Guatemalan anthropologists have found at least 99 skeletons of Indians massacred during the 1960 to 1996 civil war at an old military outpost.

As a Ugandan law extending amnesty to former rebel fighters is renewed for a further two years, people in the war-torn north of the country say the conflict resolution process should be broadened to ensure compensation for victims.

Two Kenyan traders have now filed a case at the High Court seeking to block four Kenyans facing charges before the ICC from co-operating or subjecting themselves to the Hague-based court.

The secretary general of the United Nations gave a dark appraisal of the Syria conflict on Thursday, accusing its government of failing to carry out nearly every element of the peace plan that took effect a week ago, obstructing work by an advance team of cease-fire monitors and doing nothing to alleviate an intensifying humanitarian crisis on the ground.

The Free Legal Assistance Group has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its March 14, 2012 decision on a human rights suit filed by alleged torture victims three decades ago against martial law-time military officials led by the late Major General Fabian Ver, including then Lieutenant Colonel now Senator Panfilo Lacson.

The officer investigating the war crimes charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leaderl Delwar Hossain Sayedee in his deposition on Thursday said that a number of records and documents dating back to 1971 had been destroyed.

Lebanese lawyers representing a number of Syrian refugees in North Lebanon filed a lawsuit against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the International Criminal Court (ICC), Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa reported on Thursday.

The government has turned down calls for a truth commission to investigate claims that the soon-to-be-repealed Internal Security Act 1960 has been abused.

A Khmer Rouge leader on trial for crimes against humanity on Wednesday rejected claims from the regime's chief jailer as "untruthful", denying he was ever in charge of a torture prison.

War crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday as part of an investigation into charges against Muammar Gaddafi's detained son, Saif al-Islam, sought for trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC).