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A ceremony was held on Victims of Fascism Street in the Otoka neighborhood of Sarajevo on Friday, marking the 30th anniversary of the deaths of nine people who were killed when three mortar shells were fired from positions held by the Bosnian Serb Army. Five of the dead were children; 38 other...
A Rwandan doctor who has been living in France for decades goes on trial Tuesday in Paris over his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country. Sosthene Munyemana, 68, faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and complicity in such crimes. He has denied wrongdoing. If convicted...
Kosovo’s Supreme Court has upheld the second-instance verdict sentencing former policeman Zoran Vukotic to 13 years in prison for committing rape and participating in the expulsions of ethnic Albanian civilians from the town of Vushtrri/Vucitrn during the war in May 1999. The Supreme Court’s...
Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, was in Armenia to discuss tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan took control of in September. She advocated launching a new round of negotiations. The German Foreign Minister traveled to the southern Caucasus on Friday, beginning her...
Germany’s president on November 1 apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German rule, and vowed to seek answers to questions about that era that leave Tanzanians no peace. President Frank-Walter...
Russia bombards 100 settlements within 24 hours as top Ukrainian commander warns war has become deadlocked. Russia has carried out its biggest artillery attack so far this year, Ukraine has said, as Kyiv’s top general admitted the war had reached a deadlock, with little prospect that his troops...
A Ukrainian human rights organization has collected evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian Wagner Group. Lawyers say the mercenary commanders must be held to account. Torture and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, targeted attacks on civilians, and occupying critical...
Dossiers of evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine have been presented to German federal prosecutors at the start of a campaign to use the principle of universal jurisdiction to bring war criminals to justice. The cases were filed on Thursday morning by the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ)...
The United Nations on Monday expressed concern over the "atmosphere of mutual suspicion" in Kosovo, calling for "critical" de-escalatory measures between it and Serbia. Tensions between Pristina and Belgrade have been heightened since a police officer was killed last month in an ambush in Kosovo's...
Politicians, campaigners, and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations (APPG-AR), a group of cross-party MPs, is...