PILPG Logo Case School of Law Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Hassan FREDERICK K. COX Volume 14 - Issue 13 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER August 04, 2019 Technical Editor-in-Chief Kurt Harris Founder/Advisor Michael P. Scharf Managing Editors Gloria Neilson Faculty Advisor Mary Preston 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 CENTRAL AFRICA Sudan & South Sudan Civilians And Military Leaders Sign Power-Sharing Deal In Sudan (NPR) U.S. Balked at Sanctions on Sudan (Foreign Policy) Sprouting Weapons of War (OCCRP) Democratic Republic of the Congo UN Criminal Court Upholds Reparations for Congo Victims (Courthouse News Service) DR Congo: Child soldiers and the conflict in Kasai-Central (AlJazeera) WEST AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Achieving Justice For Victims And Ending Impunity Across The Continent By Femi Falana (sahara reporters) Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon Contact made with pirates holding 10 Turkish sailors off Nigeria (Daily Sabah) Insurgents in Nigeria Hold 6 Aid Workers (Human Rights Watch) Nigeria: Toll in suspected Boko Haram funeral attack rises to 65 (Al Jazeera) Mali Scientists want to make it a war crime to damage the environment in a conflict (Vox) Liberia Legislative Conference on War Crimes Court Begins Today (Liberian Daily Observer) EAST AFRICA Rwanda UN Prosecutor IDs South Africa for Inaction Over Rwandan Genocide Suspect (South African News) Who Are the Eight ICTR-Indicted Genocide Fugitives Still at Large? (New Times) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Kosovo Politicians Voice Sympathy After ‘War Crimes Suspect’ PM Resigns (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Ministers Fail to Adopt National War Crimes Strategy (Balkan Insight) Serbia Still Making Slow Progress on War Crimes: Report (Balkan Insight) Serbia Wants Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla’s Extradition on War Crime Charges (Balkan Insight) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Karadzic appeals the Mechanism’s Ban on Video Calls from Detention Unit (Sarajevo Times) Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Turkey MIDDLE-EAST Iraq After Defeat of ISIS, Iraq’s Christians and Yazidis Adjust to Uneasy Peace (Daily Signal) ISIS Caliphate Is Gone, But Threat Remains, Dunford Says (Department of Defense) Iraq Unearths Mass Graves Believed to Contain Kurds Slain in 1987-88 (Voice of America) Iraq exhumes bodies thought to be Kurds killed by Saddam (Yahoo News) Syria Russia and Syria step up airstrikes against civilians in Idlib (The Guardian) Airstrikes Hit Market in Rebel-Held Syrian Town, Killing 27, Activists Say (New York Times) Syria war: 'World shrugs' as 103 civilians killed in 10 days (BBC) Kurdish cities in Syria witness bloody week (Al Monitor) Yemen UN again blacklists Saudi-led forces for Yemen child killings (Al Jazeera) Yemen’s government blames rebels for deadly market strike (The Washington Post) Remote Weapons System not used in the Yemen war, Australian defence company EOS says (Australian Broadcasting Company Investigations) Special Tribunal for Lebanon Israel & Palestine The Protest Dispersed. Then an Israeli Sniper Shot a 9-year-old Palestinian Boy in the Head (Haaretz) Israel Demolishes 70 Homes in Palestinian-controlled East Jerusalem Neighborhood (Haaretz) Ex-Israel PM Ehud Olmert cancels Switzerland trip over war crimes arrest threat (Middle East Monitor) Israeli army kills Palestinian in weekly Gaza protest (Al Jazeera) Gulf Region Trump Vetoes Bills Intended To Block Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia (NPR) Australian weapons shipped to Saudi and UAE as war rages in Yemen (The Guardian) ASIA Afghanistan Official New Zealand Inquiry into Afghan War Crimes Further Exposed as a Whitewash (World Socialist Web Site) Afghan Government and Nato Killing More Civilians than the Taliban (The Guardian) Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Jewish Law Experts Help Cambodian Genocide Victims Find Justice at Tribunal (The Times of Isreal) Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal ICC Delegation in Bangladesh ‘Preparing Way’ for Probe into Atrocities against Rohingya (Radio Free Asia) Pakistani ISI hired British journalist against Bangladesh (Afternoon Voice) War Crimes Investigations in Myanmar Myanmar military units linked to Rohingya atrocities accused of committing new abuses (Japan Times) Myanmar’s Top Officials Banned from Entering the U.S.A. (The Organization for World Peace) Burma Army restrictions on access to