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The list of people who have been indicted in the International Criminal Court includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression, or contempt of court in the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to the Rome Statute. An individual is indicted when a Pre-Trial Chamber issues either an arrest warrant or a summons after ...
Kony has long been one of Africa's most notorious and most wanted militant warlords. He has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sex slaves. Approximately 66,000 children became soldiers, and 2 million people were displaced internally from 1986 to 2009 by his forces. Kony was indicted in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
Security forces and armed groups are committing war crimes against civilians in Africa's Sahel region, where extremists and rebels are increasingly fighting to exert dominance and control ...
On 16 January 2022, shortly before noon, heavily armed Wagner Group mercenaries left Bria towards N'dele and arrived in the village of Aïgbado, situated 75 kilometres from Bria. Upon their arrival, the local population started panicking. The mercenaries started shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. They also burned a dozen homes. Rebels from Union for Peace in the Central African Republic ...
War crimes during the Sudanese civil war (2023–present) Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo. Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The civil war in Sudan, which started on 15 April 2023, has seen a widespread of war crimes committed by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF ...
^ a b c TS Engelschin 'Prosecutions of war crimes and violations of human rights in Ethiopia' (1994) 8 Yearbook of African Law 43.
Slavery in historical Africa was practised in many different forms: Debt slavery, enslavement of war captives, military slavery, slavery for prostitution, and enslavement of criminals were all practised in various parts of Africa. [5] Slavery for domestic and court purposes was widespread throughout Africa.