened Myanmar's military to persist in committing crimes against humanity with impunity.
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His statement did not discuss either the investigation into possible benefits fraud or registration fraud, but rejected claims that he had committed crimes against humanity.
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"To be sure, anyone responsible for the crimes against humanity committed on September 11, 2001, should be brought to justice in fair trials," Huang wrote.
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But the report, which could be used to justify further U.S. sanctions against Myanmar authorities, did not describe the actions as genocide or crimes against humanity.
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The actions carried out under Duterte's watch "meet the threshold for crimes against humanity," Amnesty International's Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, James Gomez, said.
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Earlier this summer, an independent United Nations investigation declared that Myanmar's military leaders should be investigated and charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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At the Nuremberg trials in 1946, 24 Nazi leaders had faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity—mass-enslavement, murder, conspiracy, persecution and more.
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The 69-year old was among officials indicted for crimes against humanity in 2003 by a U.N. tribunal for the military's reported violence in East Timor.
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The commission has compiled a list of names of those it suspects of carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity over the past five years.
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Such words are worrying when coming from a man who, like Mr Bashir, is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity.
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The former Guatemalan dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, died while awaiting a second trial on charges that he committed crimes against humanity during the country's civil war.
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Brody, nicknamed the "dictator hunter", helped victims of Chad's Hissene Habre jail their former president for life last year for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Ohler does not believe the drug abuse even slightly absolves the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis, nor does he think it normalizes their behavior.
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Amnesty said the international community had failed to respond robustly to "crimes against humanity and war crimes from Myanmar to Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen".
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"Accountability for these atrocities is every bit as crucial as it is for the crimes against humanity carried out by Myanmar&aposs security forces," Hassan said.
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Judges at the court have said threats against witnesses contributed to the collapse of the crimes against humanity case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta last year.
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During the civil war they were targeted by militias allied to ex-president Gbagbo, who is facing trial in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity.
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We have evidence that nine of the 11 crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court have been committed since Aug.
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This comes on the heels of separate legislation introduced by bipartisan lawmakers in both chambers aimed at holding senior military officials accountable for crimes against humanity.
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German prosecutors last year issued an international arrest warrant for the head of Syrian Air force Intelligence on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The anger in the room on Thursday was evident, and at one point a protester shouted that Mr. Clinton should be charged with crimes against humanity.
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At the end of the trial, a three-judge panel convicted Eichmann of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other offenses, and sentenced him to death.
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Our obligation to help vulnerable Yazidi, Christian and Shia populations remains, and the world must not look the other way when crimes against humanity are committed.
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Bosco Ntaganda faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by his troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003.
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The U.N. concluded that the town was deliberately destroyed in 2011 in order to make it uninhabitable, and said Misrata's militias had committed crimes against humanity.
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The UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday he was "horrified" at reports of migrants being sold as slaves, which could amount to crimes against humanity.
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United Nations officials say Myanmar's military should be investigated for crimes against humanity and potential genocide, and the Trump administration recently accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing.
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The United States' decision to declassify more documents relating to Argentina's dictatorship is an important step that could enable further judicial investigations of crimes against humanity.
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They also documented mass executions and torture of prisoners abducted by the Nusra Front and Islamic State they say constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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" On Monday, Amnesty International accused the Myanmar government of destroying the remains of Rohingya villages in a campaign dedicated to "erasing evidence of crimes against humanity.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - France has arrested a Chadian rebel leader along with two other people for alleged crimes against humanity, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Monday.
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"There is a clear pattern of ethnic persecution, for the most part by government forces, who should be pursued for crimes against humanity," Mr. Clapham said.
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Mr. Ortega, who lost power in 1990 and returned to the presidency in 2007, has been accused in recent years of carrying out crimes against humanity.
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Ongwen's trial got underway in December in the International Criminal Court at the Hague, where he faces crimes against humanity charges that include murder and enslavement.
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One other defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, a prison commander, was convicted in 2010 of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
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" Barbara Coloroso, author of "The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander," said: "It's a short walk from hateful rhetoric, to hate crimes to crimes against humanity.
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The lawsuit initially included war crimes and crimes against humanity charges, but those were dismissed by June 2017, leaving the remaining two charges, Ms. Roberts said.
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In books, law journals, seminars and reports from conflict areas, Mr. Bassiouni elaborated on definitions of the gravest international crimes, including crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Included on that list were former President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt and President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, both known for involvement in crimes against humanity.
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Mr. Trump gave props to a dictator who, according to the United Nations, belongs in a docket before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
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"The human rights violations committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to the worst atrocities, including crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide," Ms. Bachelet said.
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Yet his fear of prosecution for crimes against humanity may have encouraged him to cling to office, despite his conviction that only God could remove him.
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When I said drone strikes are crimes against humanity, when I said Obama bailed out Wall Street rather than Main Street — I shall forever support that.
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Last year, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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She said she wouldn't feel validated until Cosby apologized to his victims, adding, "This mass serial rapist be put in jail for his crimes against humanity."
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The court takes cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when a nation's judicial system is unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute them.
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During a speech in London in October, Nice described China&aposs actions, in the eyes of the tribunal, as "mass atrocity killings" and "crimes against humanity."
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When General Ríos Montt was eventually convicted, many saw him as a victim of foreign machinations rather than a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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U.N. investigators last month said they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Suffice it to say that unspeakable crimes against humanity (against "people who would like to harm us") are described as if they were temporary telemarketing gigs.
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Last year, he unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the International Criminal Court, after it announced it was conducting a preliminary examination into alleged crimes against humanity.
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have appealed against the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of Ivory Coast, on charges of crimes against humanity.
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In March 85033, Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court on five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes.
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In a recent investigation, Fortify Rights exposed how Myanmar authorities systematically planned for mass atrocities against Rohingya civilians, which amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Last September the ICC prosecutor opened a preliminary examination into whether alleged forced deportations of Rohingya from Myanmar could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Clooney is currently working on cases to prosecute Islamic State militants for crimes against humanity, including sexual abuse and enslavement of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority.
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A strong case could be made at the International Criminal Court "that crimes against humanity have been committed," said the Australia director at Human Rights Watch.
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A U.S. policy that strongly supports Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur who has built the case for crimes against humanity, also can get results.
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Reports indicate that this may be the largest incarceration of an ethnic minority population since World War II, and that it may constitute crimes against humanity.
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In 2012, Romania removed its statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, opening up the possibility of prosecuting those whose crimes dated back more than 40 years.
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And each time, we break that promise anew by waiting too long and not working hard enough at our commitment to prevent genocide or crimes against humanity.
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Another African ex-leader, former Chadian president Hissene Habre, was jailed for life last year for crimes against humanity, more than a quarter century after his overthrow.
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The ICC said earlier this month it had begun an examination of whether the alleged forced deportations of Rohingya could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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"The indiscriminate bombing by the regime which violates international rules of war -- in many cases crimes, crimes against humanity, and war crimes -- needs to stop," he said.
