All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
Mass Atrocity Monday, 5/2/2016: The Wagalla Massacre
13 May 2016
by Justice in Conflict, Kate Cronin-Furman
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people died on the Wagalla airstrip in early February, 1984. The victims were ethnic Somalis living in Kenya’s North Eastern province. Their killers were members of the Kenyan army, ostensibly investi [...]
Rights groups slam Nepal deal on war crimes amnesty
13 May 2016
by AFP
Human rights groups on Friday slammed a deal between Nepal's ruling parties to withdraw civil war cases from courts and offer amnesty to people accused of abuses during the country's decade-long Maoist insurgency. Former Maoist re [...]
12 May 2016
by The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy
Six international and local NGOs wrote to the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs expressing concern over the King of Bahrain’s state visit to Switzerland later this week. King Hamad is expected to arrive in Bern on Thursday 12 May, [...]
11 May 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Was the apparently mistaken bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, by US forces a war crime? The American authorities recently completed their investigation, concluding that it was not. MSF, on [...]
10 May 2016
by AFP
Rwandan mayors on trial in France over 1994 genocide
Two former Rwandan mayors went on trial in Paris on Tuesday, accused of orchestrating "massive and systematic summary executions" during the central African country's 1994 genocide. Octavien Ngenzi, 58, and Tito Barahira, 64, are [...]
9 May 2016
by Franck Petit
France Tries Two Rwandan Mayors for Genocide
A second trial linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, originally announced for 2015, is finally set to open on Tuesday May 10 before the Paris Assize Court. It comes two years after the first trial, which saw former Rwandan intellig [...]
9 May 2016
by The Conversation, Carlton Mark Waterhouse
Should the U.S. provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?
The debate over reparations in the United States began even before slavery ended in 1865. It continues today. The overwhelming majority of academics studying the issue have supported the calls for compensating black Americans for [...]
9 May 2016
by Human Rights Watch, John Sifton
Pentagon hospital attack report falls short
The Pentagon on Friday released the findings of its inquiry into the October 3, 2015, air attack on a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. If the report was meant to demonstra [...]
9 May 2016
by François Sergent
The Week in Review: War on the Rules of War
Even war has rules – a complex set of judicial constraints born from the ideas of Saint Augustin and Saint Thomas on what constitutes a “just war”, and enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, of which the International Committee of t [...]
8 May 2016
by AFP
Rwanda's 100-day bloodbath, a modern genocide
At least 800,000 people were slaughtered in a 100-day orgy of violence instigated by the extremist Hutu regime in power in Rwanda in 1994. The bloodbath was unleashed after Rwanda's President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when hi [...]
8 May 2016
by AFP
Rwandan genocide survivors hope for justice from Paris trial
Twenty-two years after the Rwandan genocide, Jean-Damascene Rutagungira still cannot bear the sight of the Catholic church in the eastern village of Kabarondo, where his family was massacred before his eyes. Sitting in front of hi [...]
6 May 2016
by Ben Parker, IRIN
MSF pulls out of World Humanitarian Summit
The UN expects 6,000 people at a historic humanitarian conference in Istanbul later this month. But one prominent participant has dropped out. The international medical organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors Withou [...]
5 May 2016
by Pierre Hazan
What 50 War Criminals Have to Say about International Justice
Do perpetrators of genocide and war crimes feel guilty? How do they see international justice? Have trials and tough sanctions changed their perspective, or do they dream of vengeance? Up to now, answers to such questions have bee [...]
4 May 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
World Humanitarian Summit Must Act on Rules of War, says ICRC International Law and Policy Director
Here we publish an interview with Helen Durham, International Law and Policy Director at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a Swiss-based humanitarian organization which serves as the guardian of the Geneva Conv [...]
4 May 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Senegal: Hissène Habré Verdict Scheduled May 30
Updated Questions and Answers on Trial of Ex-Chad Dictator Human Rights Watch on May 3, 2016, issued an updated question-and-answer document about the trial in Senegal of the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré. A verdict is sch [...]
3 May 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas
Should war wrimes investigations be privatized?
International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations have often failed owing to poor strategy and lack of State cooperation. This has provoked a debate on what should be done. Should international crimes investigations be privatized?
3 May 2016
by Margaux Benn
Armed with radios, C.Africa villages combat LRA rebels
"Charlie Six, India One here... we're going to begin the check-in," says radio operator Joanick from his small studio in Obo, calling out to the surrounding villages in southeast Central African Republic. It's a daily meeting at d [...]
2 May 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
On World Press Freedom Day, Tunisian Media Struggling with New Freedoms
Olfa Belhassine is a journalist for newspaper La Presse in Tunisia and correspondent for JusticeInfo in that country. To mark World Press Freedom Day this May 3, we publish her account of Tunisia’s transition from zero press freed [...]
2 May 2016
by AFP
Swiss mull extradition for Kosovan war crimes suspects: report
Swiss authorities have arrested two Kosovans wanted by Serbia for suspected war crimes, but the question of where to extradite them to is stirring up diplomatic tensions, Swiss media said Monday. The men, whose names were not give [...]