World news about “War crimes” published by euronews.
‘Most wanted’ WWII criminal charged aged 98A 98-year-old man has been charged in Hungary with war crimes committed while he served as a Nazi officer nearly 70 years ago. Laszlo Csatary was named last… 18/06/2013
Rosenberg diaries may shed new light on history of Nazi GermanyHistory’s account of the Third Reich and the extermination of millions of Jews in the Holocaust may have to undergo some late revisions upon the surfacing in… 13/06/2013
Israel PM opens Holocaust exhibition at Auschwitz Remembering the past Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opened a Holocaust exhibition at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland. Just a few hours… 13/06/2013
Six former Bosnian Croat leaders are jailed for ethnic cleansing Former Bosnian Croat leader Jadranko Prlic is one of six to have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms by a UN tribunal in The Hague for war crimes. The… 29/05/2013
War crime arrests in Kosovo prompt mass protests Crowds of ethnic Albanians have taken to the streets of Pristina. They are angry that the EU law mission, known as EULEX, has arrested five former … 27/05/2013
Ex-Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal marks 20 years of business This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the UN special war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court in the Hague has indicted… 25/05/2013
Syria on chemical hair trigger “Has Syria overstepped the red line? Have chemical weapons been used against rebels? And does this require an armed intervention by the US?” asks Damien in… 10/05/2013
Dutch man to pay Iraqi chemical attack vicitims A Dutch businessman has been ordered to pay compensation to victims of chemical weapons attacks in Iraq. A court in the Netherlands found Hans van Anraat… 24/04/2013
Schaeuble: Greek WWII reparation report ‘irresponsible’Less than a week after a top-secret document was leaked that suggested billions are owed by Germany to Greece in war reparations, Berlin has rejected the… 11/04/2013
Dodik angers Bosnia war victims by defending Karadzic The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has angered Bosnian war victims during his appearance as a defence witness in the genocide trial of former… 10/04/2013
Bosnian Serb commander handed a 45 year jail term The Bosnian War Crimes Court has sentenced a former Serb paramilitary commander to 45 years in prison. Vesslin Vlahovic was found guilty on more than 60… 29/03/2013
‘The Terminator’ proclaims innocence at first ICC hearing Bosco Ntaganda, a Rwandan-born warlord nick-named “the Terminator”, said he is innocent of the charges brought against him at the International Criminal Court… 26/03/2013
DR Congo war crimes suspect hands himself in Washington says a war crimes suspect from the Democratic Republic of Congo has handed himself over to the US embassy in Kigali. Officials say General Bosco… 19/03/2013
Bangladesh: deadly clashes over war crimes sentence – nocomment A special tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced an Islamic party leader to death for crimes committed during the nation’s 1971 war for independence. The… 01/03/2013
Cambodian woman devotes life to healing war scars Euronews went to Battambang province to meet Davy Tith. This former teacher and translator has devoted most of her life to the victims of Pol Pot’s… 10/10/2012
Former Khmer Rouge soldier faces up to past Welcome to Kampong Thom, cradle of Pol Pot, the infamous Khmer Rouge leader. We are here to meet Chin Meth, on her journey through history. Enrolled by… 03/10/2012
Zdravko Tolimir, active participant in ethnic cleansing When he was arrested in 2007, Zdravko Tolimir was considered the third most-wanted indictee of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia… 22/08/2012
ICC sentences Lubanga for warcrimes The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Congolese former warlord Thomas Lubanga to 14 years in prison, for conscripting children. He was found… 10/07/2012
Luis Moreno Ocampo: being a prosecutor was a great privilege Luis Moreno Ocampo was the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for nine years. The ICC is the first permanent court ever created to try war… 15/06/2012
‘Women a force that can change the world’ Ituri is a region in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Noella risks her life to help women who have endured all sorts of traumas as a… 05/05/2012
Liberia’s Taylor, chains of guilt The crimes for which Charles Taylor has been convicted, although committed by rebel forces in Sierra Leone, came back to him. Grave breaches of the Geneva… 26/04/2012
Mladic removed from war crimes court – nocomment Ratko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The chief judge… 04/07/2011
Serbia after Mladic arrest In the space of a week, Serbian President (since 2004) Boris Tadic announced the arrest of Europe’s most wanted war crimes indictee, former Bosnian Serb… 03/06/2011
Thousands rally in Bosnia supporting Ratko Mladic – nocomment Thousands gathered in Banja Luka on Tuesday for a massive support rally for Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader arrested over genocide and war… 31/05/2011
Ratko Mladic arrested – nocomment Mladic was captured after Serbian security forces raided a relative’s house in the village of Lazarevo, about 80 kilometres north of the capital, Belgrade… 27/05/2011