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A U.N. tribunal convicted Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war and sentenced him to life in prison.
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They cast out wanted posters calling Miller a white nationalist, oh that&aposs original, accusing him of crimes against humanity and promoting Nazi and other extremist ideologies.
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Mladic was tried on 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for allegedly overseeing atrocities by Serb forces in Bosnia&aposs 1992-95 war.
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The Senate has also followed the lead of the Commons in recognizing that the crimes against humanity committed by the military against the Rohingya constitute a genocide.
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" He said these violations constitute "war crimes," and "if knowingly committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against civilians, they constitute crimes against humanity.
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Role of Assad The conflict in Syria has entered its seventh year, and continues to be characterized by appalling war crimes, crimes against humanity and chemical weapons.
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The group said it filed a formal complaint with prosecutors, accusing Shahroudi of committing crimes against humanity and urging Berlin to prevent the cleric from leaving Germany.
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It said it had filed a formal complaint with prosecutors, accusing Shahroudi of committing crimes against humanity and urging Berlin to prevent the cleric from leaving Germany.
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Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has requested authorization for a formal investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, according to NPR.
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They said that in certain cases the violations by the coalition were conducted in a "widespread and systemic manner" and therefore could qualify as crimes against humanity.
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The ICC was established in 85033 to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after human rights groups and other nongovernment organizations pushed for its creation.
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The Justice Initiative report is the first time an international group has made a public legal argument that the pattern of abuses amounts to crimes against humanity.
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The extermination of the Vietnamese and Cham Muslims should be seen as genocide and also part of the larger crimes against humanity committed by the Khmer Rouge.
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"It's nothing less than that and that's how history will record what the Trump administration is doing right now: These are crimes against humanity," he told CNN.
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He faces 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity relating to two attacks against the non-Hema population in Congo's Ituri province.
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The court's foundational document, adopted in 1998, is the Rome Statute, which decreed that there should be no statute of limitations for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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"What we know occurred in Rakhine state ... has a number of characteristics of crimes against humanity," he said on November 15, after an official visit to Myanmar.
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He urged backing for a declaration stating attacks on schools and universities are crimes against humanity and more funding for schools in conflict situations and fragile states.
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Accountability for these atrocities is every bit as crucial as it is for the crimes against humanity carried out by Myanmar's security forces in northern Rakhine State.
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Nowhere are the signs of crimes against humanity more alarming than in the expanding system of concentration camps which observers have said are springing up across Xinjiang.
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The day before, the same parliament had decorated three Serbs who were convicted of crimes against humanity during Bosnia's war by an international tribunal in The Hague.
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The Philippines has been "undergoing a human rights crisis" that could amount to crimes against humanity, said Louis Charbonneau, Human Rights Watch's director at the United Nations.
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Ironically, the pact so bitterly denounced as an example of pacifist wishful thinking became a legal method for prosecuting those found guilty of committing crimes against humanity.
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The part of the deal to which he is most hostile is the "transitional justice" tribunal, called the JEP, which investigates war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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In their Supreme Court motion, the rights activists said that withdrawing from the court would deprive Filipinos of "effective remedies" against genocide and other crimes against humanity.
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But the panel, calling them multiple crimes against humanity, rejected that request, which had been the subject of intense debate among lawyers, human rights groups and victims.
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte admitted Thursday he was involved in his government's extrajudicial killings — a confession that strengthens the international case against him for crimes against humanity.
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Alexandru Visinescu, a former Romanian prison commander who had been serving a 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity, died on Monday in a Bucharest prison hospital.
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The plaintiffs, who were employed by Nevsun at its Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, Africa, have accused the company of slavery, forced labor and crimes against humanity.
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Earlier in the review, he described how Karadzic was finally captured in 2008 and sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide and other crimes against humanity.
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The plaintiffs, who were employed by Nevsun at its Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, Africa, have accused the company of slavery, forced labour and crimes against humanity.
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The men are suspected of crimes against humanity committed during a wide and systematic attack by Serb army, police and paramilitaries in the Prijedor region, it added.
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In late 2017, the ICC's chief prosecutor requested authorization to launch an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity purportedly committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
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"The times we are living in call for difficult decisions — Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity," she wrote on Twitter.
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The third convict, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, who commanded a notorious Khmer Rouge prison, was also sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
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The Muslim caliphate, an idle dream colored by myths of former glory, was resurrected in a brutal and fevered nightmare of atrocities piled upon crimes against humanity.
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ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.
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Last month one of them, Bosco Ntaganda, who is known as "The Terminator", was sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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France's highest civil and criminal court Cour de Cassation and the French government authorized in 2018 Sandoval's extradition to Argentina to face charges of crimes against humanity.
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The move is meant to deter a potential investigation by the judicial body into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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"The Assad regime is responsible for innumerable atrocities some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity," Pompeo told a news conference.
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In another decision, he ruled that massacres, torture and other atrocities committed by a government or a group could constitute crimes against humanity, even without a war.
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Judges rejected the request for the second genocide conviction, but upheld his conviction on all other war crimes and crimes against humanity charges including persecution and murder.
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Attorney General Dappula de Livera ordered their arrest on Monday and urged the acting police chief to bring charges against the two, including for "crimes against humanity".
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FIFA allowed one of the coveted seats to be given to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Crimes against humanity have been committed in Mexico "in the name of security", actor Gael Garcia Bernal told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
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The country has a long history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, which the United Nations said are "strikingly similar" to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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The suspect in France was arrested on Tuesday near Paris on suspicion of committing torture, crimes against humanity and war crimes between 2011 and 2013, Paris prosecutors said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Friday they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The violence in Burundi has killed over 700 people and a U.N. commission said last week there were reasonable grounds to believe authorities had committed crimes against humanity.
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In May 043 Serbia's president, Slobodan Milosevic, was the first serving head of state to be accused of crimes against humanity; genocide was later added to the charges.
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Perhaps it is time, suggests Mr Sands, to end the hierarchy of suffering by creating one catch-all crime of mass atrocity, fusing genocide and "crimes against humanity".
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As head of the Lord's Resistance Army, Kony has a $5 million bounty on his head and is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.
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"Chut Pyin exemplifies the campaign of violence that Myanmar authorities have carried out against the Rohingya people" and "should be investigated as crimes against humanity", the report concluded.
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Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region, and is mostly shunned by Western leaders.
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"Some of these violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity and must be immediately investigated by Israel," said panel chair Santiago Canton, an Argentine legal expert.
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The International Criminal Court last week said it had begun an examination of whether the alleged forced deportations of Rohingya could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian minister of justice serving on an OAS panel investigating alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela, said it would report its findings next month.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's president is wanted for crimes against humanity, the economy has lost much of its oil output and the government is in arrears with the IMF.
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The United Nations said it had committed mass killings and gang rapes and burned villages in a campaign that may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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Daesh is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed against these same groups and in some cases also against Sunni Muslims, Kurds and other minorities.
