Topic: genocide
Rwandan ex-intel chief convicted in genocide trial
March 17, 2014 ·
By JAMEY KEATEN / Associated Press / March 14, 2014 PARIS (AP) ‹ Paris court delivered France¹s first-ever conviction for genocide Friday, sentencing a Rwandan former intelligence chief to 25 years in prison over the 1994 killings of at least 500,000 people in the African country. The landmark trial of 54-year-old Pascal Simbikangwa sets off what could be […]
Read More...Syria should be referred to ICC, UN's Navi Pillay says
December 13, 2011 · , BBC News
The top United Nations human rights official has told the Security Council that Syria should be referred to the International Criminal Court over its crackdown on anti-government protests.
Read More...R.A. No. 9851 – breakthrough law for IHL enforcement in the Philippines
January 8, 2010 · By Atty. Soliman M. Santos, Jr., CSI-IHL
Co-Founder/Convenor, Civil Society Initiatives for International Humanitarian Law (CSI-IHL) Quezon City, Philippines, 8 January 2010 Republic Act No. 9851, the new “Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity” signed into law on 11 December 2009, is a breakthrough law for the enforcement of international humanitarian law (IHL) as […]
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