What the hell takes these trials so long.
either way another conviction, maybe in another decade or so they will convict someone else.
BBC
A former Rwandan women's minister has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the genocide and the rape of Tutsi women and girls.
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, is the first woman convicted by the UN-backed tribunal for the Rwanda genocide.
She was found guilty, along with her son and four other former officials, after a 10-year trial.
Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed during the 1994 massacres.
Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genocide. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Rwanda: Ex-women's minister guilty of genocide, rape
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Ivory Coast on brink of "genocide,"
When Politics go wrong.
The U.N., Whether they go in or not; Mr.Gbagbo will likely wreak havoc on the Ivory coast.
(Reuters) - Political unrest following Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election has brought the West African country to the "brink of genocide," its new ambassador to the United Nations said.
World leaders have stepped up pressure on Laurent Gbagbo to quit in favor of Alassane Ouattara, widely recognized as having won the vote.
Youssoufou Bamba, appointed as ambassador to the United Nations by Ouattara, described him as the rightful ruler of Ivory Coast.
"He has been elected in a free, fair, transparent, democratic election. The result has been proclaimed by the independent electoral commission, certified by the U.N.," Bamba told a news conference on Wednesday.
"To me the debate is over, now you are talking about how and when Mr. Gbagbo will leave office," Bamba said.
He said there had been a "massive violation of human rights," with more than 170 people killed during street demonstrations in Ivory Coast.
"Thus, one of the messages I try to get across during the conversations I have conducted so far, is to tell we are on the brink of genocide. Something should be done," Bamba told journalists.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tears and disbelief at Duch verdict
Duch , should have at the least , been given Life !
BBC
First came the verdict. Then the disbelief. Finally the outrage.
The idea that a man who admitted overseeing the torture and murder of thousands of people might be free in 19 years was too much for some people who lived through the horrors of the Pol Pot era.
At least one man left the court in disgust on hearing the sentence.
Chum Mey has more reason than most to feel bitter. He was held in the S-21 detention centre which Comrade Duch ran, and suffered regular torture; his wife and children were killed.
Now he is one of only three confirmed living survivors of around 15,000 inmates.
On the steps outside the court, he vented his frustration.
"I ask if Cambodians are happy and the world is happy that millions of people died, a lot of money has been spent on the court - and the perpetrator is free [in 19 years]? I am not happy with that," he said
Monday, July 12, 2010
Darfur warrant for Sudan's Bashir: ICC adds genocide
Not that anything will come of it now , they still have to arrest the man !
once he is arrested , International Criminal Court could take months and months between court dates and appeals and all the legal B.S. that goes on during a trial like this .
But at least the Proper charges have finally been filed !
He will probably Die before being convicted .
BBC
The International Criminal Court has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - this time for charges of genocide.
He already faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies.
The ICC first indicted him in March 2009 but he has not been arrested.
He is accused over the conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people are said to have died in seven years of fighting.
The ICC had initially declined to add genocide to the indictment but this has been overturned on appeal, with the judges finding "there are reasonable grounds to believe him responsible for three counts of genocide".
Pro-government Arab militias are accused of ethnic cleansing against civilians from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa communities after rebel took up arms in Darfur in 2003.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Canada court finds Rwandan guilty of war crimes
15 years later , The only problem I have with this is the fact that he only faces life in prison ! That is way to nice of a sentence for a person who has committed Crimes like this guy has !
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court found a Rwandan man guilty on Friday of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, making him the first person convicted under Canada's war crimes act.
Desire Munyaneza, 42, was convicted by a Superior Court judge in the province of Quebec on seven charges that stemmed from the part he played in killings and rapes in the Rwandan region of Butare.
In 1994, extremists from Rwanda's Hutu majority hacked and shot to death 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
"The evidence showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused participated in the hunting down of Tutsi ... Desire Munyaneza was at the forefront of the genocidal movement," Judge Andre Denis wrote in his judgment.
Munyaneza faces life imprisonment. His lawyer has already made clear he will appeal.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Turkey recalls ambassador from Canada over vigil
Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Canada for 'consultations' because Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper dared speak to the truth about the Armenian genocide. Reuters
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Canada for consultation, said a Foreign Ministry source on Wednesday, after Canada's prime minister spoke at a vigil to commemorate the 1915 killing of Armenians.
Premier Stephen Harper gave support on Tuesday to claims that the 1915 killings by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide, the source said, a term fiercely rejected by Ankara, which says many were killed on both sides.
"The ambassador has been called back is currently going through consultations over what to do. We don't know how long he will be here," the source said.
"He was called back due to the position of Prime Minister Harper who spoke at a commemorative vigil and whose speech recognized (the events of 1915) as genocide," said the Foreign Ministry source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Pakistan Christian Congress files petition with UNO for Refugee Status for Pakistani Christians
Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress writes to Ki Ban Moon in order to highlight the religious genocide that is occuring in Pakistan right now. Read the whole the letter. Pakistan Christian Post
His Excelleny,
I, the undersigned , Nazir S Bhatti, Chief of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, on behalf of 20 million Christian in Islamic Republic of Pakistan wish to draw your kind attention on enforced migration and displacement of thousands of Christians from Swat valley, Peshawar, Mardan, Nowshera and FATA after threats to convert to Islam or die by Islamist elements. These families are staying with their relatives in Punjab and Sindh provinces facing immense miseries and hardships after denial by government of Pakistan to provide any assistance or security. The hundreds of Christians families of victims of blasphemy are living in hiding for safety of life weather accused are acquitted or in jails. Thousands of Christian families keep on shifting residence in different parts of Pakistan on threats by influential Muslims or in fear of implication in fabricated cases by police. The mass migration of poor oppressed Christian is never brought on record by government of Pakistan nor any human right organization have urged for their settlement where they may live peaceful life.
