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Goran Hadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Хаџић, pronounced [ɡǒran xǎdʒiːtɕ]; 7 September 1958 – 12 July 2016) was a Croatian Serb politician and President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, [4] during the Croatian War of Independence.
But the video and accompanying audio make clear that the soldiers in the helicopter said they spotted 'weapons' among those in the group—later identified by an internal army investigator as an AK-47 and an RPG." [49] Assange later said "Based upon visual evidence, I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means ...
5 years (Pleaded guilty to murder as a violation of the laws or customs of war) 5 March 1998 Early release on 13 August 1999. IT-96-22: Galić, Stanislav : Republika Srpska: Sentenced by ICTY Life imprisonment. 30 November 2006 Serving the sentence in Germany. [6] IT-98-29: Hadžihasanović, Enver: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sentenced ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
The war has left Syria’s once-fertile farmlands in a state of extreme drought. “Assad regime’s apathy towards its people changed [the country] into a barren desert,” Khaloud said.
Four Russian men accused of torturing an American during the invasion of Ukraine have been charged with war crimes in a first-of-its-kind case, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. It is ...