War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 13, Issue 25 -- January 21, 2019 PILPG Logo Case School of Law Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief Taylor Frank FREDERICK K. COX Volume 13 - Issue 25 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER January 21, 2019 Technical Editor-in-Chief Ashley Mulryan Founder/Advisor Michael P. Scharf Managing Editors Sarah Lucey Lynsey Rosales 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 More than 12,000 displaced to ‘roads and forests’ after Bakouma violence (Defense Post) Central African government to meet armed groups in Khartoum for peace talks (Defense Post) Deadly militia attacks in C. Africa ahead of president's visit (Yahoo News) Moscow Wants to Establish Military Base in Central Africa (Albawaba) Sudan & South Sudan Why are Foreign Powers Helping an Indicted War Criminal Remain the President of Sudan (Pacific Standard) Sudan protests spread to Darfur as Bashir vows rallies won't force him out Democratic Republic of the Congo A Congo War Crimes Decision: What It Means for Universal Jurisdiction Litigation in Germany and Beyond (Just Security) UN urges DR Congo to refrain from violence after election result (Aljazeera) Congo under mounting foreign pressure for vote recount (Reuters) file:///C/Users/mulry/Documents/WCPW/Volume%2013/Issue%2025%201.21/Full%2025.html[1/23/2019 6:05:58 PM] War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 13, Issue 25 -- January 21, 2019 SADC calls emergency meeting over disputed DR Congo election (Aljazeera) WEST AFRICA Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon Insurgency - 30,000 Displaced in Lake Chad (Daily Trust) Why Lake Chad will continue to fuel terrorism (Daily Trust) Thousands flee north-east Nigeria after devastating Boko Haram attack (The Guardian) Mali Malian slaves risk lives to end centuries-old institution, see hope in Trump (Washington Post) Canadian peacekeepers in Mali challenged by geography, shifting violence (Global News) Gunmen attack villages in central Mali, kill 20 people (Seattle Times) Liberia Witnesses Fear Testifying Before War Crimes Court without Security (Front Page Africa) Residents of Speaker Chambers’ District Want Him to Agree to War Crimes Court Establishment (Front Page Africa) Bishop Cuffee Wants Citizens Welcome Economic Crimes Court (Liberian Daily Observer) EAST AFRICA Uganda 8 Uganda Security officers charged with abduction of asylum seekers (Whisper Eye) Managing Life After War: How Young People in Uganda are Coping (The Conversation) Kenya Schoolgirls in Kenya to face compulsory tests for pregnancy and FGM (The Guardian) Kenya’s new security conundrum after ousting al-Shabab (Aljazeera) At least 11 dead in Nairobi hotel complex, as evacuations continue (CNN) Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) Pastor Who Planned Massacre Of 5000 Tutsi Denied Early Release (KT Press) The schoolgirls who warned of Rwanda's genocide (The Guardian) Somalia US attacks on Somalia's al-Shabab increase under Trump (BBC News) Somalia's Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for Nairobi attack (iOL) Somalia assures UN of enhanced security after attack (Horseed Media) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Court of BiH revoked Judgment to Three Persons responsible of War Crimes (Sarajevo Times) Bosnian Court Upholds Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Acquittals (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Serb Hague Convict Faces New War Crime Trial (Balkan Insight) file:///C/Users/mulry/Documents/WCPW/Volume%2013/Issue%2025%201.21/Full%2025.html[1/23/2019 6:05:58 PM] War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 13, Issue 25 -- January 21, 2019 Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Bosnian Croat War Criminal (Balkan Insight) Croatian General to be Tried Alongside Subordinates, Court Rules (Balkan Insight) Turkey Turkey-backed rebels await 'zero hour' to attack Syria's Manbij (Reuters) Turkey deports Dutch journalist Ans Boersma over alleged links to Syrian terror group (Independent) MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Libya ‘Substantial civilian casualties’ in Derna, UN humanitarian chief ‘deeply concerned’ (UN News)/a> UN experts warn of growing influence of Sudanese armed groups in Libya (The Libya Observer) Rival Militias Clash in Libya’s Capital, Shattering Shaky Calm (Bloomberg) Iraq Car bomb blast kills two people in Iraq's Tikrit (Reuters) Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Detained Children Tortured (Human Rights Watch) As Iraq’s Shiite militias expand their reach, concerns