All news on the topic: War crimes

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RSF atrocities in El Fasher "a stain on the conscience of humanity"
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to seize El Fasher in North Darfur state in Sudan.
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Rights group accuses Mali army and Russia’s Africa Corps of killing civilians and staging bodies
Russia’s Africa Corps mercenaries and Mali’s army killed four civilians in the country’s north this week and left one victim’s dismembered body arranged into a swastika, according to French broadcaster RFI.
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UN probe says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist.
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Syria arrests ex-Assad officer over corruption and wartime abuses in first financial crimes case
Syria has detained a prominent former military officer accused of corruption and wartime abuses under the Assad regime, marking the first financial crimes arrest in Damascus’s widening accountability campaign.
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Mozambique women accuse soldiers and LNG workers of rape, coercion and abuse
Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.
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Israel’s destruction in southern Lebanon may leave 250,000 unable to prove home ownership
Israel’s destruction in southern Lebanon may leave up to 250,000 Lebanese unable to prove they own their homes or property.
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US-Iran peace hopes fade after Apache downing and strikes on alleged water sites
Trying to settle on a Memorandum of Understanding to end the US-Iran war has first been complicated by the Hezbollah threat to Israel.
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Rifaat al-Assad’s stolen fortune leaves Syria chasing justice after his death
Inside a stone farmhouse south-west of Paris, the walls are lined with Khaled Alkhani’s oil paintings: dark, blurred figures with closed eyes or faces hidden beneath heavy black marks. Each canvas is part of his attempt to process the violence that shattered his family in Syria four decades ago.
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US funding cuts threaten justice for Russian war crimes in Ukraine
Ukrainian war-crimes investigator Roksolana Makar navigated icy roads and the danger of drone attacks to interview a woman in the town of Izium who alleged she was tortured by Russian forces.
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"River of blood": New probe links mass killings and village destruction to Myanmar’s Rakhine war
"A ’river of blood’ was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. ’I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.’"
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SAS war crimes claims were waved away in 24 hours despite mounting evidence
An initial internal review into reports of war crimes committed by SAS soldiers in Afghanistan was dismissed in just one day, newly declassified documents have revealed.
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Calls mount for UK to monitor and investigate citizens who served in the Israeli military
Earlier this year, Declassified revealed that over 2,000 Britons served for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since October 2023.
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RSF commander filmed executing civilians in al-Fashir reportedly back in combat after secret deal
A Sudanese paramilitary commander who was detained late last year after global outrage sparked by videos showing him executing unarmed individuals in al-Fashir has been released from prison and has returned to active duty on the battlefield, nine sources informed Reuters.
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Hamas militants forced kidnapped family members to perform sexual acts on one another while in captivity
Evil Hamas sadists forced kidnapped family members to perform indescribable sexual acts on each other, a haunting two-year probe has found.
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Israeli parliament votes to establish special court for October 7 massacre suspects
Israel will establish a military tribunal to try hundreds of Palestinian militants who took part in the October 7 attack on the country.
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Hague tribunal asked to consider early release of war criminal Ratko Mladic on medical grounds
Lawyers representing convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision from a UN court regarding their request to release him from jail in The Hague on the grounds that he is nearing the end of his life.
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French prosecutors receive war crimes complaint over FedEx-linked F-35 parts shipments to Israel
On April 20, the French Jewish organization Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) filed a complaint against “persons unknown” with France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, the Parquet national antiterroriste (PNAT), alleging complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
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Outrage grows as UK legal chief accused of dismissing soldiers falsely blamed for Iraq war crimes
Lord Hermer unleashed a bitter attack on British soldiers after his war crimes case against them was revealed to be false.
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Mercenary drone network blamed for aiding RSF in one of Sudan war’s worst episodes
A network of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enabling it to capture the western city of el-Fasher last year, a new report says.
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Victoria Cross hero arrested at airport over murder charges linked to Afghanistan
Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested at Sydney airport and charged with war crimes.
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UK allows US to use British bases for defensive strikes but rejects involvement in offensive operations against Iran
The UK will not participate in offensive operations against Iran, a Cabinet minister has reaffirmed following Donald Trump’s threat to bomb the country’s civilian infrastructure.
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European and Ukrainian prosecutors announce first war crimes charges against Russia on the fourth anniversary of the invasion
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European prosecutors and Ukrainian officials announced the first criminal charges related to atrocities committed during the war, stating that cases have started moving into court after years of coordinated investigations led by Eurojust.
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Leaked chats expose Russian general Roman Demurchiev discussing torture and executions of POWs
The investigative projects Schemes and Systema published an investigation based on the archived personal correspondence of Russian military officer Roman Demurchiev.
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Wi-Fi that kills: how Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti equipment powers Russia’s war against Ukraine
While American billionaire Robert Pera, owner of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, makes money on technology and publicly speaks about “affordable connectivity,” his company Ubiquiti Inc. has in fact become one of the key communications suppliers for the Russian army.
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Libyan general wanted by ICC arrested in Tripoli on war crimes charges
A Libyan general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity has been arrested in Tripoli.