PILPG Logo Case School of Law Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Hassan FREDERICK K. COX Volume 14 - Issue 04 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER March 30, 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 Libya UN reports abuses of migrants in Libya (Jurist) Daesh militants attack Libya town, kill 1, kidnap 3 (Middle East Monitor) Boys forced to rape their sisters, women sexually assaulted until they bleed to death and men’s genitals cut off: Survivors reveal ‘unbelievable’ horrors faced by refugees in Libya (Daily Mail) CENTRAL AFRICA Central African Republic CAR Peace Deal Stakeholders to Address 'Misunderstandings' At Monday Talks - Minister (UrduPoint) Just one month in, optimism around CAR’s peace deal is fading (Mail and Guardian) Central African Republic reaches deal on new govt: African Union (Yahoo News) Central African Republic opens cabinet to more armed groups to bolster peace (Reuters) Sudan & South Sudan South Sudan peace deal doomed if disputes not settled: think-tank (Reuters) Solidarity with the Sudanese revolution! (Fourth International) After 30 Years, Sudan’s President to Step Down Amid Protests (Jerusalem Post) Sudan’s Unlawful State of Emergency (The Washington Post) Sudan, a State of Emergency (Sudan Tribune) Sexual Violence Persists in South Sudan Despite Recent Political Strides, Top United Nations Official Says while Briefing Security Council (Relief Web) 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 Boko Haram Attacks. Is Chad Losing Control of the Central African Pivot Space? (Global Research) 33 Boko Haram Terrorists Killed By Niger Forces In Lake Chad Region (Strategic Intelligence) Mali Mali government sacks senior army officers and dissolves militia after brutal massacre that left more than 130 villagers dead (South China Morning Post) Africa: Making Sure ICC Victims Get Reparations, Assistance (allAfrica) Liberia Liberia: Swiss Will Try Former Rebel Leader Alieu Kosiah for War Crimes (All Africa) Jewel & The Trial of Agnes Taylor (New Democrat) EAST AFRICA Uganda An ex-colonel in the Lord’s Resistance Army goes on trial in Uganda (The Economist) Uganda denies backing Rwandan rebels as tensions grow (The Washington Times) Kenya Launch of New Research into Preventing Violent Extremism in Kenya (Africa News) Kenya must not force refugees back to Somalia by closing Dadaab camp (Amnesty International) Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) Remembering Rwanda: small mercy from the horror of Kibeho (Lowy Institute) Rwanda honours Father Desbois for his role in fighting Genocide (The New Times) Somalia The Hidden US War in Somalia (Amnesty International) Gunmen Storm Somalia Government Building, Killing Minister and Others (The New York Times) U.S. Missteps in Somalia Benefit Our Enemies (National Review) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Village Killings Trial Opens (Balkan Insight) Bosnia Arrests Serb Ex-Soldier for Wartime Rape, Torture (Balkan Insight) Radovan Karadzic Sentenced to Life in Prison (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Convicted of Wartime Murders, Rapes (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Ex-Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in Serbian Trial (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Srebrenica Crimes (Balkan Insight) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The Appeals Chamber Of The Initernational Residual Mechanism For Criminal Tribunals Delivers Judgment In The KARADŽIĆ Case (The Hague) Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Serbian Judge Clashes with Defence Lawyer at Lovas Trial (Balkan Insight) Radovan Karadzic Sentenced to Life in Prison (Balkan Insight) Turkey US State Department says Turkey killed civilians during Afrin capture (Kurdistan 24) MIDDLE-EAST Iraq Iraq sentences Belgian man to death for belonging to Islamic State (Reuters) Iraq’s Feckless Government Is Enabling an Islamic State Revival (Bloomberg) THREE ISIS SUICIDE BOMBERS DETONATE NEAR IRAQ’S SINJAR (The Jerusalem Post) Syria Syrian Refugees Use Precedent Set in Rohingya Case to Try to Bring Government Officials Before the International Criminal