conflict-affected areas have made it nearly impossible to provide relief. (BNI Multimedia Group) MP urges MNHRC to conduct field inspections (BNI Multimedia Group) ASEAN can no longer turn a blind eye to Myanmar's atrocities (Aljazeera) ICC Delegation Head Wraps up Visit to Bangladesh, Rohingya Camps (Radio Free Asia) UNICEF Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report #6 (January-June 2019) (ReliefWeb) Atrocity Alert No. 164: Myanmar (Burma), Afghanistan and Syria (ReliefWeb) TNLA Reports ‘Frequent’ Clashes despite Burma Army Ceasefire (BNI Multimedia Group) AMERICAS North & Central America Libyan Families Sue Haftar in U.S. for War Crimes (Inside Arabia) The Missing State Department Memo on US Officials’ Possible Aiding and Abetting Saudi War Crimes (Just Security) US Leaders Can Now Be Prosecuted for Illegal War (Truthout) South America Colombia creates 'elite unit' of labor inspectors to combat human trafficking (Reuters) Former sex slave leads Uruguay's first march against human trafficking (Reuters) The shocking things Colombia’s war crimes tribunal found in Medellin (Colombia Reports) Colombians take to streets to protest activist slayings (Associated Press) Killing of radio journalist highlights dangers for local reporters in Colombia's border region (Committee to Protect Journalists) Venezuela What the UN Report Gets Right-and Wrong-About the Crisis in Venezuela (The Nation) Venezuela is prepared to wage ‘absolute war’ against US: Maduro ally (Al-Masdar News) Identifying and Responding to Criminal Threats from Venezuela (CSIS) TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission Restructuring of selection panel demanded (The Himalayan Times) Legislative Conference on War Crimes Court Begins Today (Liberian Daily Observer) TRC, CIEDP nominations next month (The Himalayan Times) Liberia: Lawmakers Leading Advocacy for Implementation of TRC Recommendations in House of Representatives (Liberian Daily Observer) Title War Crimes Court Resolution Gets Green Light from Lawmakers (Front Page Africa) Terrorism Syria war: 'World shrugs' as 103 civilians killed in 10 days (BBC News) Russia Accuses U.S. of Stealing Syria’s Oil, Using Money to Fund Militant Groups(Newsweek) Haftar’s Rebranded Coups (Carnegie Center for International Peace) Piracy Maritime Piracy (Hellenic Shipping News) Piracy, mental health among issues for sailors, Canadian chaplain finds (Catholic Philly) Gulf of Guinea must look east to solve its pirate problem (Daily Maverick) Gender-Based Violence Commentary and Perspectives The Missing State Department Memo on US Officials’ Possible Aiding and Abetting Saudi War Crimes (Just Security) WORTH READING The Judiciary of International Criminal Law: Double Decline and Practical Turn: Mikkel Jarle Christensen AFRICA NORTH AFRICA CENTRAL AFRICA Sudan & South Sudan Official Website of the International Criminal Court ICC Public Documents - Situation in Darfur, Sudan Civilians And Military Leaders Sign Power-Sharing Deal In Sudan (NPR) By Shannon Van Sant July 17, 2019 The leaders of Sudan's pro-democracy movement and the country's ruling military council signed a power-sharing agreement on Wednesday. The two sides held a signing ceremony in the capital, Khartoum, marking the end of three months of protests and negotiations. The document is a step toward civilian rule, but details of the agreement, including how power would be divided, still need to be worked out. The deal establishes a joint civilian-military sovereign council to govern Sudan during a three-year transition period before elections. The council will be made up of five civilians, five people from the military, and an 11th person to be chosen by the council. A military leader will head the council for the first 21 months, and then a civilian leader will lead it for the following 18 months. Further terms of the transitional period will be detailed in a constitutional declaration, but disagreements persist over how power would be shared among the sovereign council, the Cabinet and the legislative body, and some protesters have criticized the deal for not handing power over to civilians immediately. There is also disagreement over an investigation into military leaders' role in the use of violence to crush protests, and whether they can have immunity from prosecution, according to The Associated Press. On June 3, troops opened fire on demonstrators in Khartoum and killed at least 128 people. On the day of the protest NPR spoke with the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors, which was helping to coordinate the demonstrations.