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Where the Taliban and ISIL have come to power in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, they have imposed sharia-based Sunni supremacist regimes and committed massive crimes against humanity.
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The ICC is an international court set up in 2002 to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity when member states are unable or unwilling to do so.
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In 2014, a French judge sentenced Pascal Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan intelligence officer, to 25 years in prison for complicity in the genocide and for crimes against humanity.
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The former army officer is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court on charges of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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Germany detained the two men earlier this year under its "universal jurisdiction" laws that allow it to prosecute people for crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world.
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A Special Criminal Court, established in 2015 to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Central African Republic since 2003, is also expected to start operating soon.
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Trillanes has backed several complaints to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking the president's indictment for crimes against humanity and has protected people willing to testify against Duterte.
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The leader of the Roman Catholic church will also visit Bangladesh, where more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled to escape what Amnesty International has called "crimes against humanity".
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Attorney General Dappula de Livera had ordered their arrest last week and urged the acting police chief to bring charges against the two, including for "crimes against humanity".
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A UN fact-finding report has called for top military leaders in Myanmar to be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Rohingya people.
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BUENOS AIRES — Reynaldo Bignone, the last military dictator of Argentina, died here on Wednesday while under house arrest after being convicted of crimes against humanity in multiple trials.
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Her government "contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes" by letting hate speech thrive, destroying documents and failing to shield minorities from crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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His images, initially made for one purpose (as the regime's records of its enemies), came to take on a different significance (as evidence of astonishing crimes against humanity).
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In a 77-page complaint filed to the tribunal in April, a Filipino lawyer accused Mr. Duterte and 11 other officials of mass murder and crimes against humanity.
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The tribunal had recently been created to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes throughout the world, and apparently he felt that it threatened the United States.
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And anyone making excuses for that hatred — who tries, for example, to turn it into a "both sides" story — is, in effect, an apologist for crimes against humanity.
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According to its website, the court is currently investigating 11 "situations," the bulk of them in sub-Saharan Africa, involving allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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At a trial in The Hague in 2012, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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After just two days of debate, Argentina's Congress on Wednesday passed a bill intended to prevent any shortening of prison terms for those sentenced for crimes against humanity.
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Key differences: "Incitement to hatred" is a crime in Germany, and in France, the act of publicly denying the Holocaust or other crimes against humanity is an offense.
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Their final report, published by Reuters during their trial, makes clear that their work constituted an admirable and comprehensible indictment of crimes against humanity by policemen and paramilitaries.
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The report focused extensively on treatment of minority Muslim Uighur population in Xinjiang, "where the Commission believes Chinese authorities may be committing crimes against humanity," the report said.
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Since then, it has convicted several Congolese officials accused of crimes against humanity, including former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba last year and the rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda.
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BlackRock doesn't deserve praise for choosing an investment strategy that centers climate change, it deserves a trial for its role in these crimes against humanity and the Earth.
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Human rights experts have called it ethnic cleansing or genocide, and U.N. officials have said the nation's military generals should be tried for the gravest crimes against humanity.
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Thousands of the Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, and the United Nations human rights agency has said that abuses against the Rohingya may amount to crimes against humanity.
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"The Government of Iraq should take appropriate steps to prosecute the crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people, including alleged genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," Callamard said.
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MANILA — Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines may have committed crimes against humanity by inciting killings during his bloody antidrug campaign.
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Burundi's government and military are under investigation by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity stemming from a 217 political crisis within the country's own borders.
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Burundi's government and military are under investigation by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity stemming from a 22016 political crisis within the country's own borders.
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Key differences: "Incitement to hatred" is a crime in Germany, and in France, the act of publicly denying the Holocaust or other crimes against humanity is an offense.
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A special court created to hear Mr. Habré's case in Senegal, where he has been living in exile, convicted him last May of crimes against humanity and torture.
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A congressional aide said the House could vote as soon as next week on a resolution stating that the Rohingya were victims of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The group will present a petition to the International Criminal Court requesting an investigation into the kidnappings – and the regime's silence about the disappeared – as crimes against humanity.
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Min Aung Hlaing, and 12 others in the commission of nine out of 11 types of crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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But judges at the UN war crimes court at The Hague (ICTY) said Seselj bore no individual responsibility for the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing that took place.
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Tens of thousands of members of Myanmar's Muslim minority have left in this fashion, and their treatment may amount to "crimes against humanity," warns UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee.
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A UN report last year said many of the incidents of rape, murder, torture and looting by various groups and governments from 2003-2015 could constitute crimes against humanity.
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ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said on Thursday the preliminary examination into Duterte's campaign sought to establish whether it had the jurisdiction, and if crimes against humanity had been committed.
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The U.N. mission called for Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and genocide over allegations of mass killings and gang rapes.
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The lawyer, Emmanuel Altit, made the argument in his opening statement at Mr. Gbagbo's trial on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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The House also passed by voice vote a bill that would sanction the government of Syria, and supporters including Russia and Iran, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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" And the day after, she tweeted: "The times we are living in call for difficult decisions - Proud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity.
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Still, Israel read past the lip service and understood that it would have to pay nothing, not even for acts suspected of being war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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At the very least, he thinks those guilty of crimes against humanity should serve time on prison farms and be barred from taking part in politics while doing so.
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The commission, which was appointed by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, has produced a number of reports chronicling evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Opened in July 2002, the ICC, which has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The Syrian government has practiced a policy of "extermination" against thousands of detainees, and is guilty of other crimes against humanity and war crimes, UN-appointed investigators have found.
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Shedding light on past crimes against humanity isn't designed to embarrass Turkey but is important in its own right to learn from the past and help prevent future genocides.
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Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea were found guilty of crimes against humanity in the first phase of the complex U.N. trial and sentenced to life in prison in 2014.
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Mr. Seselj was charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and six of war crimes in the ethnic cleansing for his role in mobilizing and motivating his followers.
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Nuon Chea, known in the regime as "Brother Number Two," and Khieu Samphan known as "Brother Number Four," are already serving life sentences in Cambodia for crimes against humanity.
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After those conflicts, human rights groups began pushing for a permanent international criminal court to hold accountable and prosecute anyone responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The Saudi-led coalition has targeted civilians with air strikes and some of the attacks could be crimes against humanity, U.N. sanctions monitors told the Security Council in January.
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" The US Holocaust Memorial Museum declared in early December that there was "compelling evidence that the Burmese military committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Rohingya.
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Despite improving ties with some U.N. bodies, Asmara has refused to cooperate with a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that this month accused its leaders of committing crimes against humanity.
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Even more incomprehensible, perhaps, this candidate's proposed anti-ISIS cooperation with Syria and Iran would ipso facto undermine the vital international legal regime against genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The U.N. report targeted several top Myanmar military officials, including its commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, that it believes should be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The U.N. report targeted several top Myanmar military officials including its commander-in-chief, Min Aung Hlaing, that it believes should be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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A new United Nations report suggests that government-affiliated soldiers were allowed to rape women in lieu of wages, and adds that the abuses may constitute crimes against humanity.