Court (The Intercept) Justice remains elusive for victims of war crimes in Syria (BBC News) Damascus Accuses US and Its Allies of War Crimes in Syria (Sputnik News) British funding for Syrian war crimes investigators: International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism collects evidence of human rights violations (The National) Domestic Courts Step Up: Justice for Syria One Case at a Time (Just Security) UN Rapporteur: Western Sanctions on Syria Trigger Migration, Human Rights Abuses (Sputnik News) Yemen Saudi Airstrike Said to Hit Yemeni Hospital as War Enters Year 5 (The New York Times) Cholera, Lurking Symptom of Yemen’s War, Appears to Make Roaring Comeback (The New York Times) Special Tribunal for Lebanon Israel and Palestine Israel opens criminal probe into 11 Palestinian deaths in Gaza border protests (The Times of Israel) Israeli Army Strikes in Gaza After Rockets Target Tel Aviv in First Since 2014 War (Haaretz) UNHRC To Call For Israeli Arrests, Settlement Boycott (The Jerusalem Post) UN panel lists Israelis suspected of war crimes on Gaza border (The Times of Israel) Palestinians Report One Dead, One Critically Wounded by Israeli Army Gunfire in Bethlehem (Haaretz) 23 to 9, UN rights council adopts report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza (The Times of Israel) Gulf Region An examination of Saudi Arabia’s airstrike rules of engagement and its protection of civilians (ReliefWeb) Senate vites to end support for Saudi war in Yemen (AP News) Yemen war: Seven killed in air strike near Kitaf hospital (BBC) ASIA Afghanistan US bars entry to ICC members probing 'war crimes' in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera) War Crimes: 10 Children Killed by US Airstrike in Afghanistan. (Global Research) Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal War crimes evidence found against 9 Jamaat men (Dhaka Tribune) Appeals in Bangladesh war crime cases not heard for 3 years (New Age Bangladesh) War crimes investigators want special bench to hear appeals (bdnews24.com) War Crimes Investigations in Burma Rakhine Ethnic Army Reports Myanmar Military’s Use of Airstrikes in Offensive (Radio Free Asia) Myanmar Government Invites Ethnic Armed Groups to Peace Talks (Radio Free Asia) Myanmar military court to probe Rohingya atrocity allegations (Reuters) Seven Villagers Killed by Heavy Artillery in Myanmar’s Rakhine State (Radio Free Asia) AMERICAS North & Central America War crime investigators will be barred from entering US (Middle East Monitor) U.S. Airstrikes In Somalia May Amount To War Crimes, Says Rights Group (NPR) Guatemala amnesty would free war criminals, soldiers who held women as sex slaves (Reuters) South America Campaigning politician found murdered in western Colombia, raising alarm for upcoming elections (Colombia Reports) 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 U.S. Says Russia 'Will Pay a Price' for Heloing Venezuela, Where Missiles are Getting Ready to Fire (Newsweek) 2 Russian Military Planes Land in Venezuela, Exacerbating Political Tension (New York Times) TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC commissioners demand justice (Mail & Guardian) CIEDP’s interim report within two weeks (The Himalayan Times) Parties undecided on appointment of officials at transitional justice bodies (The Kathmandu Post) Tunisia 'truth' commission says many rights abuse cases yet to reach court (Thomson Reuters Foundation News) Tunisian president accused of complicity in torture, Beji Caid Essebsi committed crimes while serving under Habib Bourguiba, commission alleges (The Guardian) Terrorism UNHRC Votes 23-8 for Arms Embargo and War Crimes Suit Against Israel(Jerusalem Post) Edmonton judge rules Omar Khadr's war crimes sentence has expired (National Post) Piracy Gender-Based Violence Mothers in South Sudan are teaching their daughters how to survive sexual violence (The East Africa Monitor) A dark legacy: The scars of sexual violence from the Kosovo War (Politico) ‘I Am Doing This for Every Place Where Rape Is a Weapon of War.’ Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar's Rohingya (Time) Commentary and Perspectives US bars entry to ICC members