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The finalized charges against Ntaganda were filed on 10 January 2014, and listed a total of 18 charges: five crimes against humanity and 13 war crimes. The Congolese government refused to arrest him and in 2009 Ntaganda became a general in the armed forces in the city of Goma in North Kivu province.
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. [1] Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as foreign nationals. [1] [2] Together with war crimes, genocide, and the crime of aggression ...
Novye Aldi massacre. War crimes, crimes against humanity. No prosecutions. The killings, including executions, of 60 to 82 local civilians by special police unit, OMON, and rapes of at least six women along with arson and robbery in Grozny, Chechnya . Komsomolskoye massacre. War crimes, crimes against humanity.
Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013), President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, found guilty of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Dirty War and sentenced to life in prison. Khmer Rouge regime. Nuon Chea (1926-2019), second-in-command of the Khmer Rouge, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Cambodian genocide
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the Israel Defense Forces, the military branch of the state of Israel, has been accused of committing since the founding of Israel in 1948.
The investigation concerns war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since 1 May 2003, in the context of the war in Afghanistan, by the Taliban and affiliated armed groups, war crimes by the Afghan National Security Forces, and war crimes committed in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania by United States Armed Forces and the United ...
Human Rights Watch asserted in a 2019 report that the CIA was backing death squads in Afghanistan. [3] The report alleges that CIA-supported Afghan forces committed " summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability" over the course of more than a dozen night raids that took place between 2017 and 2019.