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ICTY - Tribunal Update Zagreb awarded damages to families of victims killed in detention. Croatia secretly paid 1.8 million kuna (250,000 euro) to the families of people killed in the notorious Lora prison camp in the early 1990s, confirmed officials this week. Lora, a Yugoslav-era naval base in the coastal city of Split, was taken over by Croatian forces in 1991, the start of the Croatian war of independence, as the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army, JNA, forces withdrew. From 1992 to 1997, it functioned as a prison camp for mainly Serbian, but also Bosnian and Montenegrin, civilians and prisoners of war,...

March 2009 Update on the racist Arab Muslim [Arab league backed] dictator Al Bashir's arrest warrant for genocide, crimes against humanity     Ban urges Sudan to ensure safety of UN bodies Reuters - [March, 4, 2009]UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Khartoum to cooperate with all UN entities and ensure their safety after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for Sudan's leader.http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5234A520090304   World court issues arrest warrant for Sudan's Bashir Christian Science Monitor [Mar. 4, 2009]‎http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0305/p90s01-woaf.html   Court issues war crimes warrant for Sudan's Bashir The Associated Press  [Mar. 4, 2009]‎...charges...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects on Monday, calling it a form of torture that the Obama administration could never condone. Holder's declaration underscored President Barack Obama's break with the former Bush administration's anti-terrorist policies, which were condemned by human-rights groups, civil liberties advocates and U.S. allies abroad. "Waterboarding is torture ... My Justice Department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it," Holder, who his heading a review of the treatment of terrorism suspects, said in a speech to...

When discussing war crimes during World War II, two events usually get thrown out as indictments of the Allies: dropping atomic weapons on the Japanese and the raid of Dresden, in which 25,000 people died mostly of the raging fire that swept the German city. Critics accuse the Allies of deliberately attacking a civilian population center with little military value as a payback for Nazi attacks on Britain. This perception gained a lot of credence through Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, his autobiographical tale inspired by his eyewitness experience at Dresden as a POW. Interestingly, though, Germans apparently tend to view...

Germany's war crimes prosecutor issued an impassioned warning Thursday against any further delay in bringing 88-year-old John Demjanjuk to trial for allegedly helping kill 29,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp. Kurt Schrimm, who heads Germany's national office on war crimes in Ludwigsburg, said his staff have already set out a compelling case against Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born man who now lives in the US state of Ohio. Schrimm rejected claims by local German prosecutors that the case was incomplete. Demjanjuk was acquitted in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court of charges that he was a guard at the Treblinka death...

International law expert Avi Bell talks about war crimes in Gaza

A Petition to the U.N. on Palestinian Muslims Crimes By Jamie Glazov January 16, 2009 Gabriel: Something simply had to be done to bring attention to what Hamas is doing. Hamas is a religiously driven radical Islamic organization. Westerners simply do not understand, and I believe have a hard time believing, how far radical Muslims are willing to go to accomplish their objectives. That's why so many in the West tend to dismiss the evil of Islamofascism and Islamists' depth of hatred towards the Jews and their commitment to destroy Israel at any cost -- including sacrificing their own children...

Best. Excuse. Ever.Human rights groups argued Wednesday that a detailed probe into Hamas's firing of Kassam rockets at Israeli communities is not necessary, because it constitutes such a "blatant" war crime. By contrast, Israel's actions are more complex, and therefore do require such investigation, they said... said Sarit Micha'eli of B'tselem... "It is quite clear that [Hamas is] attacking and targeting civilians... With Israel things are more complicated because Israel states it does not deliberately target civilians and that it safeguards them. With Israel, you have to investigate each specific incident because even if a civilian is killed in an...

A movement has begun among American college professors to boycott Israeli universities and professors and Israeli culture, over the “oppression” of Palestinians by Israelis. I read some of the press accounts of this academic movement, and decided to investigate its leader. David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the leader of this US effort. Anti-Semitism is commonplace in Europe, where such boycotts are old news. The background of Dr. Lloyd doesn’t look that bad on first glance. On his Biographical Sketch, there are only a few hints that the man is off-balance. Half of his...

Israel reacted furiously to a decision by a Spanish judge on Thursday to open a probe of seven former top security officials for alleged war crimes in the 2002 bombing in Gaza that killed top Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh and 14 other people. "Someone who calls the assassination of a terrorist a crime against humanity lives in an upside-down world," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. ... "Shehadeh was responsible for the murder of dozens of Israelis," Dichter told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday night. "We pursued him for a long time. The man was a terrorist responsible for dozens of...

Poll: 44% of Dems Say Bush Guily of War Crimes @ 3:49 pm by Chris Good According to a new poll from Rasmussen, 44 percent of Democrats surveyed said President Bush and his administration were guilty of "war crimes"; 28 percent of Democrats disagreed. Obama has faced calls from liberals to investigate Bush administration actions for potential criminal activity: one of the most popular reader questions posted to Obama's transition website asked whether Obama would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's use of torture and warrantless wiretapping. (Though he suggested in April 2008 that he would consider...

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas - and not Israel - was the reason ambulances could not reach victims, a Gaza ambulance driver told the Sydney Morning Herald. He said that Hamas terrorists tried to hijack an entire fleet of Al-Quds ambulances during Operation Cast Lead. Foreign media quoted Hamas officials and Gaza Arabs several times during the war that Israel blocked ambulances from reaching dying victims, but Mohammed Shriteh, a 30-year-old driver for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, told the Australian newspaper Monday that the Israel Defense Forces actually worked with the Red Crescent. "We would co-ordinate with the Israelis before we pick...

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says the nation should expect more U.S. military casualties as the Obama administration plans to send additional troops to Afghanistan. Pentagon officials say they plan to send up to 30,000 additional troops to the Afghan war, where the Taliban is resurgent and violence has been on the rise. The request for more troops from military commanders was endorsed by the Bush administration and has been favored by the Obama government, too.

President Obama will face many hard boards that would be very difficult for him to bore very far into, even if he were so inclined, which to all appearances he mostly isn't. Consider just one crucial issue among the many now facing the nation, which would require great courage and moral leadership from our new president, if anything like meaningful "change" were to take place at all. This is the matter of prosecuting members of the Bush administration who committed very serious crimes, in particular those who authorized Americans to torture prisoners in blatant violation of both American and international...

Guests Lose Their Tempers During Al-Jazeera TV Discussion on Whether Bush Is a War Criminal Following are excerpts from a TV debate about whether President Bush is a war criminal, with Dr. Abd Al-Hadi Shalouf, expatriate Libyan lawyer and ICC member and Arab Lawyers Association Deputy Secretary-General Abd Al-'Azim Al-Mughrabi. The debate aired on Al-Jazeera TV on December 24, 2008. TO VIEW THIS CLIP AND OTHERS YOU MUST LOG IN/REGISTER FOR MEMRI TV, AT http://memri.netstrategies.com/content/en/member_registr_tv.htm. REGISTRATION IS FREE OF CHARGE. To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1978.htm. Shalouf: "We Must Draw a Distinction Between Bush and the Arab Rulers... The...

The Dallas Peace Center is having a rally entitled "No War Criminals in our Neighborhood" on Mockingbird Bridge over Central Expressway at 4pm on Tuesday. We need to get some people out there to counter demonstrate.

Arab Palestinian War crimes, on their own people and on Israelis Hamas' war crimes - Los Angeles Times - 10 Jan 2009 ... Hamas' war crimes. In Gaza, it targets Israeli citizens with rockets, then shields its fighters behind Palestinian civilians. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-dershowitz10-2009jan10,0,2587090.story Hamas exploits U.S. media to cover war crimes against Israeli ... - While Hamas exploits its own civilians as human shields as it ... Hamas exploits U.S. media to cover war crimes against Israeli & Palestinian civilians ...http://iperceive.net/hamas-exploits-us-media-to-cover-war-crimes-against-israeli-palestinian-civilians/ Hamas to blame for Palestinian civilian casualties | Midwest Voices - 30 Dec 2008 ... Human Rights Watch says people...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – War crimes prosecutors accused former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on Monday of using systematic rape to terrorize civilians suspected of supporting rebels during a bloody power struggle in neighboring Central African Republic.

Hamas' use of the children and other innocents as human shields at the UN school got it desired effect yesterday. They they fired mortars on Israeli troops, the troops returned the fire, and dozens of civilians died or were injured, along with the terrorists. There is a library full of evidence proving it isn't the first time Hamas has used innocents as human shields. Hamas built armories in the basements of Mosques and schools, private homes and hospitals. They create their bunkers and weapons factories in crowded neighborhoods. All of this "construction" was done out in the public. Under the...

Listening to BBC news today, they were interviewing a spokesman from the UN regarding the Gaza conflict. The reporter was constantly pushing the spokesman for his opinion on whether the action by Israel falls within the boundaries of a 'War Crime'. The spokesman obviously dodged the issue, and was talking about hunanitarian aid, BUT, after watching these people over so long, through the conflict in Yugoslavia, ongoing conflicts in Africa, issues in China etc, without openly saying it, they are classifying Isarel in the same mould. I've scrutinised these communists for so long, I just KNOW it. It's coming. Last...