FREDERICK K.

COX
INTERNATIONAL LAW
CENTER

Founder/Advisor
Michael P. Scharf

WAR CRIMES
PROSECUTION
WATCH
Volume 9 - Issue 16
November 03, 2014

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Peter Beardsley
MANAGING EDITORS
Emily Gibbons
Madeline Jack
SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR
Morgan Kearse

War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents
and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the
investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please
email warcrimeswatch@pilpg.org and type "subscribe" in the subject line.
Opinions expressed in the articles herein represent the views of their authors and are not
necessarily those of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch staff, the Case Western Reserve
University School of Law or Public International Law & Policy Group.

Contents
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Central African Republic & Uganda

AllAfrica: Central African Republic: The Search for Justice

Amnesty International and AllAfrica: Central African Republic: The
Search for Justice
The Observer (Kampala) and AllAfrica: Africa: Museveni Tells Africa to
Quit ICC

Darfur, Sudan

The Guardian: Female students from Darfur arrested and beaten in Sudan,
says HRW
Sudan Tribune: Sudan initiates contact with rebel commanders in Darfur
ABC News: UN review finds Darfur mission held back info

Democratic Republic of the Congo

International Justice Monitor: Appeals Chamber Hears Arguments in

Ngudjolo Trial; Ngudjolo Claims He Is a Victim
All Africa: Central African Republic: Judge Orders Interim Release of
Bemba Lawyers
Yahoo News: Congo Ex-Militia Boss Insists on Innocence at ICC Appeal
All Africa: Congo-Kinshasa: Four Bemba Associates Get Interim Release
Hirondelle News Agency: Four Bemba Aides Freed, Ngudjolo Protests His
Innocence

Kenya

BBC News: ICC cautions Kenya on Kenyatta media leaks

UK Human Rights Blog: Kenyan President uses Tory human rights plans to
defend war crimes charges

Amnesty International: Libya: 'Rule of the gun' amid mounting war crimes
by rival militias
UN News Centre: Libya: UN rights chief condemns ongoing attacks against
rights defenders, activists
UN News Centre: Libya: UN 'deeply concerned' by reported threats against
national rights institution

Libya

EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber

Balkan Transitional Justice: UN War Crimes Court to Close in 2017

GlobalPost: Health of Serb War Crimes Suspect Deteriorates

Dalje: Ten Former Serb Paramilitaries On Trial For War Crimes In Trpinja

Southeast European Times: Karadzic Verdict Could Be Turning Point in

BiH

The Prince Author Herald: Will a Karadzic Conviction Prevent Further

Balkan Wars?

Naharnet: U.N. Court to Hear New Mass Grave Evidence in Mladic Case

MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

The Cambodia Daily: Victims Call for Money From ECCC

New York Times: Genocide Trial Begins for Khmer Rouge Leaders

The Phnom Penh Post: KRT Civil Parties Say Reparations Benefit NGOs,
Not Victims
The Cambodia Daily: Victims Stage Protest Outside Tribunal
The Cambodia Tribunal: Khmer Rouge Defense Teams a No Show at
Meeting to End Boycott
VOA Khmer: Hearings for Khmer Rouge Suspended as Defense Boycotts
The Cambodia Daily: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan Reject Proposal for New
Lawyers

Iraqi High Tribunal

AlJazeera America: UN: ISIL Assaults Against Yazidis May Be Genocide

AlJazeera America: Blackwater Guards Found Guilty Over Deaths of 14
Iraqis
Wall Street Journal: U.S. Allocates $1.6 Million for Tracking Atrocities in
Iraq
AlJazeera America: ISIL Used Chlorine Gas in Battle, Say Iraqi Officials
UN News Centre: Iraq: Condemning Destruction of Shrine, UNESCO Urges
End to 'Cultural Cleansing'

Syria

Wall Street Journal: U.S. Bid to Prosecute Syrian Officials Slows

Washington Post: What Counts as Evidence of Syria's War Crimes?
Dutch News: The Netherlands Wrestles with Syrian 'War Criminal'
Refugees

Special Tribunal for Lebanon

The Daily Star: Rifi Vows Hasan's Killers Will Be Brought to Justice
The Daily Star: Suicide Bomber Evaded Protection Measures to
Assassinate Hariri: Expert

Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal

Dhaka Tribune: Indictment Order on Siraj Kosai, 2 Others Nov 5

The Daily Star: SC On Appeals Likely Today
The Daily Star: Another Witness Accuses Jabbar
The Daily Star: Jabbar Ordered My In-Laws' Murder
The Daily Star: Shot Dead on Jabbar's Instructions
The Huffington Post: Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladesh Islamic Party
Chief, Sentenced to Death for War Crimes

War Crimes Investigations in Burma

Karen News: Armed Groups Must be Held to Account in Latest Fighting,

says Karen Human Rights Group
Karen News: Shan Human Rights Foundation: "Burmese Government
Troops Shell Civilian Area, Commit Other Human Rights Abuses in Ke See
Township."

