With all eyes on Syria, few have noticed that in the Central African Republic, the Seleka, a coalition of rebel groups that took power in March, has killed scores of unarmed civilians. The Seleka has also destroyed more than 1,000 homes and numerous villages. Human Rights Watch investigated.
As if the Seleka’s large-scale attacks on civilians weren’t enough, they also recruited children to carry out some of this carnage.
A court in Kosovo acquitted a former Kosovo Liberation Army commander and high-ranking politician, along with nine others, of war crimes related to the 1998 torture and killings of Serbian and Albanian civilians in a makeshift detention center. So who committed this crime?
Yesterday's arrest of prominent Bahraini opposition figure Khalil Marzook marks a significant escalation in the authorities’ attempts to portray all critics as terrorists.
In Greece, tensions rise after the alleged murder of a prominent anti-racist hip-hop artist by a self-proclaimed member of the fascist Golden Dawn party. This comes against a backdrop of growing intolerance for “outsiders” in Greece, as well as xenophobic violence against migrants and asylum seekers.
From this morning:
As the five permanent members of the UN Security Council began discussions on a Syria resolution, Russia attacked the UN inspectors' investigation into the massive chemical weapons attack in Damascus, claiming the Sellstrom report was "biased and one-sided". Moscow was then roundly criticized for the paucity and provenance of the counter-evidence it has thus far offered. Accountability for this and other crimes committed by both sides during the war could be addressed in the form of a referral of the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Security Council resolution.
