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Month: June 2019

5 June 2019 by AFP
Ahead of election, Greece seeks German war debt talks Greece's leftist government has called on Germany to discuss the payment of war crime reparations a month before elections where it faces defeat. The foreign ministry in Berlin on Wednesday confirmed having received the demand fro [...]
4 June 2019 by AFP
Trudeau says he accepts Canada inquiry's 'genocide' finding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he accepts a government inquiry's finding that the disappearances and deaths of possibly thousands of indigenous women, victims of endemic violence in Canada, amounted to genocide. A four [...]
4 June 2019 by AFP
UN probe urges DR Congo to 'step up' fight against impunity UN investigators on Tuesday urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to "step up the pace" and broaden their efforts to ensure accountability for serious violations in the restive Kasai region. In a fresh report, the [...]
4 June 2019 by AFP
Seven killed in Myanmar monastery shelling: witnesses Seven people were killed when artillery rounds slammed into a monastery where they were sheltering from firefights between military and insurgent forces in Myanmar's Rakhine state, witnesses said Tuesday. The military has deployed [...]
4 June 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s transition: Expensive justice for a poor, little country The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia runs a 2,8 million dollars budget for 2019. It is part of a larger effort in transitional justice programs that costs a lot in this poor country. One of the surpri [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
A controversial genocide against Canadian indigenous women A report released on June 3 describes as "genocide" the deaths of more than 1200 indigenous women murdered or disappeared in Canada between 1980 and 2012. The Canadian Prime Minister accepted the conclusions of this report, which [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
Prosecute top EU officials for migrant deaths, lawyers say Top European Union and member states' officials should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity over the drownings of thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, international lawyers said Monday. The Paris-based lawyers pres [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
Canadian indigenous women victims of silent 'genocide': inquiry After two and a half years of hearings, a Canadian inquiry Monday released its final report on the disappearance and death of hundreds, if not thousands of indigenous women, victims of endemic violence it controversially said amou [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
Prosecute top EU officials for migrant deaths, lawyers say Top European Union and member states' officials should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity over the drownings of thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, international lawyers said Monday. The Paris-based lawyers pres [...]
3 June 2019 by Sètondji Roland Adjovi
Can the victims of the Habré regime still get reparations? Three years ago, on 30 May 2016, former Chadian President Hissène Habré was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Extraordinary African Chambers ordered the payment of significant reparations, but since then not [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
Qatar: two years of crisis in the Gulf Two years ago Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies cut ties with Qatar, sparking a major diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region. Here is a recap. - Regional rupture - Simmering regional tensions boil over on June [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
Amnesty asks Mauritania's presidential candidates to end slavery Amnesty International on Monday led some 30 other rights groups in Mauritania in asking the candidates in the presidential election later this month to end slavery and violence against women in the poor sub-Saharan country. Six ca [...]
1 June 2019 by AFP
D-Day: the leading military figures Here are short profiles of key military figures involved in the D-Day landings: - General Dwight Eisenhower - As Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, future US president "Ike" Eisenhower was in charge of overall preparati [...]