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Instead, in typical Trump fashion, he is doubling down on his untruths and outright lies, blaming Democrats for the current crimes against humanity for which only he is responsible.
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It is time that the world demands justice for the victims of the 85033 massacre, and holds the regime accountable for breaches of international law and crimes against humanity.
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The UN report strongly suggests these top military commanders should be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against humanity, either through the International Criminal Court or an ad hoc tribunal.
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If these ISIS terrorists are not arrested and held accountable for their crimes against humanity, they will continue to present a clear and present danger to our entire world.
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After the war, other physicians from the region—including the doctor who oversaw Schönfelder's case—were tried in Dresden for crimes against humanity, and some were sentenced to death.
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Its two most prominent cases, against Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, and his vice president, William Ruto, both charged with crimes against humanity, collapsed when the prosecution withdrew its charges.
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Afghanistan The International Criminal Court has authorized an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan by US armed forces, the CIA and the Taliban.
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Jude Sabio, a Filipino lawyer, filed a 77-page complaint with the court last April accusing the president and 11 other officials of mass murder and crimes against humanity.
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The original charge was genocide, but it was later changed to murder and crimes against humanity, and in July 2015 he was convicted in the deaths of 12 prisoners.
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The court has indicted him on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide, accusing him of playing "an essential role" in atrocities in Darfur, a region in western Sudan.
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The campaign challenges traditional definitions of crimes against humanity, which complicates the world's response, said Adrian Zenz, a lecturer at the European School of Culture and Theology in Germany.
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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who came to power 27 years ago, is sought by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur.
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The International Criminal Court considers "inhumane acts" that are "intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health" to be crimes against humanity.
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The court was created in 2002 for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, particularly in countries that lack the means or willingness to prosecute these crimes.
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On March 24, 2016, the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 40 years' imprisonment.
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Another Macron stumble — the decision to go to Algiers to tell an autocrat that France should apologize for its colonial-era "crimes against humanity" — caused the mayor to explode.
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Biegun also did not voice a direct condemnation of the human rights abuses of Kim's authoritarian regime -- some of which the United Nations have identified as crimes against humanity.
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"A regime that tortures and murders its own citizens, imprisons children for the actions of parents and grandparents, and a leader who has committed crimes against humanity," Smith said.
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Some of his top officials have been indicted in the U.S., while he and others could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity if they were to leave the country.
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In this particular case, the United States is fully obligated under both the United Nations Charter and Genocide Convention to punish Syrian crimes of war and crimes against humanity.
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Ongwen, who for years was an Lord's Resistance Army commander, faces 70 charges involving war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed from 2002 to 2004 in northern Uganda.
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"The President has said that he also welcomes this preliminary examination because he is sick and tired of being accused of the commission of crimes against humanity," Roque said.
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In 1982, during the height of state terror, President Ronald Reagan met with the Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, who was later convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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A U.N. panel concluded that Syrian government forces and their allies committed war crimes and crimes against humanity when they recaptured a suburb of Damascus from rebels this year.
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The actions may amount to the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, as well as persecution, the investigators said in the report.
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Mr. Rapp regrets the absence of a global system of justice and calls for new American laws to hold perpetrators of large-scale atrocities accountable for their crimes against humanity.
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The former warden, Alexandru Visinescu, convicted last July of murder and crimes against humanity for the deaths of 12 inmates in the Ramnicu Sarat prison, was unrepentant at the trial.
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The trip to Canada is the real turn of the knife, as Serena is repeatedly tempted by the modern world and criticized for being complicit in Gilead's crimes against humanity.
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"As a result of the war against narco-trafficking, the most serious violations of human rights have been committed, including crimes against humanity in the name of security," he said.
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U.N. judges had ordered a five-minute bathroom break for Mladic, 74, before issuing their verdict in his trial for 11 alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity including genocide.
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Kenyatta, who six years ago was sitting in the dock in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity for orchestrating the 2007 violence, urged a peaceful vote and outcome.
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Since it was set up under the 1998 Rome Statute, the court based in The Hague has focused on prosecuting such politically-motivated crimes as genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court wants Bashir to face charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide for his campaign against insurgents in the Darfur region between 2003 and 2008.
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Polish President Andrzej Duda announced Tuesday that he would sign legislation making it a crime to suggest Poland had any responsibility for the Holocaust or any other crimes against humanity.
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And in fact, United Nations investigations have now concluded that some 40,000 civilians were killed in that campaign, with both sides -- the Tigers and the government -- committing crimes against humanity.
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It also documents what commission member Andrew Clapham called "a clear pattern of ethnic persecution, for the most part by government forces who should be pursued for crimes against humanity".
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Mr. Habré, who was in power from June 229 to December 22007, stands accused, among other things, of committing numerous crimes against humanity and war crimes against his political opponents.
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The ICC, which sits in The Hague and has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes court, acquitted Gbagbo on crimes against humanity charges in January last year, saying prosecutors had failed to prove any case against him.
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The ousted former attorney-general of Venezuela, Luisa Ortega, turned over more than 1,000 pieces of evidence to the International Criminal Court accusing President Nicolás Maduro of crimes against humanity.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A veteran investigator urged the United Nations on Thursday to appoint an international legal expert to prepare judicial proceedings against North Korea's leadership for documented crimes against humanity.
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A decision on whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) will proceed with charges of crimes against humanity against the government and business leaders is expected in the next few months.
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But in 2011 the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged crimes against humanity during attempts to quash the revolution that led to his father's ouster.
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February: The International Criminal Court launches a preliminary inquiry into the drug war over claims of crimes against humanity, while the U.S. labels the Filipino leader a threat to democracy.
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The maps were taken from United States and Israeli television coverage of Demjanjuk's trial in the 1980s, when he was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to be hanged.
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"We want a new constituent assembly, a new constitution and to impeach Pinera for crimes against humanity committed in recent days," said Luis Torres, a computer engineer and physics professor.
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The largest number of migrants to arrive in Italy so far this year are Eritreans, who are fleeing a dictatorship that the United Nations has accused of crimes against humanity.
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Part of the funding will also go to the United Nation's International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, which is charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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"I've read your book," the 44th president of the United States is reported to have said to Samantha Power, one of his key advisers on genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The United Nations has accused the government of crimes against humanity and press freedom is the worst compared to all other African nations, according to the World Press Freedom Index.
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The most recent attempt started in 22009, when the current government established two International Crimes Tribunals that together have convicted 21971 people on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The fact that some of their descendants have already been found makes this a particularly salient case in the emerging effort to confront one of history's worst crimes against humanity.
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More than 10,000 people were killed, according to the UN; it has called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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This can only be good news for the leaders of the Islamic State and other perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity who should be brought to justice.
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Duterte and dela Rosa are among those named in a complaint by a Philippine lawyer alleging crimes against humanity that the International Criminal Court has started a preliminary examination into.
