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Described as one of the most graphic documentaries in British TV history, the documentary featured amateur video from the conflict zone filmed by civilians and Sri Lankan soldiers which depicted "horrific war crimes". [1] The video filmed by civilians included scenes during and after intense shelling of civilian targets, including hospitals, by ...
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The ICC has publicly indicted 68 people. Proceedings against 34 are ongoing: 30 are at large as fugitives and four are on trial. Proceedings against 34 have been completed: three are serving sentences, seven have finished sentences, four have been acquitted, seven have had the charges against them dismissed, four have had the charges against them withdrawn, and nine have died before the ...
This allowed for the trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary for the crime of genocide. They were given an American defense lawyer, Hope Stevens, [181] and were tried in absentia and convicted of genocide. [182] The war continued until 1989 as an insurgency against the Vietnamese occupation by the Khmer Rouge and several other groups.
The ethnic cleansing and massacres of Georgians have been officially recognized by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conventions in 1994, 1996, and 1999 during the Budapest, Lisbon, and Istanbul summits, which condemned the "perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflict." [12] [13] [14]
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death (earlier title: Massacre at Mazar) [1] is a 2002 documentary by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran and Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi.It documents alleged war crimes committed by National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, a faction of the Northern Alliance under the command of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, against captured Taliban fighters.
President Biden announced on Thursday he was granting 39 pardons to people with non-violent criminal convictions and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500, the largest single-day act of clemency ...
He crawled out of a pile of corpses under the cover of darkness and hid in a cave in the Bảy Núi, known as Elephant Mountain, when "those who were mutilated by Pol Pot did not stop screaming". [10] Another survivor, Ha Thi Nga, was taken captive near the border with her parents, siblings, husband and six children and was brutally beaten.