UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a statement Tuesday that 5,000 Rwandan refugees who fled to the Songore camp in Burundi to escape the 1994 genocide had been involuntarily returned to Rwanda on Sunday and Monday....
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Rwandan refugees declared illegal immigrants by Burundi; UN concerned
Some 8,000 refugees from Rwanda face deportation Tuesday after neighboring Burundi declared them illegal immigrants over the weekend. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has urged Burundi to reconsider and warned it might be violating international...
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has pledged $11 million to fill a funding gap for a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, according to Cambodian government sources. Machimura met with Cambodian Foreign...
International brief ~ ICC prosecutor says Sudan must comply with Darfur probe
Leading Friday's international brief, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said the the Khartoum government in Sudan has no choice but cooperate with the recently opened investigation by the International Criminal Court into...
Rwandan officials announced Friday they will not pursue criminal charges against fugitive Hutu rebels that were aged 14 or younger at the time of Rwanda's 1994 genocide . Children as young as 10 years old took part in...
US to resume aid to Serbia as more steps taken to capture war criminals
US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Thursday that the US would release $10 million in economic aid to Serbia that had earlier been frozen due to Washington's unhappiness with Serbia's apparent unwillingness to cooperate with the...
Former Rwandan minister put on trial for genocide in absentia
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda put former Rwanda education minister Andre Rwamakuba on trial Thursday despite his refusal to attend the proceedings . Rwamakuba is accused of making lists...
Milosevic denies control over paramilitary unit shown killing Bosnians in video
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic denied at his trial on Wednesday that he was in charge of the unit shown killing six Bosnian Muslim youths in a gruesome video that led to the arrest...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that an International Criminal Court finding of genocide in Sudan could change negative American attitudes towards the new Hague tribunal... Genocide may yet be found to have occurred...
Cambodian PM opposes private funds for Khmer Rouge genocide trial
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , a former Khmer Rouge soldier, responded to an opposition proposal Wednesday by saying that the families of the 1.7 million victims of the hardline communist Khmer Rouge regime that ruled...