Europe
Kosovo lawmakers vote to create war crimes court
Lawmakers in Kosova voted 89-22 to create an EU-backed court that will investigate crimes committed by ethnic Albanian rebels during the 1998 war with Serbia.
Tag: genocide
Central America
El Salvador: US judge rules against SOA grad
A former Salvadoran defense minister was given awards by the US in the 1980s, but now a US immigration judge finds that the general's war crimes make him deportable.
Africa
South Sudan rebels engaged in ethnic killings: UN
The UN Mission in South Sudan charged that rebels engaged in ethnically targeted killings during a raid on the northern city of Bentiu in a drive to seize local oil fields.
Europe
Ukraine and anti-Semitism: house of mirrors redux
Leaflets distributed in the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, now under occupation by pro-Russian separatists, order Jews to register with the authorities. Real or provocation?
The Amazon
Police close ‘militia’ following Guarani murders
Brazilian police closed down a notorious security firm contracted by ranchers that is accused of killing at least two Guarani leaders, and brutally attacking hundreds more.
South Asia
Sri Lanka: no cooperation with war crimes inquiry
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry announced that it will not cooperate with a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.
Southern Cone
Paraguay: indigenous Aché people charge genocide
The Aché indigenous people of Paraguay brought suit in an Argentine court demanding reparations for "genocide" carried out under the late Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Greater Middle East
Rights group: more than 150,000 dead in Syria war
The death toll in the three-year Syrian conflict has exceeded 150,000, according to a new count by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Greater Middle East
Syria: jihadis target Armenians
Some 2,000 Armenians from the town of Kessab in northern Syria have taken refuge in the port city of Latakia following the occupation of their town by jihadist forces.
Europe
Tatars flee Crimea, fearing persecution
Russia's annexation of Crimea has sent nearly a thousand of the region's ethnic Tatars fleeing the peninsula for western Ukraine, faced with threats by local authorities.
Europe
Crimean Tatars at issue in Ukraine crisis
With pro-Russian gunmen occupying Crimea's parliament and Moscow threatening intervention, the Tatars have emerged as a dissident voice opposing union with Russia.
South Asia
Sri Lanka opposition demand war crimes probe
The main opposition party in Sri Lanka is demanding the government conduct an investigation into alleged crimes carried out in the long war against the Tamil Tigers.