Friday, February 24, 2012

United States / El Salvador

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Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova. (Marta Lavandier/Associated Press) Salvadoran May Face Deportation for Murders By Julia Preston The New...

Canada / Genocides of Indigenous Peoples

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"The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada." Residential Schools Calle...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Japan / China / Nanjing Massacre

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Chinese City Severs Ties After Japanese Mayor Denies Massacre By Martin Fackler The New York Times, February 22, 2012 "The Chinese c...

Violence against Christians

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"At least 24 Coptic Christians were killed in Cairo during clashes with the Egyptian Army on Oct. 9." (Thomas Hartwell /Redux) ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Italy / Germany / Nazism

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Italian Push for Atrocity Justice By Martin Daly The Sydney Morning Herald, February 16, 2012 "Italian military prosecutors want to ...

Israel / Jewish Holocaust / Genocide Education

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"Seminar participants at Yad Vashem, whose international teaching branch produces materials in more than 20 languages." (Rina Ca...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Syria: The Naive, Idealistic Approach of a Spectator

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Guest blog by Diana Oncioiu In 2007 the International Criminal Justice accused Serbia of violating the UN Genocide Convention; according to...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Syria / United Nations / International Criminal Court

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States Must "Act Now" to Protect Syrian Population, Pillay Tells General Assembly United Nations High Commissioner for Human Righ...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Syria / United Nations / International Criminal Court

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"A view from inside a cell of the Detention Unit of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Hague, in...

Spain / Universal Jurisdiction

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"Judge Baltasar Garzon, foreground, arrives for the last day of his trial at the Supreme Court in Madrid on Wednesday. Banners held b...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Guatemala / Forcible Disappearances

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"Alejandra Garcia hopes the discovery of the archive of 80 million pages of police records will lead to the successful prosecution of...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Syria / The Responsibility to Protect

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"A still from a video filmed in Homs shows bodies wrapped in white sheets outside a hospital in the Bab al-Amr neighbourhood." (...

Stuff Russia and China. Intervene in Syria Now.

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"A wounded girl sits beside her mother in the Baba Amro neighbourhood of Homs as Syrian government troops shelled the city for a four...
Sunday, February 05, 2012

Turkey / France / Genocide Denial / Raphael Lemkin

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Genocide Denial Bans: What Would Raphael Lemkin Do? By Douglas S. Irvin France 24 Blogs, February 3, 2012 "The French Senate's r...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Germany / Italy / Nazism / Restitution Claims

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"A sceengrab from the International Court of Justice website." Courts "Cannot Sue" in Nazi Cases Reuters dispatch in...

Libya / Torture

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Petition Letter Dear Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the Libya Transitional Government, The atrocities running rampant within your coun...

Iran / Israel

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"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has labelled Israel a 'cancer'." (AP) Iran: We Will Help "Cut Out the Cancer of Israel...

Cambodia / Genocide Tribunals

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"Former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch sits in a dock during his appeal hearing at the Court Room of the Ext...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Nazism / Stalinism / "Bloodlands"

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(Gianpaolo Pagni) "The Suffering Olympics" By Roger Cohen The New York Times, January 30, 2012 "The 'double genocid...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Spain / Fascism

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"Maria Martin recalled how her mother was one of three women and 27 men shot dead." (EPA) Franco Victims' Relatives Reliv...