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The Union government ordered social media platforms to remove all posts showing the viral video. [176] Seven arrests were made in the case, all of them after the viral video surfaced. [177] The Supreme Court responded within hours after the circulation of the video, warning that the court will intervene if the government fails to act. [178]
On June 17, 2008, all charges against Chessani were dismissed by the military judge citing unlawful command influence. [58] The Marine Corps appealed that ruling in 2008. [59] [failed verification] On March 17, 2009, a military appeals court upheld the dismissal of the war crimes charges against Chessani. [60]
The Islamic State (IS) has employed sexual violence against women and men in a terroristic [1] manner. Sexual violence, as defined by The World Health Organization includes “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic, or otherwise directed, against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their ...
The International Military Tribunal agreed with the prosecution that aggression was the gravest charge against the accused, stating in its judgment that because "war is essentially an evil thing", "to initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war ...
During the Philippine–American War (1899–1913), numerous war crimes were committed by the U.S. military against Filipino civilians. American soldiers and other witnesses sent letters home which described some of these atrocities; for example, In 1902, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger wrote:
The Tamil Tigers had been waging a full-scale war for an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the North and East of Sri Lanka since 1983. After the failure of the Norwegian mediated peace process in 2006 the Sri Lankan military launched offensives aimed at recapturing territory controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
During the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, dozens of Israeli women, girls, and men were reportedly subject to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault by Hamas or other Gazan militants. [1] The militants involved in the attack are accused of having committed acts of gender-based violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [ab] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War, in 1973. [130]