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War crimes in Afghanistan. War crimes in Afghanistan covers the period of conflict from 1979 to the present. Starting with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, 40 years of civil war in various forms has wracked Afghanistan. War crimes have been committed by all sides. Since the Taliban 's emergence in the 1990s, its crimes include ...
Hive ( Albanian: Zgjoi) is a 2021 Kosovan drama film written and directed by Blerta Basholli in her directorial debut. The film stars Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi and Aurita Agushi. [2] It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021 and became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards – the Grand Jury ...
Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) ( Serbian: Fond za Humanitarno pravo, Albanian: Fondi për të Drejtën Humanitare) is the Serbian non-governmental organisation with offices in Belgrade, Serbia, and Pristina, Kosovo. [1] It was founded in 1992 by Nataša Kandić to document human rights violations across the former Yugoslavia in armed conflicts ...
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. [1] [11] [12] It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidi people, who are non- Arabs, are indigenous to Kurdistan and adhere to Yazidism, which is an Iranian religion derived from the Indo-Iranian ...
Crime Minister, one of the leading movements in the protests. A series of protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, colloquially referred to as the Balfour Protests (Hebrew: מחאת בלפור) or Black Flag Protests (Hebrew: מחאת הדגלים השחורים), gained prominence in Israel throughout 2020 and 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing trial of ...
The Chechen–Russian conflict ( Russian: Чеченский конфликт, romanized : Chechensky konflikt; Chechen: Нохчийн-Оьрсийн дов, romanized: Noxçiyn-Örsiyn dov) was the centuries-long ethnic and political conflict, often armed, between the Russian, Soviet and Imperial Russian governments and various Chechen forces.
2020 in U.S. states and territories. The following is a list of notable events, births and deaths from 2020 in the United States . The US was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which by the end of the year killed over 300,000 people within American borders.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent ...