Radovan Karadzic sanctioned the shelling of Sarajevo civilians and the massacre of Srebrenica’s Muslims, a court was told on Monday.
Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has boycotted his war-crimes trial, will appear in court on Tuesday, his legal advisers say.
Although he spurns defence lawyers, Karadzic has a team of 40 legal experts and lawyers assisting him in his trial.
Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a committee to probe a US report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers.
The office of the UN human rights chief renewed its call on Friday for a probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels
Israel’s foreign minister has urged the UN not to send the Goldstone report on Gaza war crimes to the Security Council or the General Assembly.
ICC prosecutors said on Monday Sudanese Darfur rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda deliberately ordered the killing of 12 AU peacekeepers.
A lack of accountability for war crimes committed in the Middle East has reached ”crisis point”, a UN human rights investigator said on Tuesday.
A top UN official has decried possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC.
The ICC on Thursday put on hold the conditional release of Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, who is facing trial on charges of war crimes.
Shots were fired on the home of the DRC’s foreign minister amid warnings not to testify in the war-crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba.
The chief war crimes prosecutor in Serbia expects genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to be arrested this year due to progress in the hunt.
The ICC on Friday ordered the conditional release of former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba ahead of his war-crimes trial.
Uganda has said that a visit by Sudan President Omar al-Bashir could cause a ”diplomatic incident” amid pressure to arrest him for alleged war crimes.
Foreign ministers voted not to cooperate with the indictment issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir.
An AU panel led by former SA president Thabo Mbeki on Friday backed an international court’s indictment of Sudanese officials for war crimes.
The UN human rights chief said on Friday that Islamist insurgents in Somalia had executed civilians and set off bombs in residential areas.
A UN court on Wednesday denied Radovan Karadzic’s motion to have war-crimes charges against him dropped.
