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v. t. e. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY) [a] was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague, Netherlands .
The Vietnam Women's Union, otherwise referred to as the VWU or Hội Liên Hiệp Phụ Nữ Việt Nam in Vietnamese, is a socio-political organization that represents and defends the legal and legitimate rights and interests of Women in Vietnam. [1] Originally founded on October 20, 1930, there are currently over 13 million members belonging ...
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.
The scope of this category includes sexual violence against women, sexual and gender-based violence against women in conflict situations, domestic violence against women (including honor killings), and violence against trans women. Organizations, literature, events, books, etc for which the topic of gender-based violence against women is ...
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. The fighting also involved the North ...
Italo-Turkish War. In 1911, Italy went to war with the Ottoman Empire and invaded Ottoman Tripolitania.One of the most notorious incidents during this conflict was the October Tripoli massacre, wherein an estimated 4,000 inhabitants of the Mechiya oasis were killed as retribution for the execution and mutilation of Italian captives taken in an ambush at nearby Sciara Sciat.
First Indochina War; Part of the Indochina Wars, the Cold War, and the decolonization of Asia: Clockwise from the top: After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos; French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950; M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam; Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954; A ...
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Vietnam War crimes by anti-communist forces (3 C, 1 P) Vietnam War crimes by communist forces (2 C, 2 P)