http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com The World Affairs Blog Network Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:55:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Radovan Karadzic stopped boycotting his prosecution for war crimes at The Hague this week adding legitimacy to the trial seen as "seen as key to ... closure" for the survivors and victims' families of the Balkans genocide of the 1990s.  Karadzic also asked this week for time to prepare his ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/07/a-preview-of-the-karadzic-defense/ The following is an interview with Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni.  Professor Bassiouni has held many positions with the United Nations including Chairman of the Drafting Committee for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, and Chairman of the Security Council's Commission to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/03/the-future-of-war-crimes-an-interview-with-professor-cherif-bassiouni/ Charles Taylor took the stand again this week at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and decried a vast conspiracy against him calling witness testimony against him "lies" and accusing the prosecution of racism.  Taylor made these impassioned assertions even as hundreds of civilian victims of Liberia's civil war were ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/02/charles-taylor-testifies-this-week-as-hundreds-of-his-victims-are-buried/ (UN) A high-level Rwandan rebel indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for his role in the 1994 genocide in the tiny Central African country has been handed over to the court after being arrested in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Grégoire Ndahimana, a high-level figure in the ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/22/un-helps-deliver-fugitive-rwandan-genocide-indictee-to-criminal-court/ (AP) WASHINGTON - The CIA's harsh interrogations are likely to have damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a new scientific paper. The paper scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/21/interrogations-linked-to-brain-damage/ In what has been called the most important death penalty case in US history, the government is seeking a 60 day delay in the joint trial by military commission of Guantanamo’s Ramzi bin al Shibh, who, along with four others, is facing war crimes charges resulting from his alleged involvement ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/20/government-requests-delay-in-guantanamo-commissions-already-on-hold/ Michel Bagaragaza officially plead guilty to Genocide today at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.  He had reportedly entered a plea deal last year with the prosecution ahead of his trial this month.  Bagaragaza was head of OCIR-Tea which controlled the tea industry of Rwanda and used this position to ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/17/rwandas-tea-czar-pleads-guilty-to-genocide/ A U.N. fact-finding mission to Israel and Gaza announced today that it has found evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian law committed by both Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas during the Israeli invasion of Gaza that commenced at the end of last year. “The ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/15/un-finds-evidence-of-war-crimes-in-gaza/ The Pentagon has announced it will allow those prisoners held by the US military in Afghanistan, including the Bagram military facility, to challenge their detention in a new military review system. The prisoners will be given military officials - not lawyers - to represent them and will be allowed to call ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/15/afghan-detainees-may-challenge-their-detention-but-not-in-us-courts/ Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman for the prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugosavia, was found in contempt of the tribunal Monday and fined 7,000 Euros - over $10,000 U.S. dollars.  She was found in contempt for revealing secret information implicating the Serbian government in massacres in her ... http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/14/former-icty-prosecution-spokesperson-found-in-contempt/