Mladic: A Chief prosecutor’s perspective Euronews spoke to Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Frederic Bouchard, Euronews: During a… 26/05/2011
Digging up the truth in Kosovo The field of grief – that is what they call the biggest Albanian cemetery of civilian victims from the Kosovo war. But more than 10 years on, the focus is… 10/02/2011
UN faces legal action over Srebrenica massacre This is the former UN Dutch compound near Srebrenica It’s here on the 11th of July 1995 that this so-called UN safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb Forces. And… 09/07/2010
Congolese warlord acquitted of brutal massacreFormer Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui has been acquitted by the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the… 18/12/2012
Serbs angered by another UN war crimes acquittalThe mood in Belgrade is indignant following the acquittal yesterday in the UN War Crimes Tribunal of former Muslim guerilla leader Ramush Haradinaj, accused… 30/11/2012
Hague appeal court clears jailed Croatian officersIt was just a taste of what life could now be like for two Croatian generals freed on appeal after being jailed for war crimes. Celebrations began early and… 16/11/2012
Croatia/Serbia: Gotovina returns home after war crimes acquittalGeneral Ante Gotovina, the most senior Croatian officer convicted of war crimes during the Balkan Wars, is back on home soil after being freed by a UN appeals… 16/11/2012
Croatia/Serbia: Gotovina ruling ‘opens old wounds’The acquittals of General Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac for war crimes by a UN appeals court were greeted with jubilation in the streets of the Croatian… 16/11/2012
Gotovina acquitted of war crimesA UN appeals court has overturned the conviction of the most senior Croatian military officer charged with war crimes during the Balkan conflicts. General… 16/11/2012
Croations in show of support for Gotovina over war crimes appealThousands of Croatians have held vigils and attended masses in support of two generals on the eve of their appeals against war crimes convictions. A rally… 16/11/2012
UN warns of possible ‘war crimes’ by Syria rebelsThe United Nations has warned that an unverified video which appears to show Syrian rebels killing captured regime soldiers could constitute a war… 02/11/2012
Perisic due to launch appeal at the HagueThe first official from Belgrade to be convicted of war crimes in Bosnia will begin an appeal against his sentence on Tuesday. Former Yugoslav army chief… 30/10/2012
Hague to judge post-Revolution killings in IranA tribunal on Iran’s mass execution of an estimated 20,000 political prisoners after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution is due to end today in The Hague… 27/10/2012
Libya rulers ‘failed to investigate Gaddafi’s death’An investigation into Muammar Gaddafi’s violent death last year has challenged the version of events given by Libya’s new rulers. Human Rights Watch… 17/10/2012
Karadzic tells war crimes trial he promoted Balkans peaceThe former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has told his trial in the Hague that far from being accused of war crimes, he should be praised for promoting… 16/10/2012
Hungary detains 1956 war crimes suspectHungary has detained a former Communist Party official for his role in the suppression of the 1956 anti-soviet uprising. Ninety-year-old Bela Biszku is… 11/09/2012
Hague prosecutors call for life term for Srebrenica suspectProsecutors have called for a life sentence to be handed down to former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, on trial in the Hague for war crimes. He is… 22/08/2012
UN accuses Syrian forces and rebels of war crimesUnited Nations human rights investigators say widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by Syrian government troops. In a… 15/08/2012
Bosnian boy killed by wartime landmineIn Bosnia, they have buried a six year old boy, a 21st century victim of a war that ended 17 years ago. Tarik Bijelic was killed by an anti-personnel mine… 11/08/2012
Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in HungaryHungarian prosecutors say they have taken Nazi criminal Laszlo Csatary into custody. The 97-year-old had been living openly in an apartment in… 18/07/2012
Srebrenica prepares for painful memorialPeople have begun arriving in Srebrenica, Bosnia, including some 7000 who came on a symbolic march in memory of the townspeople’s attempted escape from the… 11/07/2012
Karadzic acquitted of one count of genocideRadovan Karadzic, the former leader of the Bosnian Serb government has been acquitted of one count of genocide. Judges in the Hague ruled there was not… 28/06/2012
Serbian court jails ex Yugoslav army soldiers over civilian killingsA Serbian war crimes court has jailed 14 former Yugoslav Army soldiers for the killing of Croat civilians in 1991. The men were found responsible for the… 26/06/2012
UN observers blocked from Syria ‘massacre’ siteUN observers say they have been blocked from entering the Syrian village of Mazraat al Qabbeer, scene of an apparent massacre of 78 people including women and… 07/06/2012
Sierra Leone watches Taylor’s day of judgementThe sentencing of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years imprisonment for war crimes was watched by hundreds back in Sierra Leone. The… 31/05/2012
