July 08

The Srebrenica Massacres: A Watershed For International Justice And Security?

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by Festus B. Aboagye,Senior Research Fellow, Peace Missions Programme, ISS, Pretoria

In what is aptly a watershed ruling, a Dutch court has found the Dutch state responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men during the horrendous surrender of thousands of Muslim men and boys (about 8,000) in 1995, during the Bosnian war.

 



Besides the legal wrangling that is certain to follow this ruling, there are several implications for all actors in UN peacekeeping, especially for complex peacekeeping within Africa, where impunity and non-accountability are rife in violent armed conflicts and post-conflict peacekeeping.

In the ruling on 5 July 2011, the court in The Hague stated that ‘…the Dutch state is responsible for the death of these men because Dutchbat (the UN Dutch battalion) should not have handed them over’. As a result, the court argued that the Dutch state acted illegally and was responsible for the deaths of the three Bosnian Muslim men who were among the thousands sheltering in the UN-declared ‘safe area’ of Srebrenica... [more]

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June 06

The Legacy Of Rwanda’S Community-Based Gacaca Courts. Human Rights Watch

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Justice Compromised: The Legacy of Rwanda’s Community-Based Gacaca Courts
May 31, 2011 

This report assesses the courts’ achievements and outlines a number of serious shortcomings in their work, including corruption and procedural irregularities. The report also examines the government’s decision to transfer genocide-related rape cases to the gacaca courts and to exclude from their jurisdiction crimes committed by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the country’s ruling party since the genocide ended in July 1994.

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November 23

Nuremberg Trials

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Nuremberg Trials and their Legacy

Nuremberg Trials and their Legacy is an online exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) designed to mark the 60th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The site includes background information to the Nuremberg trials and photographs from the International Military Tribunal. There are video clips, requiring RealPlayer, of interviews with people involved in collecting evidence for the Nuremberg trials. Links are given to related resources including articles from the Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia and a bibliography of the Nuremberg trials. A discussion board allows users to post comments and engage in discussion on the holocaust. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/warcrimetrials/comment_post.php

September 11

Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University

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Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University
The Cambodian Genocide Program is a well established project of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Its website provides historical information on the genocide led by Pol Pot which killed over 1.7 million people between 1975-1979. This includes details of Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal and free access to the Cambodian Genocide Data Bases. The latter include detailed maps and satellite images of Cambodia before and after the Genocide, Over 5,000 photographs from Tuol Sleng archive, biographical Information on over 19,000 individuals involved, and a bibliographic database with references and links to some scanned full text materials. These include over 3,000 books, articles, maps, primary documents, audio recordings, and video recordings. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
June 04

Responsibility To Protect Civilians In Africa

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Safeguarding civilians:delivering on the responsibility to protect in Africa

This site provides access to the full text of the report by David Mepham and Alexander Ramsbotham which was published by the Institute for Public Policy Research in May 2007...

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May 25

Mass Murder

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Mass murder: What causes it? Can it be stopped? (PDF; 903 KB)
Source: Contexts (American Sociological Association)

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