A Guatemalan judge ruled that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt will have a second genocide trial for ordering a 1982 massacre in which 201 people were killed at the jungle village of Dos Erres.
Qaddafi’s ex-intelligence chief, wanted by the International Criminal Court for organizing mass rapes and other human rights abuses, will first be charged with immigration violations in Mauritania, where he has taken refuge.
As the Friends of Yemen meeting in Riyadh concentrates on security issues, the economic chaos of the past year of unrest and revolution, coupled with diminishing oil stocks, has created a humanitarian crisis, with 44% of the population undernourished.
An Egyptian court convicted five police officers for the death of protesters last year and sentenced each to 10 years. Nearly 200 officers have been charged in the deaths of at least 846 protesters, but acquittals have been common.
An AQAP suicide bomber killed more than 90 Yemeni troops as they practiced for a parade in the capital Sana’a, two days after a US drone strike killed two presumed AQAP operatives. Fighting in southern Yemen has killed hundreds over the past week.
As NATO chiefs in Chicago broached negotiations with the Taliban, Amnesty International convened a “Shadow Summit” where women’s groups rejected the idea—while supporting the US/NATO occupation that collaborates with fundamentalist warlords.
After a week of clashes in Tripoli between pro- and anti-Assad Sunni factions, fighting spread to Beirut when a Sunni cleric and anti-Assad opposition leader was killed by government troops at a checkpoint.
Two anti-NATO protesters in Chicago are slapped with terrorism-related charges—days after Human Rights Watch issued a report calling for an investigation into possible war crimes by NATO in last year’s air campaign in Libya.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights are demanding action following the torture-slayings of several reporters and photographers across Mexico in recent weeks.
Amid new massacres—49 mutilated bodies found on a roadside in Nuevo León, another 15 along a highway in Jalisco—Mexican federal authorities have finally detained high-ranking military officers in an investigation of cartel collaboration.
Campesinos from Honduras’ sprawling and rugged department of Olancho protested outside the national electric company in Tegucigalpa to demand cancellation of the Patuca III hydro-electic project until land rights in the area have been clarified.
Miskito Indians in Honduras burned down government offices in angry protests over a DEA helicopter raid they say killed innocent villagers in a fishing boat. The fracas comes as the Pentagon has established three new bases in Honduras.