Liberia’s Taylor jailed for 50 years for war crimesA UN-backed court sentenced former Liberian leader Charles Taylor on Wednesday to 50 years in jail for war crimes. The Special Court for Sierra Leone found… 30/05/2012
Liberia’s Charles Taylor gets 50-year sentenceFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been given a sentence of 50 years by judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the Hague. Taylor is the… 30/05/2012
War criminal Charles Taylor faces sentencingVictims of Sierra Leone’s civil war await news from The Hague today where convicted war criminal Charles Taylor is to receive his sentence. Sento Thoronka… 30/05/2012
Mladic makes defiant gestures at war crimes trialFormer military commander Radko Mladic appeared defiant at the start of his trial for war crimes at the Hague. The Bosnian Serb general, who is accused of… 17/05/2012
Trial of Bosnian Serb General Mladic opens in The HagueIn the Hague the trial of the last of the main protagonists in the Balkan wars of the 1990s has opened. Ratko Mladic, the former Serb army commander is… 16/05/2012
Mladic war crimes trial opens in The HagueThe trial of the man dubbed the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ begins in The Hague today. Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic will face his accusers at the… 16/05/2012
Croatian generals appeal against war crimes convictionsFormer Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac have begun their appeal against their 2011 war crimes convictions. Appearing before the… 15/05/2012
UN teams tour restive Syrian citiesUN observers on Sunday toured restive towns around the Syrian capital, Damascus, as part of their mission to observe the government’s commitment to a… 06/05/2012
Bosnian Muslim woman found guilty of war crimesRasema Handanovic has become the first Muslim woman convicted of war crimes during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. After being… 30/04/2012
Charles Taylor convicted of Sierra Leone war crimesA United Nations-backed court in The Hague has convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes. The 64-year-old was found guilty of “aiding… 26/04/2012
Liberia’s Charles Taylor guilty of aiding war crimesFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes by an international court in the Hague. The court ruled that Taylor had aided… 26/04/2012
Former Liberian president Taylor guilty of Sierra Leone war crimesFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by an international court in the Hague. Taylor was… 26/04/2012
Verdict due in trial of former Liberian presidentA UN war crimes court is expected to deliver its verdict today, in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor. He is facing 11 charges over his… 26/04/2012
Congolese warlord found guilty in ICC’s first rulingCongolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo has been found guilty of war crimes at the International Criminal Court. It is the Hague tribunal’s first ruling since… 14/03/2012
Viral Kony video praised and criticised in UgandaThe hugely successful video made by the advocacy group Invisible Children on the atrocities carried out in Uganda by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance… 10/03/2012
No jail for marine in Haditha massacre caseA US marine accused of leading a massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians has been spared jail by a military judge. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich was one of eight… 25/01/2012
Life for US army thrill-killerAn American soldier behind a spate of thrill-killings in Afghanistan has been sentenced to life in prison. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs admitted at the… 11/11/2011
US soldier convicted of Afghan atrocitiesA US army sergeant, Calvin Gibbs, faces a maximum life sentence, after being convicted by court-martial of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers off… 11/11/2011
Serb nationalist Seselj jailed for contempt of courtThe jailed Serbian nationalist, Vojislav Seselj has been convicted of contempt of court by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. He was sent down for 18 months… 31/10/2011
‘Angel of Death’ jailed for life in ArgentinaA former Argentinian navy captain known as the Blond Angel of Death has been jailed for life in Buenos Aires for mass torture and murder during the country’s… 27/10/2011
War crimes court to probe Ivory Coast atrocitiesThe international war crimes court has confirmed it will investigate allegations of killings and rapes in Ivory Coast after disputed presidential elections… 03/10/2011
Fight intensifies in Gaddafi’s home townLibya’s interim government fighters have been bombarding the city of Sirte while NATO warplanes are reported to have carried out bombing raids on the Gaddafi… 25/09/2011
UN court jails ex-Yugoslav army chief for 27 yearsMomcilo Perisic, the ex-army chief of the former Yugoslavia, has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for war crimes. The UN tribunal in the Hague jailed… 06/09/2011
Yugoslav military chief Perisic guilty of war crimes The former Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army has been found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 27 years in prison. Momcilo Perisic had denied all… 06/09/2011
