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One of the most prominent trials involved ex-Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, who was in 2002 indicted on 66 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide allegedly committed in wars in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia. His trial remained incomplete since he died in 2006, before a verdict was reached.
Published. April 2008. ( 2008-04) The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals ( Italian: La caccia: Io e i criminali di guerra) is a book written by Carla Del Ponte, published in April 2008. According to Del Ponte she received information saying about 300 Serbs were kidnapped and transferred to Albania in 1999 where their organs were extracted. [1]
This is the fifth presidential election in Kosovo since 2008, when Kosovo declared its independence. Background [ edit ] Hashim Thaçi took office as president on 7 April 2016, [1] but resigned on 5 November 2020 after the Hague-based Specialist Chambers confirmed a war crime indictment against him. [2]
During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This includes the use of indiscriminate violence and massacres against civilians, torture, sexual violence, forced deportation and population transfer, death marches, the use of ...
Amnesty International stated that both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces committed war crimes during Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and called on the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately conduct independent, impartial investigations, identify all those responsible, and bring them to justice. [1] [2] UN Secretary-General António ...
The commander, Salih Mustafa, was convicted a year ago and sentenced to 26 years’ imprisonment for the crimes committed at a KLA compound in Zllash, Kosovo, in April 1999. While dismissing all ...
The Serbian government has denied reports on war crimes. [better source needed] After this war, Kosovo was part of the Kingdom of Serbia. [better source needed] These events have greatly contributed to the growth of the Serbian-Albanian conflict. Campaign within Albanian declared territory Serbian conquest 1912–1913.
Protestor holding sign in support of women in Tigray. Sexual violence in the Tigray War included, according to the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, people forced to rape family members, "sex in exchange for basic commodities", and "increases in the demand for emergency contraception and testing for sexually transmitted infections".