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In 2015, Dominic Ongwen, a former L.R.A. commander, became the first member of the rebel group to go before the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Now, Taylor is serving out a 50-year jail sentence for aiding and abetting rebels who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone during the civil war.
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Philippines: The country formally withdrew from the International Criminal Court as it faced a preliminary inquiry into whether President Rodrigo Duterte has engaged in mass murder and crimes against humanity.
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The U.S. State Department also documented alleged atrocities against Rohingya in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Myanmar's military for crimes against humanity, U.S. officials have told Reuters.
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Critics called for the remarks to be probed by the International Criminal Court, in their ongoing investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Duterte in his drugs war.
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But when Ms. Theissen and her three daughters finally went to court, helping secure the convictions of retired military commanders of crimes against humanity, they found a sort of healing.
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And abuses against the Rohingya — shootings, rapes and burning of villages — have recently intensified to such an extent that United Nations officials have said they may constitute crimes against humanity.
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In October, Burundi moved to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal responsible for investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first country to do so.
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Pope Francis' latest accusation came after a United Nations report, released last Friday, said that actions by members of the army and the police were "very likely" crimes against humanity.
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Congress had narrowly approved the law on Wednesday but opponents criticize that it would allow judges to substantially reduce the sentences of perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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This leaves executives of Nile Petroleum, and potentially other international oil firms, vulnerable to international and possible domestic criminal liability for aiding and abetting war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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The world has been saying "never again" to genocide and crimes against humanity ever since the Nazis perpetrated the Holocaust and their war against civilization in the 2628s and '28503s.
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In 6900, the ICC in the Hague prosecuted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and issued warrants for his arrest in 2628 and 28503.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will extradite on Sunday evening a former Argentinian police officer accused of crimes against humanity during Argentina's "dirty war" four decades ago, a justice ministry spokesperson said.
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The ICC has the authority to hear cases of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the 123 countries that have signed up to it.
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Last Thursday, the Philippine lawmaker Gary Alejano filed an impeachment complaint against Mr. Duterte, accusing him of corruption, murder and crimes against humanity in connection with his bloody antidrug campaign.
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His reference to genocide elevates the charge to the gravest of crimes against humanity: acts aimed at destroying in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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"A government that shields its armed forces from punishment for crimes against humanity fails in its most sacred obligation to defend justice and uphold the rule of law," he said.
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A series of reports from a United Nations human rights commission of inquiry in the last year documented several human rights abuses and accused the regime of crimes against humanity.
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The day before, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced a "preliminary investigation" into the claims that could, one day, lead to charges of crimes against humanity against Duterte in the Hague.
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Petro is vowing to uphold the accord while Duque wants to make changes like requiring ex-combatants to serve time before entering politics if they are guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Prosecutors argue that neither amnesty nor the statute of limitations apply because the executions were part of a "generalized attack" against the Brazilian people and as such were "crimes against humanity."
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Kwon encouraged the Philippines to remain a member and "engage in dialogue" rather than withdrawing, which he said would hurt the court's efforts to punish war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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International Criminal Court judges have ordered the interim release of former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, days after he was acquitted on appeal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Erdogan certainly achieved the first aim, with one German politician dubbing him the "despot on the Bosphorus" and Chancellor Angela Merkel declaring that the remarks only trivialised Nazi crimes against humanity.
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The same day, U.N investigators accused Senior General Min Aung Hlaing of overseeing a campaign with "genocidal intent" and recommended he and other senior officials be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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The 15-member council also said the apparent sale of migrants into slavery in lawless Libya may amount to crimes against humanity, after footage appearing to show Africans being auctioned there.
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Erdogan certainly achieved the first aim, with one German politician dubbing him the "despot on the Bosphorus" and Chancellor Angela Merkel declaring that the remarks only trivialized Nazi crimes against humanity.
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"To this terrorist group, they also give impunity, and political legitimacy to all its actors, including those responsible for massacres [and] the most severe offenses, and crimes against humanity," Uribe said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's top court on Thursday authorized the extradition to Argentina of a former police officer accused of crimes against humanity during the Latin American country's 1976-1983 "dirty war".
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The International Criminal Court at The Hague took another knock when its judges acquitted Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of the Ivory Coast, who had been charged with crimes against humanity.
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Namibia said in March that it would withdraw from the ICC, which sits in The Hague and has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
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This new report builds on preliminary findings by the UN, published in August, which recommended that top military officials in Myanmar be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against humanity and genocide.
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The fall of long-standing despots such as Mr Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, is a necessary part of any transition to democracy.
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Murad has campaigned for a United Nations investigative team to collect and preserve evidence of acts by Islamic State in Iraq that may be war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
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"We will continue to examine on a legal basis whether Mr. Shahroudi was guilty of crimes against humanity, regardless of where he is staying," a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said.
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Earlier this month the UN's Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee said the situation is "getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity".
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Trump ignores the powerful moral imperative behind the Civil War, which was ending in our country one of the history's greatest crimes against humanity: the enslavement of our fellow human beings.
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It was the first time the top generals directly addressed the mounting accusations of human rights abuses which, according to U.N. experts, may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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HISSENE HABRE sat shrouded in sunglasses, a turban and a big white boubou on May 30th, as a court in Senegal found him guilty of crimes against humanity, rape and torture.
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She has accused the Maduro regime of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, claiming the authorities ordered arbitrary arrests, torture and killing of thousands of Venezuelans.
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In response to data gathered by the app, three political appointees were charged with crimes against humanity for contributing to the 1,300 deaths in the violence of the 85033 presidential election.
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Gbagbo was arrested a few months later and taken to the ICC court where he faced charges of crimes against humanity in the West African country, also known as Cote d'Ivoire.
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The landmark agreement prohibits states from transferring conventional weapons — including handguns such as the ones Taurus manufactures — to states and brokers who pose a high risk of committing crimes against humanity.
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"Based on international law, crimes against humanity are generalized or systematic attacks against a civilian population which are committed in accordance with a state policy," the government said in a statement.
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ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked a pre-trial chamber of judges in November for authorization to launch a full investigation into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.
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The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it had approved a prosecution request to investigate crimes against humanity against Myanmar's Rohingya minority who were systematically driven across the border to Bangladesh.
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Bashir, who was charged with crimes against humanity, including genocide, by the International Criminal Court related to the Darfur conflict in Sudan in 2010, has been President for almost three decades.
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Instead, as Beijing commits crimes against humanity, akin in some ways to Nazi Germany's atrocities, the world conducts business as usual with the perpetrators, just as it did in the 1930s.
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The United Nations has called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes following a campaign of persecution and killing of Rohingya.
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She is Kenya's Head of the Office for the organization Physicians for Human Rights, which equips medical and legal professionals to harness forensic evidence to support accountability for crimes against humanity.