Accused war criminal dies awaiting appealFormer Hungarian army captain Sandor Kepiro has died aged 97. He was accused of taking part in WWII’s Novi Sad Massacre but fled to Argentina before returning… 03/09/2011
Croatian Serb Goran Hadzic denies war crimesThe Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic has denied charges of war crimes during the fighting in former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. He pleaded not… 24/08/2011
Rights group blames all sides in Somali crisisEnd war crimes to help tackle famine – that is plea comes from Human Rights Watch. It says all parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have violated the laws of… 15/08/2011
Hadzic refuses to enter plea in courtSerbia’s last major war crimes suspect, Goran Hadzic, refused to enter a plea when he appeared before a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the… 25/07/2011
Last fugitive set to make first appearance at the HagueFormer Croatian Serb rebel leader, Goran Hadzic is set to make his first appearance before the UN’s war crimes tribunal. The 52-year-old, the last fugitive… 25/07/2011
Last fugitive from Yugoslav conflict arrives in The HagueThe last remaining fugitive from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia has arrived in the Hague. Goran Hadzic was the wartime leader of Croatia’s Serbs and is… 22/07/2011
Serbs prepare last delivery for warcrime trialSerbia is about to transfer the last fugitive on a UN list of figures charged with war crimes to face trial in The Hague, following the arrest of Goran… 21/07/2011
Reaction to the arrest of Goran HadzicThe arrest of Goran Hadzic the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990 Yugoslav conflicts has been welcomed in many areas of Europe. He was seized about… 21/07/2011
Vukovar welcomes arrest of HadzicVukovar in 1991 was the scene of a massacre for which Goran Hadzic is being held responsible. Almost 300 men perished after Serb forces took the Vukovar… 20/07/2011
Serbs catch last big warcrime indicteeSerbia’s last remaining major war crime fugitive wanted by the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has been arrested. A former leading figure in… 20/07/2011
Serbia says war crime suspect’s arrest ‘efficient’Serbia’s president has confirmed that war crime suspect Goran Hadzic was arrested in the region of Fruske Gore. Boris Tadic also answered a journalist’s… 20/07/2011
Last major Serb warcrime suspect arrestedSerbia’s last remaining major war crimes fugitive sought by the United Nations tribunal has been arrested: Goran Hadzic. The key figure in the breakaway… 20/07/2011
Hungarian war crimes suspect clearedHungarian war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro was acquitted over World War II Nazi executions in Serbia on Monday. A Budapest Municipal Court cleared the… 18/07/2011
Ex-Croat PM to be extraditedAustria is set to extradite former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Monday to face corruption charges in his home country. Police confirmed that… 18/07/2011
Srebrenica marks massacre anniversaryHundreds of Bosnian Muslims killed during the Srebrenica Massacre 16 years ago were reburied on Monday with thousands of mourners looking on. The killing… 11/07/2011
Serb leader in Bosnia: war-crimes hunt continuesThe president of Serbia has made an official visit to neighbouring Bosnia Herzegovina and promised to hunt down the last remaining Bosnian war-crimes… 06/07/2011
Mladic court appearance watched by victims’ familiesRelatives of the victims of Srebrenica gathered outside the tribunal in the Hague. Forever scarred by the ordeal, they have waited a long time to see Ratko… 04/07/2011
Angry exchanges lead to Mladic’s removal from UN court Ratko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The chief… 04/07/2011
UN court enters not guilty plea on behalf of MladicRatko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The head judge… 04/07/2011
Mladic refuses to plead at UN war crimes tribunalFormer leader of the Bosnian-Serb army Ratko Mladic will boycott a war crimes hearing on Monday. Mladic is due to appear before the court to enter a plea to… 04/07/2011
Life sentence for Rwanda ex-women’s ministerPauline Nyiramasuhuko has been sentenced to life in prison for genocide and encouraging the rape of Tutsi women. The judgement signalled the end of a ten-year… 24/06/2011
Ex-minister gets life sentence for Rwanda genocidePauline Nyiramasuhuko, a former Rwanda women’s minister, has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the country’s 1994 genocide. The 65-year-old… 24/06/2011
Prosecutor pursues Ivory Coast war crimes investigationTop war crimes prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, wants to investigate the months of violence in the Ivory Coast. He has asked the International Criminal Court… 24/06/2011
Calls for the truth about the horrors of Sri Lankan warPressure is growing on the Sri Lankan government to fully investigate alleged war crimes committed in the final months of civil war in 2009. Horrific… 15/06/2011
Mladic slams ‘monstrous’ war crimes chargesRatko Mladic, the former head of the Bosnian Serb army, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face charges of war crimes after 16 years on the… 03/06/2011
Mixed response in ex-Yugoslavia to Mladic trialThe opening of the Mladic trial proved a powerful draw for members of all communities back in the former Yugoslavia. In the Serbian capital Belgrade, there… 03/06/2011
