The human cost of Syria’s 33 months of bloody civil war is estimated to have reached 126,000, with vicious abuses being perpetrated by both sides.
Almost two decades after the end of the war in Bosnia, a few courageous souls are battling against denial to remember the victims of war crimes. Armed conflict may have ceased with the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, but the fight for a Bosnia free of discrimination, segregation, and war crimes denial continues.
It is a common misconception that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is able to intervene in Syria and prosecute either side of the conflict for crimes against humanity. This article outlines why the ICC is not able to intervene right now and hold either side accountable for the Syrian conflict.
Chemical weapons are a “red line” in the conflict in Syria, but with a UN investigator claiming they were used by rebels and then her UN Inquiry making clear there is no such “conclusive findings”, has the line been crossed?
The UK police has used universal jurisdiction law to arrest Nepalese army colonel Kumar Lama in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The colonel has been accused of torturing during the decade-long (1996-2006) civil war in Nepal.