Case School of Law Logo PILPG Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Hassan FREDERICK K. COX Volume 14 - Issue 03 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER March 16, 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 CENTRAL AFRICA Central African Republic Moscow Calls French Media's Accusations against Russian Instructors in CAR 'Defamatory' (Urdu Point News) New, inclusive gov’t formed in CAR (Africa News) Central Africa armed group says government failing to honour peace commitments (Daily Monitor) Central Africa peace deal under strain as militias quit (Business Recorder) Sudan & South Sudan Sudan, a State of Emergency (Sudan Tribune) After 30 Years, Sudan’s President to Step Down Amid Protests (Jerusalem Post) Sexual Violence Persists in South Sudan Despite Recent Political Strides, Top United Nations Official Says while Briefing Security Council (Relief Web) Sudan’s Unlawful State of Emergency (The Washington Post) Solidarity with the Sudanese revolution! (Fourth International) South Sudan peace deal doomed if disputes not settled: think-tank (Reuters) Democratic Republic of the Congo Unknown attackers threaten to worsen Ebola epidemic in Congo (Reuters) Israel to Suspend Expulsion of Hundreds of Congolese Migrants (Haaretz) DRC: Ebola response failing to gain the upper hand on the epidemic (Reliefweb) WEST AFRICA Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon How Climate Change is Fueling Extremism (CNN) "Place the Stigma of Sexual Violence Where it Rightfully Belongs- On the Perpetrators" (Forbes) Mali Mali troops killed by landmines in Mopti region (The Defense Post) Liberia Liberia: 'No War Cirmes Court', Say Some Victims (Front Page Africa) EAST AFRICA Uganda Former Rebel Fighter Denied Protective Measures, Testifies About Kony’s Character (International Justice Monitor) Former Rebel Fighter Denied Protective Measures, Testifies About Kony’s Character (International Justice Monitor) Kenya Kenya police summon finance minister over dams scandal (Reuters) Kenya Prosecutor Targets 3 Cabinet Secretaries in Probe (Bloomberg) Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) Jurors hear two sides to asylum seeker suspected of genocide atrocities (Boston Herald) Congo-Kinshasa: Bemba Seeks U.S.$ 77.7 Million Award From ICC, With U.S.$ 24 Million to Go to Victims ( All Africa) Somalia Airstrike in Somalia Kills 26 al-Shabab (Military.com) Trump Administration Steps Up Air War in Somalia (The New York Times) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Serb Figthers’ Indictment Details Strpci Train Massacre Plot (Balkan Insight) Strpci Massacre Defendants Plead Not Guilty In Serbia (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Court Quashes Assault Acquittal of Bosniak Policeman (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Army Ex-Commander Goes on Trial for Shelling Village (Balkan Insight) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Public Monitoring of ICTY Verdict on Radovan Karadzic on March 20th in Sarajevo (Sarajevo Times) Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Prosecutors Urged to Probe Serb Chetnik Rally ‘Hate Speech’ (Balkan Insight) Serbia ‘Rejects Complaint’ About Croat Brothers’ Abduction (Balkan Insight) Kosovo’s New War Crimes Strategy Faces Political Obstacles (Balkan Insight) Turkey US human rights report ‘false, biased,’ Turkey says (Daily Sabah) MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Iraq In six days, dental professor launched first clinic in Iraq to treat families displaced after ISIS attacks (University of Buffalo News Center) ISIL fighters' families struggle in Iraqi society (Al Jazeera) Iraq’s new war against Islamic State: Halting the group’s budding rural resurgence (Los Angeles Times) Planning for Yazidi genocide museum underway in Iraq (Al-Monitor) Syria Assad can still be brought to justice – and Europe’s role is crucial (The Guardian) UN inquiry on Syria details extensive human right abuses, war crimes in Afrin (Ahval News) Syrian Kurds welcome UN report documenting war crimes in Afrin (Kurdistan 24) Here’s how perpetrators of crimes in Syria are being prosecuted (The Washington Post) Syrian refugees launch war crimes case against Assad at ICC (The New Arab) Syria war: Lawyers submit first war crimes cases against Assad (BBC) Lawyers hope refugees' case against Damascus will be breakthrough (Reuters) ICC urged to investigate Syria's forced deportations (Al Jazeera) UN Investigators Hot on