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

United States

The Boston Globe: Four Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007

Shootings
Al Jazeera America: In Plea to Obama, Nobel Laureates Urge Torture
Reckoning
The Washington Post: Researchers Identify Sophisticated Chinese
Cyberespionage Group
The Washington Post: For Turkey and U.S., at Odds Over Syria, a 60-Year
Alliance Shows Signs of Crumbling
CNN: Supreme Court to Decide if Boy Can List 'Israel' as Passport
Birthplace
The Washington Post: Airstrikes Against the Islamic State Have Not
Affected Flow of Foreign Fighters to Syria

South & Central America

BBC: Argentina Sentences 15 to Life Over La Cacha Prison

BBC: Chile Arrests Ex-Pinochet Aide Col Labbe Over Killings
Yahoo News: Colombian Rebel Jailed for 27 Years over US Hostage Case
Los Angeles Times: Mexico Focuses on New Mass Grave in Students'
Disappearance
BBC: Peru Dirty War Bodies Returned to Relatives
Fox News Latino: Veneuzela Holds 10 for Lawmaker's Murder

TOPICS
Terrorism

The New York Times: British Police Arrest Woman Suspected of Planning
Terrorism
The Guardian: Terror Suspect "Had Good Excuse" for Having Bomb
Manual, Court Hears
The Washington Post: Russian Fighter Suspected of Terrorism and held in
Afghanistan to be Prosecuted in U.S.

Piracy

IndiaSpend: The Indian Ocean's $18-Billion Piracy Stakes

Khaleej Times: International Efforts Reduced Piracy Attacks to Zero, says
Abdullah
Garowe Online: Somalia: UN Report Accuses Puntland's President of
Weak Anti-Terrorism Policy, Piracy Links
All Africa: Nigeria: Oil Theft, Vandalism and Piracy - Navy's Surveillance
Sensors, Battle-Ships to the Rescue
ABC News: Nigeria: German Killed, Pirates Hijack Gunboat

Gender-Based Violence

International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics: UK Government

Introduces New FGM Laws
The Express Tribune: Violence Against Women: Husband Takes Axe To 20Year-Old Wife's Leg
BBC: Iran's Hanging of Reyhaneh Jabbari Condemned

EyeSriLanka: Witness's Accounts on Sri Lanka Asylum Seekers

Middle East Eye: Closure of Holot Brings Shaky Relief for Asylum Seekers

Asylum

REPORTS
UN Reports

Premium Times: $9.3 Arms Deal: Group Drags Nigerian Govt. to

International Criminal Court
3News: Judge Urges Prosecution of North Korea's War Crimes
Washington Post: What Counts as Evidence of Syria's War Crimes?
Naharnet Newsdesk: U.N. Rights Expert Urges War Crimes Charges
against N. Korea

NGO Reports

Amnesty International: Ukraine: Summary Killings During the Conflict in

Eastern Ukraine

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS

Nepal

Republica: NHRC Concerned over Overlap with TRC

eKantipur: Pathak in TRC Recommendation Panel

Capital News: Kenyas Truth Commissioner Alarmed by Clashes

Kenya

COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES

Just Security: Time to Give the Sleeves From Our Vest and Acknowledge
the Extraterritoriality of the Convention Against Torture
EJIL Talk!: A Few Thoughts on Hassan v. United Kingdom
EJIL Talk!: Let the Games Continue: Immunity for War Crimes before the
Italian Constitutional Court
Justice in Conflict: The ICC, Israel, and Palestine The Time Has Come
The Walrus Said To Talk of Many Things
Opinio Juris: The ICC, Continuing Crimes, and Lago Agrio
Justice in Conflict: What Counts as Evidence of Syrias War Crimes?

WORTH READING

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp.3046, August 2014: Israel's Associated Regime: Exceptionalism, Human
Rights and Alternative Legality
Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, Vol. 30, No. 79, pp.429, August 2014: Aiding and Abetting: The Responsibility of Business
Leaders Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Oxford Commentaries on International Law A Commentary on the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (OUP)
Forthcoming: The UNDRIP and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to
Existence, Cultural Integrity and Identity, and Non-Assimilation