Topic: War Crimes

Former Guatemalan dictator now under house arrest

10:24AM GMT . Comments . . A ruling on Thursday by the Guatemalan judge Patricia Flores opened the way for the prosecution of the 85-year-old...
The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a judge violated due process when she issued unprecedented genocide ...

Former Guatemalan leader at 'genocide' hearing

Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous ...
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, a man whose private life is revealed to the public only in glimpses, on Friday described the loss that his family...

Rwanda has risen again

Walking along the bustling, asphalted streets of Kigali, among the crowds of tourists and schoolchildren, packed buses and noisy motorcycles, it's...
The collapse this week of the prosecution of a Marine for a civilian massacre in Haditha, Iraq - a striking outcome, even in a military justice...
Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back... at least temporarily. As part of...

In N. Korea, use a cellphone and die

North Koreans found using cellphones are guilty of 'war crimes.' At least, during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il, we're told. In IT...
North Korea is one of the most closed-off countries in the world, and now its government is trying to limit information flow even more by...
Cloths embroidered with signs are seen in front of the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City January 26, 2012. Former Guatemalan dictator...