A growing number of fighters granted amnesty under the 2016 peace deal have picked up arms, again, against paramilitary groups in Colombia. The rebels say that they feel themselves under threat by a range of paramilitary groups that rushed to take control of the territory that the rebels left when they signed the peace deal. Former rebel leaders are urging the fighters not to return to battle, but also say they understand their reasons for fighting, considering the dangers they now face as civilians under the right-wing government of newly inaugurated president Ivan Duque.

The report from a United Nations (UN) factfinding mission on abuses committed by the Burmese army against the Rohingya people was presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday. The report calls for the Burmese army, known as the Tatmadaw, to be stripped of its quota of parliamentary seats and brought under civilian oversite, and for the prosecution of senior military leaders for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

Last week, a court in Cairo sentenced 75 people to death, including top leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a mass trial. The political wing of the organization has urged the international community to take measures to halt their execution and investigate the “improper” trial. In addition to those sentenced to death, nearly 600 others received prison terms for inciting violence and organizing protests against the military coup that overthrew Egypt’s first freely elected President, Mohammed Morsi.

Thousands of Tamil families in northern Sri Lanka lost contact with loved ones in the final stretch of the brutal civil war that ended nearly 10 years ago and have yet to hear from them. The Sinhalese-dominated government denies that they are holding people in detention centers or secret prisons, and also dismisses as fabrication that those who disappeared were killed in extrajudicial killings.

Last week, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided that the court has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh. While Myanmar is not a signatory to the ICC, Bangladesh is, and, since an element of the crime (crossing the border) occurred in Bangladesh, the court has ruled it has jurisdiction for this crime. The ruling paves the way for the court to further investigate alleged crimes against humanity committed by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities.

Yesterday, American National Security Adviser John Bolton called the International Criminal Court (ICC) illegitimate and threatened officials there with sanctions and criminal prosecution over an ICC investigation into alleged American war crimes in Afghanistan. He also announced the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, DC, because of its calls for an ICC inquiry into Israel.

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In the last few years, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Uighur Muslims have been taken to internment camps where they are forced into a high-pressure indoctrination program, including forced lectures, singing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party, and writing “self-criticism essays.” Beijing has been long unnerved by the Uighur minority and, since 2014, the government has escalated a crackdown against Islamic practice and orchestrated an unforgiving drive to turn ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities into loyal citizens and supporters of the party.