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War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 15, Issue 10 PILPG Logo Case School of Law Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief David Krawiec FREDERICK K. COX Volume 15 - Issue 10 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER July 4, 2020 Technical Editor-in-Chief Erica Hudson Founder/Advisor Michael P. Scharf Managing Editors Alexander Peters Faculty Advisor Matthew Casselberry Jim Johnson War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please email [email protected] and type "subscribe" in the subject line. Opinions expressed in the articles herein represent the views of their authors and are not necessarily those of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch staff, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law or Public International Law & Policy Group. Contents AFRICA NORTH AFRICA Libya Libya: UN Establishes Fact Finding Body; A Step Toward Accountability (Human Rights Watch) CENTRAL AFRICA Central African Republic Sudan & South Sudan Trial of Alleged Sudan War Criminal Sends Strong Signal, Prosecutor says (Voice of America) Democratic Republic of the Congo Twenty civilians killed in attacks on northeastern Congo villages (Reuters) UN condemns killing of Indonesian peacekeeper in DR Congo (UN News) UNHCR appalled at rising violence against displaced in eastern DRC (Relief Web) WEST AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Ivorian Ex-Minister Appeals to Return Home as ICC Hearing Looms (Bloomberg) ICC prosecutors cite grave errors in Gbagbo acquittal at start of appeal (Reuters) Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon Mali As UN Renews Peacekeeping in Mali, Civilian Protection Requires Ongoing Push for Air Assets (Just Security) In central Mali, community fighting and impunity, ‘overwhelming’ efforts to protect civilians (UN News) Liberia Liberia: ‘General’ Bill Horace, Commander in Charles Taylor’s NPFL, Gunned Down in Canada (Front Page Africa) EAST AFRICA Uganda Kenya Kenya: Wives’ Property Rights Unprotected (Human Rights Watch) Three people shot dead by Kenyan police at protest (Aljazeera) Rwanda Financier of 1994 Rwandan genocide Félicien Kabuga arrested in Paris (International Committee of the Fourth) Somalia Somalia’s COVID-19 Response: Internally displaced people especially at risk (Reliefweb) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Bosnian War Rape Suspect Extradited from United States (Balkan Transitional Justice) Bosnia to Transfer Croat General’s War Case to Croatia (Balkan Transitional Justice) Burden of Proof: Inside Bosnia’s War Trial Case Archives (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Court Urged to Acquit Croats of Abusing Prisoners (Balkan Transitional Justice) Bosnian Prosecutors Office: Incorrect Information that 315 Cases of War Crimes from “A” List disappeared (Sarajevo Times) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Felicien Kabuga, Will Covid-19 Help Him Delay Justice? (KT Press) UN Security Council adopts Vietnamese-compiled resolution (Vietnam Plus) Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Hungary to Extradite Serb War Suspect to Serbia, not Kosovo (Balkan Transitional Justice) War Criminal Seselj Fails to Enter Serbian Parliament (Balkan Transitional Justice) Kosovo President Thaci indicted for war crimes (Herald-Mail Media) Kosovo: War Crimes Indictment Advances Justice (Human Rights Watch) Bosnian Soldier ‘Knew About Abuse at Wartime Detention Camp’ (Balkan Transitional Justice) Turkey Will defending human rights in Turkey cost our colleagues their freedom? (Amnesty International) MIDDLE-EAST Iraq Iraq: Muslim scholars say prisoners being tortured (Middle East Monitor) Exclusive: British army sent unqualified investigators to Iraq where troops ‘got away with murder’, veterans say (Daily Maverick) What do we miss when we only go after ISIS fighters as terrorists? (Syria Direct) US State Department: 500 civilians killed in 2019 Iraq terrorist attacks (Rudaw Media Network) Mercosur President demands immediate ceasefire amid fears of Turkish war crimes in Iraqi Kurdistan (Morning Star) Syria 5 killed, 12 injured in YPG/PKK terrorist attack in Syria’s Tal Halaf (Daily Sabah) Yemen UK fails to inspect factory supplying Saudi's Yemen war (Anadolu Agency) The blockade of Yemen must be held as the war crime (SachTimes) Rampant torture by all sides in Yemen’s unofficial jails may amount to war crimes, report shows (Independent) Special Tribunal for Lebanon Israel & Palestine Accident or ramming? Different versions for Israeli checkpoint shooting (The Jerusalem Post) Fresh complaint submitted to ICC over US-Israel war crimes in Palestine (Middle East Monitor) Israel undeterred by