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With the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre approaching, NATO Wednesday and Thursday intensified its search for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic with raids by US troops on the homes of his family members...

An appeals court for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday set aside the life sentence of Juvenal Kajelijeli , convicted in 2003 of genocide and incitement to commit genocide, and converted it to 45 years with...

Government officials along with survivors paid respects Friday to the victims of the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" during the annual "Day of Anger." Last month the United Nations announced its support for genocide tribunals in Cambodia [press...

Former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza saw his appeal before the appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dismissed Friday and his prison sentence extended from 25 to 35 years. Semanza, once mayor of Bicumbi...

Rwandan Defense Minister General Marcel Gatsinzi apologized Thursday before a Gacaca court for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . Minister Gatsinzi is the first high-ranking official to request a pardon for his role in...

The trial of two Rwandan men accused of war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins Monday in Brussels. Half-brothers Etienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashyikirwa are accused of helping the Hutu militia and are charged under Belgium's...

Former Bosnia Serb General Vinko Pandurevic pleaded not guilty Tuesday to war crimes charges linked to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of over 7,000 Muslim males. Pandurevic was indicted five years ago on...

The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced Mika Muhimana, who was a councilor in the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, to prison for the rest of his life for his...

Armenians around the world have been remembering the massacre of their people ninety years ago by the Ottoman Empire . Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the Armenian city of Yerevan Sunday to pay...

The UN Commission on Human Rights ended its 61st and possibly last session Friday in the wake of UN Secretary Kofi Annan's announced plans to radically overhaul the 53-member body. Annan and others in the international community...