Trail of Syrian War Criminals (Haaretz) UN Investigators Preparing to Bring War Crimes Charges Against Assad Regime (The Tower) Yemen American and British bombs killed more than 200 Yemeni civilians, report says (Washington Post) Children Raped in Besieged Yemeni City of Taiz Amnesty States (Al Bawaba) Special Tribunal for Lebanon Israel and Palestine UN: IDF Deliberately Shot Children on Gaza Border in Apparent War Crime (The Jerusalem Post) 21 Gazans said wounded by Israeli fire as thousands riot on border (The Times of Israel) IDF Strikes Hamas Post in Response to Explosive Balloons (The Jerusalem Post) IDF Officer Seriously Injured After Car Rams Into Troops in West Bank (The Jerusalem Post) UN Human Rights Chief Raps Israel Over 'Immediate Dismissal' of Report on Killed Gaza Protesters (Haaretz) Israeli Aircrafts Attack Hamas Targets in Gaza After Projectile Fired Into Israel (Haaretz) ACRI Asks High Court to Order IDF to Indict Col. Who Killed Fleeing Palestinian Rock-Thrower (The Jerusalem Post) Libya Europe’s shameful failure to end the torture and abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya (Amnesty International) RPG blast in Benghazi cause injuries (The Libya Observer) Gulf Region Senate votes to end US support for Saudi forces in Yemen (Fox News) ASIA Afghanistan Lawyer charged fro exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan (International Committee of the Fourth International) US bars entry to ICC members investigating alleged war crimes (TRT World) Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Investigators find war crimes evidence against 5 Mymensingh men (The Daily Star) U.N. envoy fears 'new crisis' for Rohingya if moved to Bangladesh island (Reuters) ICC officials visit Bangladesh to look into Myanmar case: U.N. investigator (Reuters) War Crimes Investigations in Burma Myanmar Army takes over HQ of NSCN-K rebels (The Asian Age) ICC probes Myanmar abuses vs Rohingya (The Manila Times) Burma Army Clashes With KIA, TNLA During Unilateral Ceasefire (BNI Multimedia Group) 9 police killed in attack in Myanmar's Rakhine (Channel News Asia) AMERICAS North & Central America Central Americans confront amnesty for war crimes (Al Jazeera) Vote Could Free More Than 30 Men Accused of War Crimes in Guatemala (The New York Times) Facing Protests, Guatemala Postpones Vote on Amnesty for War Crimes (The New York Times) South America Campaigning politician found murdered in western Colombia, raising alarm for upcoming elections (Colombia Reports) Choco, on the Pacific Coast, is among Colombia’s poorest regions, where there are illegal mines and drug trafficking routes, some of which are violently disputed, others of which are controlled by either the ELN guerrilla group or paramilitary group AGC. Colombia’s War of Neoliberal Economics (NACLA) More than 140 children may have had their hearts removed in ancient sacrifice in Peru (Los Angeles Times) Colombia’s war crimes tribunal opens investigation into child recruitment (Colombia Reports) Colombia conflict: 'If I keep quiet, I become an accomplice' (BBC News) Venezuela We need to understand the Responsibility to Protect before we (mis)apply it in Venezuela (The London School of Economics and Political Science) Weaponizing food to harm political enemies (Newsday) The Legality of Military Intervention in Venezuela: FAQ (Caracas Chronicles) TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission Geneva gears up to dump Tamil mothers' appeal for war crimes accountability (Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka) Transitional Justice Act amendment unlikely this Parliament session: Secy (The Himalayan Times) Former ECOWAS VP Edward Singhateh Implicated In Brutal Murder Of Gambian Finance Minister, Others (Sahara Reporters) Conflict victims fear breach of confidentiality (The Himalayan Times) Terrorism Vote Could Free More Than 30 Men Accused of War Crimes in Guatemala (New York Times) We need a war crimes tribunal into the atrocities of Islamic State (ABC News Australia) Piracy China-Somalia fishing deal may revive sea piracy (TRT World) Gender-Based Violence Historic milestone: Syrian women gather in democratic congress (Daily Sabah) Who will speak out for the forgotten women of conflict? (Arab News) Women rise beyond the constraints of war (TRT World) Commentary and Perspectives Lawyers hope refugees’ case against Damascus will be breakthrough (Reuters) Ex-Congolese VP seeks damages from war crimes court (Reuters) China