PILPG Logo Case School of Law Logo War Crimes Prosecution Watch Editor-in-Chief Taylor Frank FREDERICK K. COX Volume 13 - Issue 20 INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER November 12, 2018 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 Special Criminal Court opens bringing hope to victims of brutal conflict (Relief Web) Central Africa rebels issue ultimatum to government officials (Daily Mail) France warns on Russian arms and advisers in Central African Republic (The Telegraph) France pledges weapons and financial aid for Central African Republic (The Defense Post) Central African Republic hospital saving refugees from armed groups (Devdiscourse) Fears of arms race in CAR as armed groups fight government (RFI) Sudan & South Sudan As South Sudan celebrates, UN envoy cites trust as future ‘key ingredient’ (UN News) UN pushes for prosecution of Darfur war crimes (WORLD CGTN) South Sudanese authorities release SPLM-IO’s James Dak (Sudan Tribune) EU Wants Rights Violators in South Sudan (All Africa) Democratic Republic of the Congo Adopting Resolution 2439 (2018), Security Council Condemns Attacks by Armed Groups in Democratic Republic of Congo Jeopardizing Response to Ebola Outbreak (SC/13559) (Relief Web) Atrocity Alert No. 130 (7 November 2018): Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen and Nigeria (Relief Web) Expulsion of Congolese from Angola aggravates dire crisis in Kasai (Relief Web) WEST AFRICA Lake Chad Region — Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon Food aid suspended in Lake Chad region over surge in Boko Haram attacks (PM News) At least 16 Nigeria troops missing after Boko Haram attack (News24) Mali Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attacks (Aljazeera) Liberia US, Norway Pledge to Solidify Ties with Liberia (Liberian Daily Observer) Liberians against Amnesty’ for War, New Survey on Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Shows (Front Page Africa) Human Rights’ CSOs Convene Stakeholders Confab Today (Liberian Daily Observer) EAST AFRICA Uganda What Happened to Museveni’s Peace and Sleep? (AllAfrica) Rebels Kill Seven Civilians Near DR Congo-Uganda Border (Daily Monitor) Kenya Rebels Kill Seven Civilians Near DR Congo-Uganda Border (Daily Monitor) AP Investigation: Hospital patients held hostage for cash (Hastings Tribune) Kenya’s Struggling Amnesty Experiment: The Policy Challenge of Rehabilitating Former Terrorists (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Kenyan Al Shabaab fighters used as sacrificial lambs, returnee says (The Star) Rwanda (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) Germany reopens war crimes case against Rwandan rebel leaders (Punch) Rwanda genocide trial: Can German courts prosecute? (Deutsche Welle) One Month Since Rwandan Opposition Leader ‘Disappeared’ (Human Rights Watch) Somalia ‘Stand-off’ between Somalia’s federal, state authorities could ‘paralyze’ progress – UN envoy (UN news) Spike in violence in Somalia forces 21,000 people to flee their homes (Norwegian Refugee Council) EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Bosnian Wartime Camp Guard Convicted of Prisoner Abuse (Balkan Insight) Bosnian Prosecution Urges Conviction of Naser Oric (Balkan Insight) Bosnia Arrests Serb Ex-Soldiers for Crimes Against Civilians (Balkan Insight) Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Kosovo Roma Ex-Fighter Jailed For Torturing Albanians (Balkan Insight) Serbian Court Confirms Strpci Train Massacre Indictment (Balkan Insight) Zagreb Cuts Bosnian Croat War Criminal’s Sentence (Balkan Insight) Turkey Saudis Sent Experts to Remove Evidence of Khashoggi’s Killing, Turkey Says (New York Times) Turkey Airstrikes Target Iraqi Christian Villages; Activists Call for War Crimes Investigation (Essex Caller) Khashoggi is being used as a bargaining chip in Turkey’s negotiations (Equal Times) MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Libya Human Rights Solidarity registered 859 victims of kidnap and assassinations in Libya (The Libya Observer) Fighting breaks out in Libya’s Sabratha (The Libya Observer) UN gets tougher on human traffickers in Libya (CNN) U.N. adds sexual violence as reason for sanctions in Libya (Telegraph Herald) Iraq Why do Kurds continue to flee Iraq's Kurdish region? (Al Jazeera) Provincial governor escapes bomb explosion in central Iraq (XinhuaNet) Iraq deploys up to 30,000 fighters to secure Syrian border from ISIS (ABC News) IS left 200 mass graves in Iraq – UN (BBC) Syria Human Rights Watch says US should not transfer