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Myanmar General Must Face Trial For Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims: UN
Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent", and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law, United Nations investigators said.
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Key Genocide Suspect Transferred To Rwanda For Prosecution
Top level Rwandan genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was flown from Kinshasa to Kigali today to face trial three months after his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Dies at 83
The former "first lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime passed away today, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Former Guatemalan Despot Efrain Rios Montt Incompetent to Stand Trial: Doctors
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, charged with genocide during a brief but particularly brutal period of the country's civil war, is incompetent to stand trial, doctors said Tuesday.
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Court Adjourns Genocide Trial of Ex-Khmer Rouge Leaders Until Next Year
Cambodia's UN-backed court on Monday adjourned the genocide trial of two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders until January 2015 after lawyers for one of the defendants continued to boycott proceedings.
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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Readies Way for Genocide Case
A UN-backed tribunal on Wednesday began a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of the two senior surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, under whose rule an estimated 1.7 million people died in the late 1970s from starvation, exhaustion, disease and execution.
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Ex-Khmer Rouge minister facing war crimes trial is dead: court
Former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, who was on trial for genocide and war crimes, died in hospital on Thursday at the age of 87, a spokesman for the UN-backed court said.
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Senior Jamaat leader gets death sentence in Bangladesh's war crimes trial
A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was today sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity", including genocide and religious persecution, during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
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Mladic war crimes trial halted over 'irregularities'
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army Chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the high-profile case.
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Mladic's genocide trial under way at War Crimes Court
Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic went on trial on Wednesday at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ailing 70-year-old Mladic's appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal marks the end of a long wait for justice to...
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Myanmar General Must Face Trial For Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims: UN
Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent", and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law, United Nations investigators said.
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Key Genocide Suspect Transferred To Rwanda For Prosecution
Top level Rwandan genocide suspect Ladislas Ntaganzwa was flown from Kinshasa to Kigali today to face trial three months after his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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'First Lady' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Dies at 83
The former "first lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime passed away today, according to a UN-backed tribunal, without victims ever seeing her face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Former Guatemalan Despot Efrain Rios Montt Incompetent to Stand Trial: Doctors
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, charged with genocide during a brief but particularly brutal period of the country's civil war, is incompetent to stand trial, doctors said Tuesday.
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Court Adjourns Genocide Trial of Ex-Khmer Rouge Leaders Until Next Year
Cambodia's UN-backed court on Monday adjourned the genocide trial of two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders until January 2015 after lawyers for one of the defendants continued to boycott proceedings.
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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Readies Way for Genocide Case
A UN-backed tribunal on Wednesday began a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of the two senior surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, under whose rule an estimated 1.7 million people died in the late 1970s from starvation, exhaustion, disease and execution.
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Ex-Khmer Rouge minister facing war crimes trial is dead: court
Former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, who was on trial for genocide and war crimes, died in hospital on Thursday at the age of 87, a spokesman for the UN-backed court said.
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Senior Jamaat leader gets death sentence in Bangladesh's war crimes trial
A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was today sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity", including genocide and religious persecution, during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
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Mladic war crimes trial halted over 'irregularities'
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army Chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the high-profile case.
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Mladic's genocide trial under way at War Crimes Court
Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic went on trial on Wednesday at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ailing 70-year-old Mladic's appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal marks the end of a long wait for justice to...