international opposition to annexation (The Washington Post) Gulf Region Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach (Daily Maverick) UN: Children in war must never be a political bargaining chip (Amnesty International) Rampant torture by all sides in Yemen’s unofficial jails may amount to war crimes, report shows (The Independent) ASIA Afghanistan No more British troops will be prosecuted over Afghanistan war crimes, Veteran's minister Johnny Mercer says after £10m probe was closed without bringing any charges (Daily Mail) UN says Afghan health workers facing deliberate attacks (Minneapolis Star Tribune) War crimes court's members back tribunal against Trump sanctions threat (The National) Roadside bombing kills 6 civilians in northern Afghanistan (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Lawyers urge Trump to rescind sanctions and travel bans for International Criminal Court (Washington Post) 'Profound regret': ICC prosecutor on being hit with US sanctions over Afghanistan war crimes probe (Euro News) Australia’s SAS chief admits his forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan, as claims emerge that civilians were killed, including one who was ‘stomped to death’ (Daily Mail) Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal War Crimes Investigations in Myanmar Myanmar: Kirin Should Cut Ties to Military (Human Rights Watch) Myanmar Road Blockades in Rakhine Conflict Leave 3,000 Villagers Hungry (Radio Free Asia) Myanmar Army Orders Cluster of Villages Housing 10,000 Emptied For Rakhine Operation (Radio Free Asia) Myanmar Army Says it Has Convicted Three Troops For 2017 Massacre of Rohingya (Radio Free Asia) AMERICAS North & Central America Human rights groups turn their sights on Trump's America (Politico) South America Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19 (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) Colombia horrified by military gang rape of 13-year-old indigenous girl (Colombia Reports) The Dictatorship Ushered in an Era Organized, Violent Repression that Went Unpunished (Folha de S. Paolo) Outrage in Colombia over alleged soldier abuse of Indigenous (Washington Post) Indignation in Colombia Amid Spree of Assassinations and the Rape of an Indigenous Girl by Soldiers (News Click) Venezuela Hybrid Criminal Cartel Note 1: Former Venezuelan National Assembly Member Adel El Zabayar Indicted on Charges of Narcoterrorism and Links to Hezbollah (Small Wars Journal) TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission NYC Mayor de Blasio looks to South Africa for inspiration for new racial justice commission (NY Daily News) 5 years after Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous athletes say sports programs have not done enough (CBC) Man killed in weekend shooting in Ontario linked to Liberian war crimes (The Globe and Mail) Congo commission: apologies are not enough (The Brussels Times) Liberia: “He Was A Very Notorious War General” – Massa Washington Describes Bill Horace Recently Gunned Down in Canada (Front Page Africa) Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco DAs launch commissions for victims of unjust policing (SF Gate) Terrorism Piracy Piracy Surges in Gulf of Mexico, Prompting U.S. Warning (New York Times) Nigeria begins trial of pirates under new law (The Nation) Pirates kidnap six off Benin: authorities (Yahoo! News) Gender-Based Violence Commentary and Perspectives WORTH READING Itamar Mann: Border Crimes as Crimes against Humanity AFRICA NORTH AFRICA Libya Libya: UN Establishes Fact Finding Body; A Step Toward Accountability (Human Rights Watch) June 22, 2020 The United Nations Human Rights Council on June 22, 2020 took a positive step toward accountability by establishing a fact-finding body to investigate violations by all sides in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The African Group at the Human Rights Council put forward a resolution during the council’s 43rd session asking Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to immediately dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by all parties to the Libya conflict since the beginning of 2016. The request also included preserving evidence with a view to ensuring that those responsible for abuses are held accountable. The resolution passed by consensus. “The establishment of a fact finding mission into abuses in Libya is a wake-up call to warlords and armed groups that they could be held accountable for serious crimes committed by their rank and file,” said Eric Goldstein, acting Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “What’s important now is for countries at the Human Rights Council to ensure that this new body gets the necessary support and
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