suspected jihadists from Syria to Iraq 'if they will be at risk of torture or unfair trial' (First Post) Damascus demands international probe into US-led coalition's crimes in Syria (PressTV) Syrian human-rights group accuses Russia of targeting civilians (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette) Will Syria's war criminals ever be brought to justice? (Al Jazeera) ‘Enough evidence to convict‘ Syria‘s Assad of war crimes (Lakeland Observer) Iraq, Syria among world’s worst for journalists murdered with impunity (Rudaw) France issues arrest warrants for three senior Syrian officials (The Daily Star Lebanon) Ending use of chemical weapons in Syria: ‘still work to be done’, says UN disarmament chief (UN News) No less than 488 Cases of Arbitrary Arrest in Syria in October 2018: 63% of all Arrests Were Made by Syrian Regime Forces, most of Which Involved Individuals Who Agreed to Settlements (Syrian Network for Human Rights) Syria’s war: Assad regime accused of a host of crimes (Arab News) Yemen Saudi role in devastating Yemen war comes under new scrutiny after Khashoggi killing (Washington Post) Yemen war: US presses Saudi Arabia to agree ceasefire (BBC News) Israel and Palestine Egypt, U.N. Ask Israel to Ease Up On Hamas (The Jerusalem Post) Gaza Flare-up: Islamic Jihad Announces Cease-fire With Israel After a Night of Fighting (Haaretz) Israeli Army Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killing of Gaza Medic (Haaretz) Gulf Region Qatar supports efforts to assist in prosecution of crimes in Syria (Gulf Times) The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War (The New York Times) As Saudi-coalition expands Yemen war, UN says famine accelerating (Al Jazeera) Australian mercenaries referred to ICC (The Australian) ASIA Afghanistan Germany charges former Afghan officer with war crimes (The Washington Post) Record 435 Afghans killed or injured in legislative poll: UN (Saudi Gazette) Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Cambodian genocide trial nears final verdict (La Croix) Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal War crimes evidence found against former acting DG of NSI (The Daily Star) Bangladesh tribunal awards death sentence to two fugitive 1971 war criminals (India Today) War Crimes: ICT investigation agency finds evidence against 8 Pirojpur men (The Daily Star) War Crimes Investigations in Burma Myanmar’s ‘Genocidal Acts’ Demand UN Action (The Diplomat) UN atrocities probe seeks action against Myanmar Sufficient evidence of Rohingya persecution to put military chiefs before International Criminal Court (UCA News) Fear of Deportation Drives Some Rohingya Refugees from India (VOA News) Atrocity Alert No. 129 (31 October 2018): Myanmar (Burma), Yemen, Burundi and Sri Lanka (Relief Web) Why the ICC Investigation of Forced Displacement in Myanmar Is a Big Deal (Just Security) Myanmar government erases evidence of Rohingya 'genocide' in Rakhine State (The National) AMERICAS North & Central America How the U.S. Aids and Abets Saudi War Crimes (Socialist Worker) Second Navy SEAL Charged with war crimes (NewsRep) The siege of Hodeidah: Washington doubles down on its war crime in Yemen (World Socialist Web Site) South America Human Trafficking in Colombia Increasingly Targets Venezuelan Migrants (InSight Crime) Border ambush kills 3 soldiers (The Republic) Remains of 26 victims of Peru's Shining Path handed over (Channel News Asia) Venezuela Colombian rebels blamed for killing spree 400 miles inside Venezuela (The Guardian) Their reporting on Venezuela’s hunger led to exile. Now they’re being honored. (Miami Herald) EU extends Venezuela sanctions over democracy, rights violation (Reuters) TOPICS Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act amendment process snail-paced (The Himalayan Times) EU extends sanctions on Burundi officials (The East African) South Africa is more unequal than ever, 20 years after the post-apartheid TRC (Deutsche Welle) Liberians against Amnesty’ for War, New Survey on Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Shows (Front Page Africa) Twenty years on: Where is truth and reconciliation? (Nelson Mandela Foundation) Terrorism The law needs to catch up with the reality of domestic terrorism (CNN) Libyan National Army announces start of military trials for 'terrorist groups' (Middle East Eye) Piracy Rise in Piracy, Rise Crisis Care for Seafarers (The Maritime Executive) Dual Hijacking and Kidnapping Reported off Republic of Congo (The Maritime Executive) Ghana: Govt On Track to Address Maritime