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Opinion Columnist The news about Brett Kavanaugh and Rod Rosenstein is addictive, but spare just a moment for crimes against humanity that the United States is supporting in far-off Yemen.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had charged a 27-year-old Syrian man with terrorism and crimes against humanity committed as a member of Islamic State in 2015.
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The court has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into accusations that Mr. Duterte and other Philippine officials committed mass murder and crimes against humanity in the course of the drug crackdown.
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The report also accused the government of Aung San Suu Kyi of contributing to "the commission of atrocity crimes" by failing to shield minorities from crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The international judge, Michael Bohlander of Germany, argued that there was sufficient evidence to indict Mr. Meas Muth in the genocide of the Vietnamese, crimes against humanity, war crimes and homicide.
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When handed life sentences in 2014 at an earlier trial for other crimes against humanity, both men denied responsibility for the regime's brutality, even though they were among its highest leaders.
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Mr. Bashir, the first world leader indicted while in office by the International Criminal Court, should be turned over for prosecution on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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" Myanmar's military has intensified scorched-earth tactics that were of such "devastating cruelty" last year and early this year that the United Nations said they most likely constituted "crimes against humanity.
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Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 after months of nationwide protests, faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes at the ICC in The Hague.
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The court, moreover, was created to prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes among member countries only when their national courts are unwilling or unable to do so.
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"The United States must hold accountable officials in the Chinese government and Communist Party responsible for gross violations of human rights and possible crimes against humanity," Rubio said at the time.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office is investigating five top leaders from the country's ELN guerrilla group for nearly 16,000 war crimes and crimes against humanity, the office said on Wednesday.
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Bashir himself is wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, yet he continues to travel abroad with "near impunity," the lawmakers claimed on Wednesday.
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Last month, a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague opened a preliminary examination into a complaint accusing Duterte and at least 11 officials of crimes against humanity.
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They are accused of three counts of crimes against humanity and seven counts of war crimes stemming from attacks on the village of Bogoro that occurred between January and March 2003.
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We both know, coming from countries deeply affected by gross abuses of human rights, that impunity anywhere in the world fuels and emboldens brutal dictatorships and perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
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After arriving in Israel, and following a remarkable trial that captured global attention, Eichmann was finally brought to justice, convicted of war crimes and hanged by Israel for crimes against humanity.
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"For six years, the international community has stood by as the Syrian government has committed crimes against humanity and war crimes with total impunity," said Amnesty International's Syria researcher, Diana Semaan.
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The Burundian government has denied the findings, and responded by becoming the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, The Hague-based tribunal responsible for trying crimes against humanity.
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In September 2018, a group of Latin American countries and Canada asked the ICC to investigate Venezuela's government over allegations of crimes against humanity in using force to repress political opponents.
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However, the United States would only decide whether genocide or crimes against humanity had been committed "after a thorough review of the available facts and relevant legal analysis," the spokesman said.
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Mr. Piñera promised to halt the same-sex marriage bill Ms. Bachelet introduced in August and said he would improve the conditions of military officers serving sentences for crimes against humanity.
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The panel's report called on Israel to investigate "every protest-related killing and injury in accordance with international standards" to determine whether war crimes or crimes against humanity had been committed.
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The corruption charges Mr. al-Bashir faces in Sudan are unrelated to his decade-old indictment by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Human rights violations committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to the worst atrocities, including crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide, she said, referring to atrocities documented by U.N. investigators.
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The PILPG's refugee interviews formed the basis of a U.S. State Department report released in September, but Washington stopped short of using the terms crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes.
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Two Franco-Gabonese dual citizens arrested during this month's violence filed complaints in a court in Paris on Wednesday, alleging arbitrary detention, torture, attempted murder and crimes against humanity by persons unknown.
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The Rome Statute was adopted on July 17, 1998, but the ICC wasn&apost officially established until July 1, 2002, with a mandate to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Also, under the principal of universal jurisdiction, people suspected of torture or other crimes against humanity can be arrested and tried outside their own countries, as with Chile's former ruler Augusto Pinochet.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Congolese security forces and militia have committed atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including killing and raping women and children, U.N. human rights investigators said on Tuesday.
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Why it matters: In December, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accused the Nicaraguan government of committing crimes against humanity when it crushed protests demanding the ouster of President Daniel Ortega.
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Bashir faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes at the ICC in The Hague in connection with Sudanese military actions in Darfur between 2003 and 2008.
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The CCMSR's ranks include former rebels from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan and former political allies of Habre, who is in prison in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The court in Senegal found Habre guilty of crimes against humanity, rape, forced slavery and kidnapping as well as ordering the killings of 1980,000 people during his rule between 1982 and 1990.
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The terrorist faction was also deemed responsible for "crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing" (that is, misdeeds which do not fit the term "genocide") against fellow Sunni Muslims, Kurds and other groups.
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Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnian-Serb forces during the Bosnian wars of the 28s, was sentenced to life in prison by a UN tribunal for genocide and other crimes against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Kony's arrest in 2005, accusing his organization of carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murders, abductions, sexual enslavement, mutilations and lootings.
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The U.S. government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya that could be used to prosecute Myanmar's military for crimes against humanity, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Such violations constituted war crimes and if there was intent to commit them as part of a widespread or systematic attack against civilians, they would amount to crimes against humanity, he said.
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Facts aside, however, Spicer's blunder highlights the much more concerning, and decidedly bipartisan, rhetorical trend of appropriating unfathomable crimes against humanity, like the Holocaust or slavery, and using them as political metaphors.
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These revelations make it abundantly clear that the current Iranian government has in no fashion moved away from its past crimes against humanity – crimes for which no one has been held accountable.
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There must be "no pardons or amnesties for those responsible for ordering or carrying out gross human rights violations and committing international crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide".
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On Tuesday, the ICC prosecutor said her office had begun a preliminary examination into whether alleged forced deportations of Rohingya from Myanmar into Bangladesh could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Some political commentators say Alejano's impeachment effort had an ulterior motive: to strengthen a complaint filed by a lawyer last month with the International Criminal Court accusing Duterte of crimes against humanity.
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Bashir, who's led his country for almost three decades, has been charged with crimes against humanity, including genocide, by the International Criminal Court related to the Darfur conflict in Sudan in 2010.
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"It's especially grave — and I personally find it just sad — that Nazi comparisons really only lead to one thing: trivializing the incomparable crimes against humanity carried out under National Socialism," she said.
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Working with the Rohingya community and with other countries, we can look at next steps for justice, including the creation of a special international tribunal to prosecute crimes against humanity and genocide.
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For years, the Myanmar security forces have been allowed to get away with ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, with devastating results for the people of Myanmar, in particular its ethnic minorities.
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As an accomplice to the crimes against humanity occurring in Myanmar, Suu Kyi is unworthy of possessing an award dedicated to individuals upholding the very principle she has failed to achieve: peace.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Saturday said it has taken into custody at its detention center in the Netherlands a Malian man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected a prosecution request to extend the custody of former Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo following his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court, which opened in July 2002 and has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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They include firebrand Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, whose popularity in Serbia was boosted by his acquittal last month of crimes against humanity by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Eritrea accused Ethiopia on Tuesday of having orchestrated evidence in a landmark U.N. report last week that accused Eritrean leaders of committing crimes against humanity including torture, murder and enslavement.