It will be very important to note in 21st century that Christian are treated as untouchable by Muslim majority on basis of religion and cannot dine at any roadside vendor, restaurant and hotel which is worst type of hate on globe towards Christian in Pakistan. If any Christian on journey or away from home is hungry and attempts to eat in any Muslim owned dinner, he is beaten and tortured by Muslims and forced to pay for plates and glass in which he eats or any thing he have touched. The Pakistan Christian Congress PCC presented many memorandums to government from 1985-1998 to legislate against curse of un-touchable to ensure social justice in society but such demands were neglected. The curse of un-touchable have prevented Christians to take part in profitable catering industry because Pakistani Muslim terms Christians as infidel under Islamic decree which prohibit to eat any food prepared by them.
His Excellency,
The churches are being attacked, pastors are being threatened, social activists are charged under blasphemy, teenage girls are gang-raped by Muslims and Christian women are enforcedly converted to marry by Muslims in Pakistan. There are innocent Christians accused of blasphemy behind bars and hundreds facing trials under fabricated false cases; The Churches in Bahawalpur, Islamabad, Chianwali, Sangla Hill, Toba Tek, Sukkur, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and in many villages have been attacked by militant Muslim extremists groups killing hundreds of Christian worshipers but non of killer is arrested and brought to justice from 1998-2009. The government also failed to protect Christian institution of Murree School, Taxila Hospital, Bible Society and Justice and Peace Organization at Karachi, from attacks of extremist Muslim groups who massacred Christian social activists.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
UN court convicts architect of Rwandan atrocities
If you ever wanted to say "It's about Damn Time" To Anything this is what you would want to say it about !
This jackass should fry like no-one Has ever fried before !The CSM
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PARIS - A United Nations-backed court in Tanzania on Thursday convicted the one of the masterminds of the Rwandan genocide – a decision that is an important milestone both for a record of truth telling in Rwanda and for international justice.
Theoneste Bagasora, a former Rwandan Army colonel, was found guilty of "genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes" in the 1994 slaughter of more than 800,000 people. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda also convicted ex-military commanders Anatole Nsengiyumva and Aloys Ntabakuze of genocide. All three were sentenced to life in prison.
Mr. Bagasora was the "highest authority in the Rwanda Ministry of Defense" and was captured in 1996, two years after Hutu militias, backed by the Army, went on a 100-day killing spree that targeted minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Thursday's verdict is considered a boon for an International Criminal Court in The Hague that recently indicted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir for genocide in Darfur.
"The Bagasora verdict is a rebuke to the self-serving and demagogic argument by al-Bashir and his supporters that accountability and justice through an international court is somehow 'anti-African,' " says Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch in New York. "This is a conviction by an international tribunal for genocide against Africans, and it serves African victims."
The Rwandan genocide is regarded as the most horrifying slaughter of innocent people in a concentrated period of time since the Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia 30 years ago. Since the crimes in Cambodia have yet to be adjudicated, the UN-backed tribunal in Tanzania took on the worst killings since the Nurembourg court after World War II and Auschwitz.
Justice experts hailed the Bagasora conviction as another important verdict, marking a slow rise in importance for international courts and tribunals in the past year. In recent months, Radovan Karadzic, mastermind of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, has been brought to the former Yugoslavia tribunal at The Hague.
Bagasora may be the highest ranking individual charged and found guilty of genocide. He may be on par, in terms of level of culpability, with still unapprehended Serbian general Ratko Mladic. Another Serbian general, Radislav Krstic, was found guilty of genocide in the Srebrenica massacre in Yugoslavia in 1995. But Kristic was also found not to have organized the genocide – as Bagarsora was in the Thursday ruling.
"The concept of accountability – of no one being above the law – has developed seriously," says Sara Darehshori, a prosecutor for the Rwanda tribunal in 1996. "At the beginning, the Rwanda tribunal was a novel institution. But today the international justice system is taken seriously."
Part of the importance of tribunals in nations devastated by ethnic cleansing or genocide is their usefulness as a somewhat impartial record of what happened, say legal specialists. Trials and conclusive verdicts play a role as much in the social and political lives of states as in the legal efforts to bring about justice.
"This leaves a clear legal record and a record in which legal weight is attached. This is where history and law meet," says Ana Uzelac, an independent expert specializing in postconflict justice at the Hague.
"The Bagarsora verdict is, first, hugely important for Rwanda. The trial offers a legal narrative that tells what happened. Tribunals have been reluctant to claim ownership of their role. But now we have a [truth-finding commission] for Rwanda – a narrative of the organization of genocide through reliable documents and witnesses," she says.
For Rwanda, part of the record of the 100 days of killing in 1994 remains unaddressed, says Ms. Darehshori.
There has still been no serious effort to prosecute soldiers from the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front that fought the Hutu militias. Ms.Darehshori says there is no equivalency between the Hutu-led slaughter and the Tutsi killings. But that crimes by the RPF were "part of the picture."
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