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Obama: Use Tech to Abuse Rebels, We'll Sanction You

Mark Russell — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:23:22 CDT

If you use technology to help a repressive regime commit human rights abuses, you'll find yourself slapped with US sanctions. That's the message from President Obama, who this morning announced a new executive order specifically targeting those backing Iran and Syria via technology, though it could be expanded to other...

Clooney Testifies: 'Campaign of Murder' in Sudan

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:54:12 CDT

George Clooney, long an advocate for Sudan , testified before Congress today about the "campaign of murder" being carried out in the country. Clooney just returned from a trip to the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, where he says villagers hide from daily bombings. "We found children filled with shrapnel, including...

NH Woman Faces Trial for Aiding Rwanda Genocide

Rob Quinn — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:02:00 CST

A jury in New Hampshire will soon be hearing weeks of graphic testimony about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Beatrice Munyenyezi, who came to the US in 1995, is accused of lying about her role in the slaughter on her refugee and citizenship applications. Prosecutors say the 42-year-old woman was...

Human Rights Groups Need Drones

Kevin Spak — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:11:36 CST

Drones have transformed warfare, but they're "not just for firing missiles in Pakistan," anti-genocide activists Andrew Sniderman and Mark Hanis argue in the New York Times . Their radical proposal: Human rights groups should be buying drones, and using them to keep an eye on brutal governments. Imagine using a drone...

France Making It a Crime to Deny Armenian Genocide

Mark Russell — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:30:01 CST

If you are in France and deny that Turkey committed "genocide" against 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1916, be prepared to be fined $57,000 and spend a year in jail. Actually, the new legislation applies to genocide denial in general, but it is the law's application to the mass...

Rwandan Gets Life Sentence in 1994 Massacre

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:12:05 CDT

A Dutch appeals court has convicted a Rwandan Hutu man of war crimes and sentenced him to life in prison for taking part in a massacre of Tutsis sheltering in a church during his country's 1994 genocide. The Hague Court of Appeal reversed Joseph Mpambara's acquittal by a lower court,...

Rwandan Woman Is First Ever Convicted of Genocide

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:54:05 CDT

The UN Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes today and gave both life sentences, marking the first time a woman has been convicted of genocide. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda's former minister for family and women affairs,...

Boy in Chilling Srebrenica Pic 'Glad' Mladic Captured

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:23:45 CDT

It's a chilling image: Ratko Mladic, the accused mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre, pats a tow-headed Muslim boy on the head and assures him all will be safe—a simple gift of chocolate just hours before the spilling of so much blood. The AP went looking for the boy in...

Son: Mladic Had Nothing to Do With Srebrenica

Sun, 29 May 2011 08:16:07 CDT

Ratko Mladic claims he had nothing to do with the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it fell during the 1992-1995 war, his son said today. Darko Mladic said his father denies ordering the massacre—the worst atrocity in Europe since the...