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Both men had been accused of crimes against humanity over the violence after the country's 2007 election, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and hundreds of thousands more were displaced.
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His anti-Semitic propaganda entered the mainstream in 23 with an article he wrote for Le Monde, and he was later convicted under a law against the denial of crimes against humanity.
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In general, I believe that journalists should obey the laws of countries they visit, but I make an exception when a regime uses its laws to commit and hide crimes against humanity.
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"This bill will allow Congress to strengthen the president's hand by making it clear to Burmese officials that there will be consequences for their crimes against humanity," Cardin said in a statement.
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María Ángeles Ramos, a federal prosecutor who oversees the department handling crimes against humanity, said earlier records declassified by the United States have been valuable in corroborating evidence and identifying new culprits.
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"This is the first time that Argentina convicts business executives for crimes against humanity relating to union activism," said Victoria Basualdo, a historian who served as an expert witness in the case.
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"Slavery has no place on our world and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights and may amount to crimes against humanity," Mr. Guterres said, without taking questions.
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"Slavery has no place in our world, and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights and may amount to crimes against humanity," Mr. Guterres said in a statement.
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It recommended prosecution on charges of genocide for a campaign that forced some 750,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, and crimes against humanity in connection with actions against other ethnic minorities.
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The International Criminal Court lists several acts "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack" as amounting to crimes against humanity.
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"Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal," he declared slowly and deliberately in Croatian, just moments after judges upheld Mr. Praljak's 1999-year jail sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Those votes were prompted in part by a United Nations investigation that in August called for six top generals in Myanmar to be tried on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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In April, a Filipino lawyer filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court requesting indictments against General dela Rosa, as well as Mr. Duterte and other administration officials, for crimes against humanity.
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Ouattara's main coalition partner defected last year, and his bitter rival, former president Laurent Gbagbo, could return after being acquitted of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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"Reports have been received of an Iraqi minister who is suspected of crimes against humanity," the office said in a statement, without identifying the minister or giving further details about the allegations.
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Since it was set up under the 1998 Rome Statue, the Hague-based court has focused on prosecuting four main crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
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A U.N. investigative team, created by the U.N. Security Council, is collecting and preserving evidence of acts by Islamic State in Iraq that may be war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
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The Burundian government has denied the findings and responded by withdrawing the country from the International Criminal Court, the tribunal based in The Hague that is responsible for trying crimes against humanity.
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Myanmar: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's civilian leader and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, could face prosecution for crimes against humanity stemming from the military's brutal oppression of Rohingya Muslims.
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Courts have convicted 962 of the almost 3,300 people who have been accused of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and stealing babies from pregnant detainees and giving them up for adoption.
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These findings are consistent with a report by the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission published this week, which called for senior generals to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Alex Salmond, the nationalist former first minister of Scotland – who called for the impeachment of Britain's Tony Blair for crimes against humanity in Iraq – regards Putin as having restored Russian national pride.
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The government is "determined to deny safe haven in Canada to war criminals and persons believed to have committed or been complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide," Caron added.
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"Leaders have pushed hate, fought against rights, ignored crimes against humanity and blithely let inequality and suffering spin out of control," the campaign group said in its yearly audit of human rights.
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The Islamist group, which also controls large parts of Syria, is responsible for acts that may "amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide", particularly against minorities, a report said.
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Data at their disposal is expected to include a list, drawn up by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, of individuals implicated in possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"They were just convicted of military collaboration," he said, not war crimes or crimes against humanity, because the Belgian judicial apparatus was not equipped to handle such cases immediately after the war.
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The International Criminal Court has the authority to hear cases of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the 123 countries that have signed up to it.
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A 2017 International Bar Association report cited evidence of "systematic murder (including infanticide), torture, persecution of Christians, rape, forced abortions, starvation and overwork leading to countless deaths," and other crimes against humanity.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea boycotted a U.N. review of its human rights record on Monday, shunning calls to hold to account the Pyongyang leadership for crimes against humanity documented by the world body.
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The bloodiest killing field has been Africa's Great Lakes region, where political strongmen have responded to instability in the 20th and 21st centuries by committing crimes against humanity and, in some cases, genocide.
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And he most certainly should ask how the international community would ultimately deal with North Korea's human rights abuses, which arguably make Kim and his coterie subject to prosecution for crimes against humanity?
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Five Latin American countries and Canada on Wednesday said they had asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Maduro's government over allegations of crimes against humanity in using force to repress political opponents.
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Last month, a Myanmar government probe - led by former head of military intelligence and now Vice President, Myint Swe - rejected allegations of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during the crackdown last year.
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A commission of inquiry suggested that North Korea has committed crimes against humanity "on a massive scale" in its labor camps, and we should push for access to these camps by humanitarian organizations.
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The charges - two of crimes against humanity and three of war crimes - stem from his militia's intervention on the side of CAR's then-president Ange-Felix Patasse in the neighboring country's civil war.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N. human rights report said on Wednesday.
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He thinks it an outrage that some of the FARC's leaders will take their seats in congress without confessing to crimes against humanity, serving sentences for them and making reparations to their victims.
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In our view, there are many legitimate refugees fleeing the Assad regime's sustained campaign of crimes against humanity and the genocidal acts perpetrated by ISIS against the Yazidis, Christians, and other religious minorities.
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"We believe that walking out in protest is an appropriate reaction to a head of state mocking efforts to ensure accountability for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity," Trudeau said.
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Trump's attacks on CNN are solely based on the fact that the news network will report on Trump's various crimes against humanity without the rosy shine that viewers might see on Fox News.
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Thus, Karadzic was also convicted of crimes against humanity, war crimes, persecution and other offenses where the acts in question met those standards but not the specific intent to destroy required for genocide.
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The three groups - Sherpa, CPCR (Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda) and Ibuka France - said on Thursday that their suit accused BNP Paribas of complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Last year German prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant for Hassan, accusing him of "war crimes and crimes against humanity" for his part in Syria's war and the mass protests that preceded it.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's military prosecutors sent former president Ion Iliescu and former prime minister Petre Roman to trial on Tuesday on charges of crimes against humanity over violent clashes in Bucharest in 1990.
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The United Nations has accused the army of ethnic cleansing to push Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar, and rights groups have said the army has committed crimes against humanity and called for sanctions.
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Eritrean leaders should be tried for crimes against humanity including torture, rape, murder and enslaving hundreds of thousands of people, an investigation set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council said in 2016.
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Secretary-General Guterres also noted how terror groups, from ISIS to Boko Haram, are forcing women and children into "de-humanizing servitude" -- actions that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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In January, a U.N. panel found that air strikes had targeted civilians, assessed that some of the attacks could be crimes against humanity and recommended the U.N. Security Council consider establishing an investigation.
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Even though there is broad, bipartisan agreement that those responsible for these crimes against humanity should be held responsible, President Trump appears uninterested in fulfilling his obligation to Congress and the American people.
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Given the gravity of the offenses of which Duterte brags, which constitute crimes against humanity under international law, it is important that we should hear what Trump has to say about their conversation.
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Whether through domestic war crimes tribunals, hybrid courts or the principle of universal jurisdiction, efforts are underway in many nations to seek justice for victims of the worst crimes against humanity, including genocide.
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In 19 he became the first person in France to be convicted under a law that criminalized the denial of crimes against humanity as they were defined in 1946 by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
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Deprivation of citizenship consequently could be counted among the crimes against humanity, and some of the worst recognized crimes in this category have in fact, and not incidentally, been preceded by mass expatriations.
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A newly released United Nations report should put an end to any hesitation about holding the generals, and their civilian enablers, to account for what they have done: genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Other books that were banned included "The Poisonous Mushroom" and "The Mongrel," both written by Third Reich publisher Julius Streicher, who was later executed for crimes against humanity for managing a Nazi newspaper.
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"The sentencing of two company executives leaves no doubt that Ford was directly involved in committing crimes against humanity against workers, and that is historic," said Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, one of the lawyers.
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Myanmar's army commander and other top generals should face trial in an international court for _________ against Rohingya Muslims and for crimes against humanity targeting other ethnic minorities, United Nations experts said on Aug.
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And President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines announced plans this year to quit the court amid an investigation into allegations that officials committed mass murder and crimes against humanity during a narcotics crackdown.
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He was convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the breakup of Yugoslavia, including the mass executions of 2000,217 men and boys in Srebrenica.
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The problem is so uncontrolled that the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, which looks into crimes against humanity, told the United Nations Security Council on Monday that she was considering an investigation.
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As such, its prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, should immediately open an investigation into the conduct of Mr. Maduro and other senior government officials with regard to whether they have culpability in crimes against humanity.
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In 2014, amid accusations that the Kenyan government had harassed potential witnesses, Ms. Bensouda dropped charges of crimes against humanity against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, saying she lacked enough evidence to proceed.
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In 2016 Burundi suspended all cooperation with the U.N. human rights office in Burundi after a U.N.-commissioned report accused the Bujumbura government and its supporters of being responsible for crimes against humanity.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A wanted warlord in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has surrendered, five years after he escaped from prison following his conviction for crimes against humanity, the provincial governor said on Wednesday.
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The demonstrations were in response to a Supreme Court ruling this month that reduced the sentence of a man convicted of crimes against humanity during the country's military dictatorship from 29 to 2000.
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For all those who have been laser-focused on doubling-down on xenophobic rhetoric and codifying hate and discrimination in our nation's laws, know that you, too, are guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Israel is not a member of the court but if Israeli citizens commit war crimes or crimes against humanity on the territory of a member state they could fall under the ICC's jurisdiction.
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On Tuesday, prosecutors presented opening arguments in the trial of one of the Lord's Resistance Army's senior commanders, Dominic Ongwen, who is charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte intends to pull his country out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), shortly after the judicial body launched a crimes against humanity investigation into his controversial war on drugs.
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In its final verdict before it is dissolved next month, the U.N. tribunal upheld the convictions of six Bosnian Croats found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War.
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Their lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, said both men's statements were tantamount to accusations of "crimes against humanity" and they would take their case to the International Criminal Court in The Hague by April.
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Gbagbo and Ble Goude were acquitted in January by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague of charges of crimes against humanity during the violence, in which some 3,000 people were killed.
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A United Nations report on human rights under Kim's regime found that his government's crimes against humanity included enslavement, extermination, forced abortion, imprisonment, murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and torture.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson forcibly condemned the Myanmar military's brutal crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority last week, but he has consistently failed to call it ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity.
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Duterte's administration has already killed at least 7,000 people, mostly small-time drug users and dealers, in a bloody war on drugs that Human Rights Watch says may amount to crimes against humanity.
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There were reasonable grounds to believe the Myanmar military committed crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes against the minority group, the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) said in a report.
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The head of the regime for more than 25 years, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been charged by the International Criminal Court with multiple counts of genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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I'm also a legal historian, and my research on genocide and crimes against humanity has made clear that while the Holocaust is unique in its scale and implementation, the perpetrators and motivations are not.
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The Rohingya deserve justice for what they have suffered - perpetrators of human rights violations and crimes against humanity must be held to account so Rohingya children are protected from these atrocities ever happening again.
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To date, the ICC has prosecuted and indicted individuals involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan, Kenya, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ivory Coast, and Uganda.
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Here was Karadzic, the political leader of those same Serb paramilitaries who had committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, a decade and a half later, smug and smart, badgering the Dutchbat officer.
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As a high-ranking employee in the Syrian intelligence service, Anwar R. is strongly suspected of participating in crimes against humanity by torturing opposition activists between 2011 and 2012, prosecutors said in a statement.
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The United Nations must also continue to hold individuals in the government directly accountable for crimes against humanity, and all countries, including China and Russia, should be pressured to stop accepting North Korean laborers.
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Merkel said Erdogan's comments only served to trivialize the unfathomable suffering of those affected by Nazi crimes against humanity, and were particularly sad given the many common factors that connected the two NATO allies.
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South Africa's justice minister added that the country remains committed to holding those who committed crimes against humanity accountable, and that it intended to work closely with the African Union and other African countries.
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With 123 member states, including the entire European Union, the ICC was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity when a country is unable or unwilling to prosecute perpetrators.
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"The call by a U.N. panel to bring Israeli occupation leaders to justice is evidence that occupation forces conducted crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip," Hamas official Ismail Rudwan told Reuters in Gaza.
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" In a summary of its referral, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry alleged that Israel maintains and protects its settlements "by committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.
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Stung by the criticism, his coalition joined forces with the opposition in the senate on May 10th to pass, unanimously, a law stating that two-for-one should not apply to crimes against humanity.
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Human Rights Watch said though there was no evidence showing Duterte or top officials planned or ordered extrajudicial killings, they could be implicated through incitement to violence, to instigate murder, and crimes against humanity.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday asked judges to approve war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against a man suspected of committing atrocities in Timbuktu in Mali.
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The violence of that year was described by Human Rights Watch as a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," which involved "crimes against humanity" perpetrated by local mobs, at times with the support of state agencies.
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The international community and U.S. Congress should have already disabused President Obama of the notion that the Rouhani administration could be reasoned with over such issues as human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.
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The 39-year-old was all smiles as she entered the United Nations headquarters in New York City, where she celebrated the announced investigation into the crimes against humanity committed by ISIS in Iraq.
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"In the case of Syria, we are there to remind everyone that where there are allegations that reach the threshold of war crimes or crimes against humanity that amnesties are not permissible," he said.
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