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Can Kosovo sue Serbia for genocide?
Twenty-two years after the war, Kosovo announced for the second time that will prepare the case to sue Serbia for the genocide caused during the period 1998/99 in Kosovo. The…
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Russian mercenaries have a hand in war crimes in CAR
Russians mercenaries are involved in gross human rights violations. UN experts reported on "serious human rights violations" committed by Russian security companies, including mass shootings, mass summary executions, arbitrary detentions, torture, forced disappearances, forced displacement…
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Potential risks and impact of the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, 2020
This report by the International Organization for the Least Developed Countries on the recruitment, use, financing, and training of foreign mercenaries focuses on the emerging pattern of a systematic transfers…
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The Shadows of a Court
The Kosovo Special Tribunal based in Hague on November 5th indicted the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Joining him are…
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Government weakness and land disputes lead to violence in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has seen a recent surge in violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands. Rights group accused security forces of executing at least 180 Fulanis in…
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What happened to “Never again” and to “R2P”?
Traumatized by the 6 million deaths of Jews in concentration camps during World War II, Europe came out after Nuremberg stating that another genocide never happened again. On December 9,…
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Specifics of Russian private military companies’ activity
The participation of Russian private military companies in foreign operations has been confirmed at least in such countries as Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Venezuela, Sudan and Ukraine.…
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Kosovo: political or justice decision?
On April 24, the Kosovo Specialist Prosecution Office (SPO) in the Hague asked for indictment for war crimes and crimes against humanity for the current president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci,…
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Mosque vandalized by Russians in Libya: Wagner Group neo-Nazis on the side of Khalifa Haftar
Russian mercenaries from Wagner PMC who are fighting in Libya on the side of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar desecrated Niffati Mosque in Ein Zara in south of Tripoli. Russia's Wagner…