about an ISIS revival grow (The Washington Post) Iraq closes camps for displaced, pushes families into peril (Associated Press) Syria 91 Medical, Civil Defense, and Red Crescent personnel Documented killed in Syria, and 198 Attacks on Their Related Facilities in 2018 - One Civil Defense Worker Documented Killed, and 11 Attacks on Vital Medical, Civil Defense facilities in December (Syrian Network for Human Rights) Lawyers Take Fight for Syrian Reparations to Dutch Courts (Balkan Insight) At Least 587 Attacks on Vital Civilian Facilities Documented in Syria in 2018, Including 31 Attacks in December (Syrian Network for Human Rights) Syria Rights Monitor Charges U.S. With Negligence and 'War Crimes'—But Wants Troops To Stay And Fix Things (The Daily Beast) Deadly School Attack Was Unlawful: Idlib Attacks Reaffirm Need for Civilian Protection (Human Rights Watch) Syrian army shells areas held by insurgents in northwest (New Jersey Herald) Thousands of Syrians in ‘life and death’ struggle amid harsh conditions in remote desert camp, UN warns (UN News) The Annual Report of the Most Notable Violations of Human Rights in Syria in 2018: The Crushing of the Society and Dismantling of the State (Syrian Network for Human Rights) Syria attack: Blast in Manbij kills US soldiers, civilians (News.Com.Au) Yemen Yemen civil war continues unabated as world looks on (The Week) Video: Shocking Suicide Drone Attack on Military Parade Kills Several Soldiers (Newsweek) UN Special Envoy Griffiths Notes Progress In Yemeni Peace Process (UrduPoint) Israel and Palestine IDF strikes Hamas posts in Gaza after explosive flown into Israel (The Times of Israel) Five Israeli Soldiers Arrested for Allegedly Beating Detained Palestinians Out of Revenge (Haaretz) Israel Strikes Hamas Targets; Palestinian Woman Said Killed in Gaza Protests (Haaretz) file:///C/Users/mulry/Documents/WCPW/Volume%2013/Issue%2025%201.21/Full%2025.html[1/23/2019 6:05:58 PM] War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 13, Issue 25 -- January 21, 2019 Israel's Top Court Won't Rehear Case on Eviction of Palestinians in East Jerusalem (Haaretz) Palestinian Boy, 14, Dies of Bullet Wounds Sustained in Gaza Border Clashes (Haaretz) Abbas Asks for UN Protective Force Against Israel Prior to Chairing G77 (The Jerusalem Post) Gulf Region Saudi prosecutors to seek death penalties in Khashoggi murder case (CBS News) Saudi prosecutors to seek death penalties in Khashoggi murder case (CBS News) No letup in Saudi crackdown on dissent, and no pushback from Trump administration (NBC News) Pompeo Says He Pressed Saudi Leader on War and Rights Abuses (The New York Times) ASIA Afghanistan Marine deemed falsely accused of war crimes is recommended for higher retired rank (Stars and Stripes) New Afghan Defense Minister Should Face Investigation, Sanctions (Human Rights Watch) Human Rights Watch calls for sanctions against new Afghan defense minister (Reuters) Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal These Rohingya refugees actually want to return to Myanmar. The difference is they're Hindus (Los Angeles Times) US citizen of Bangladeshi origin arrested for 1971 'war crimes' (Al Jazeera) War Crimes Investigations in Burma AA Gathering Evidence of Tatmadaw’s Human Rights Abuses (The Irrawaddy) UNHCR seeks clarification from India after it deports Rohingyas to Myanmar (Business Standard) Malaysia tells Myanmar to assume responsibility for Rohingya (New Straight Times) AMERICAS North & Central America US citizen of Bangladeshi origin arrested for 1971 'war crimes' (Al Jazeera) Navy SEAL charged with war crimes to remain in the brig (Your Navy) Ex-Nazi camp guard deported by US dies in Germany (The Seattle Times) South America Former Brazilian mayor starts serving sentence 14 years after ordering murder of Paraguayan radio journalist (Knight Center) Attacks and bodyguards: The price of being a Colombian journalist (AlJazzera) Sex trafficking that starts in South America largely stays there (Reuters) Venezuela Venezuelan supreme court judge defects to US (Fox News) Latin America has never seen a crisis like Venezuela before (The Washington Post) With his country in crisis, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro begins another six-year term file:///C/Users/mulry/Documents/WCPW/Volume%2013/Issue%2025%201.21/Full%2025.html[1/23/2019 6:05:58 PM] War Crimes Prosecution Watch, Vol. 13, Issue 25 -- January 21, 2019 TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission Gambia reconciliation process to look into former leader's abuses (Al Jazeera) Fate of transitional justice bodies hangs in balance