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Khmer Rouge's Last Surviving Leader To Serve Genocide Sentence In Cambodia
The last surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been transferred to a Cambodian state prison to serve two life sentences after losing his appeal against a genocide conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Leader Gets Life Sentence After Genocide Conviction
Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal gave its final verdict on Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
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"Butcher Of Bosnia" Personally Oversaw 1995 Srebrenica Massacre: Prosecutor
Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
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Sajjan Kumar, Convicted In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, Surrenders In Court
Sajjan Kumar, who has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has surrendered in a Delhi court today. He has been brought to the Mandoli jail in east Delhi. The former Congress leader was convicted in the killing of five members of a family in Raj Nagar and setting a gurdwara on fire on November 1, 1984 by the Del...
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Convicted War Criminal Kills Himself With Poison At UN Court
A Bosnian Croat leader convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia died after drinking poison as he was declared guilty in court.
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'Butcher Of Bosnia' Still A Hero At Home As Verdict Looms
Dusko Mladic points to the portrait on his wall of his beloved cousin Ratko, the wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, who will next week learn if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Karadzic Guilty Of Bosnia Genocide, Jailed For 40 Years
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by UN judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Radovan Karadzic Convicted Of Genocide, Sentenced To 40 Years
A UN court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges today and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead.
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Rwandan Genocide Court Shuts After 20 Years and $2 Billion
After two decades of work and 61 convictions at a cost of nearly $2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda shuts up shop amid criticism but at least with some justice served.
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Cambodia Tribunal Convicts Khmer Rouge Leaders
Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1970s terror period that left close to 2 million people dead.
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Guatemala 'Slipping Back into Impunity': Amnesty
Guatemala is in danger of "slipping back into a state of impunity" a year after it annulled the genocide conviction against former president Efrain Rios Montt, Amnesty International warned Tuesday.
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Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide
The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes on Friday and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide.Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda's former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a for...
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Khmer Rouge's Last Surviving Leader To Serve Genocide Sentence In Cambodia
The last surviving Khmer Rouge leader has been transferred to a Cambodian state prison to serve two life sentences after losing his appeal against a genocide conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Leader Gets Life Sentence After Genocide Conviction
Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal gave its final verdict on Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
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"Butcher Of Bosnia" Personally Oversaw 1995 Srebrenica Massacre: Prosecutor
Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
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Sajjan Kumar, Convicted In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, Surrenders In Court
Sajjan Kumar, who has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, has surrendered in a Delhi court today. He has been brought to the Mandoli jail in east Delhi. The former Congress leader was convicted in the killing of five members of a family in Raj Nagar and setting a gurdwara on fire on November 1, 1984 by the Del...
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Convicted War Criminal Kills Himself With Poison At UN Court
A Bosnian Croat leader convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia died after drinking poison as he was declared guilty in court.
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'Butcher Of Bosnia' Still A Hero At Home As Verdict Looms
Dusko Mladic points to the portrait on his wall of his beloved cousin Ratko, the wartime Bosnian Serb army chief, who will next week learn if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Karadzic Guilty Of Bosnia Genocide, Jailed For 40 Years
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by UN judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Radovan Karadzic Convicted Of Genocide, Sentenced To 40 Years
A UN court convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and nine other charges today and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for orchestrating Serb atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 people dead.
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Rwandan Genocide Court Shuts After 20 Years and $2 Billion
After two decades of work and 61 convictions at a cost of nearly $2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda shuts up shop amid criticism but at least with some justice served.
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Cambodia Tribunal Convicts Khmer Rouge Leaders
Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge ended, a UN-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1970s terror period that left close to 2 million people dead.
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Guatemala 'Slipping Back into Impunity': Amnesty
Guatemala is in danger of "slipping back into a state of impunity" a year after it annulled the genocide conviction against former president Efrain Rios Montt, Amnesty International warned Tuesday.
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Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide
The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes on Friday and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide.Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda's former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a for...
