FREDERICK K.

COX
INTERNATIONAL LAW
CENTER
Founder/Advisor
Michael P. Scharf
WAR CRIMES
PROSECUTION
WATCH
Volume 9 - Issue 12
September 08, 2014
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Peter Beardsley
MANAGING EDITORS
Emily Gibbons
Madeline Jack
SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR
Morgan Kearse
War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents
and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the
investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please
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Opinions expressed in the articles herein represent the views of their authors and are not
necessarily those of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch staff, the Case Western Reserve
University School of Law or Public International Law & Policy Group.

Contents
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Human Rights Watch: Call for African States to Reject Immunity for
Serious Crimes by African Civil Society Organisations and International
Organisations with a Presence in Africa
Hirondelle News Agency: ICC Has No Impact on Peace, Say Congolese
Survey Respondents
Libya
Middle East Eye: Libya's GNC to Take Tripoli Strikes to International
Criminal Court
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Cote d'Ivoire: Using Photo Therapy to
Exorcise Violence in Ivory Coast
Hirondelle News Agency: ICC Asks Abidjan to Boost its Bid to Try Ex-First
Lady
Jurist: Charges Hearing Postponed in ICC Ble Goude Case
Independent Online: Gbagbo's Party Headquarters 'Trashed'
AFRICA
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
ICTR: Scheduling Order for Appeals Judgements in the Cases of The
Prosecutor vs. Ildlphonse Nizeyimana & The Prosecutor vs. Callixte
Nzabonimana
TIMES: Four Guilty of Shooting Rwandan Exile in Johannesburg
Mali
Hirondelle News Agency: Don't Give Amnesty for Serious Mali Crimes, Say
NGOs
Agence France Presse: Suspected Islamists attack UN camp in northern
Mali
BBC News: Mali landmine kills four UN peacekeepers
Kuwait News Agency: UN Security Council condemns attack in Mali
Chad
Star Africa: Habre Trial: Chad's Plea as Plaintiff Rejected
EUROPE
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
Balkan Insight: Kosovo Serb Leader Pleads Innocent to War Crimes
Balkan Insight: Goran Hadzic Denies Controlling Paramilitary Arkan
b92: UNSC Backs War Crimes Court for Kosovo
Balkan Insight: Bosnian Serb Fighter Demands Visegrad Killings Acquittal
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The New York Times: Let the Khmer Rouge Record Show - Cambodia
Shouldn't Censor the Khmer Rouge Court's Files
East Asia Forum: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Delivers Judgment but Not
Justice
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Claudia Fenz
Appointed As New International Judge in the Trial Chamber
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Deadline For Notice
of Case 002/01 Appeals Extended to 29 September 2014
Iraqi High Tribunal
Reuters: U.N. Rights Boss Condemns 'Widespread' Islamic State Crimes In
Iraq
Reuters: U.N. to Send Team to Investigate Islamic State Crimes in Iraq
Syria
AlJazeera America: UN: Death Toll from Syrian Civil War Tops 191,000
AlJazeera America: UN Details Spreading War Crimes in Syria
AlJazeera America: Will Middle East Governments Ever Face
International Justice?
BBC News: UK Paying Experts to Build Islamic State War Crimes Case
Special Tribunal for Lebanon
The Daily Star: Special Tribunal for Lebanon Resumes Hearing
The Daily Star: Hearing Horrific Damage Done to Hariri Crime Scene:
The Daily Star: Mortar Bombs Found at Hariri Bombing Site
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
The Daily Star: Tribunal Accepts War Crimes Against Hasan
The Daily Star: Bagerhat Trio to Face 8 Charges
The Daily Star: War Crimes Convict Alim Taken to ICU
The Daily Star: Prosecution Wants Gallows for Azharul
The Daily Star: Subhan Abetted Mass Killing
The Daily Star: War Crimes Convict Alim Dies in Jail
The Daily Star: Prosecution Failed to Prove Azhar's Command
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
Karen News: Ethnic Groups and Advocates Demand Investigation into
Burma Army's Systematic Use of Rape, Sexual Violence
Karen News: Burma Army Offensive Displaces Thousands, Amidst Reports
of Rape and Shooting of Civilians
Karen News: Political Prisoner Group Alleges Burma Government Using
Criminal Laws to Jail "Political Activists"
The Irrawaddy: Burmese Children's Rights Violated in Thai Detention
Centers: HRW
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
United States
Wall Street Journal: NSA Phone-Data Collection Program Set for Legal Challenge
Guardian: NSA Bulk Collection of Phone Data Under Scrutiny as Federal Case Opens
Washington Post: U.S. Drone Strike in Somalia Targets al-Shabab Leader
Washington Post: NATO Leaders Gather Amid New Menace From Old Foe
Washington Post: Obama to Islamic State: We Will Not be Intimidated
Washington Post: As U.S. Seeks Commitments in Fight Against Islamic State, Its Focus
Is Tightly on Iraq
South & Central America
Colombia
o Thomson Reuters Foundation: Silence Surrounds Colombia's 92,000
Disappeared: ICRC
o Colombia Reports: "We're Victims Too": Colombia's Murderous Ex-
paramilitary Leaders Seek Representation at Peace Talks
El Salvador
TeleSur: El Salvador Government Publishes War Crime Report of its Civil War
Mexico
BBC: Amnesty International: Torture Still Rife in Mexico
TOPICS
Terrorism
The Guardian: Saudi Arabia Intensifies Crackdown on Extremist Groups
The Guardian: China Executes Eight for Terrorist Activities Including Tiananmen
Attack
CBS New York: Prosecutors Call for Life Sentence for Bin Laden's Son-in-Law on
Terror Conviction
Irish Independent: IRA Terror Suspects to Lose Immunity in Britain
Piracy
The Maritime Executive: Good News From Somalia
The Maritime Executive:The State of Piracy
The Maritime Executive: Thai Tanker Hijacked, Robbed
FARS News Agency: Iranian Warships Repel Pirates' Attacks on 2 Cargo Ships in High
Seas
Gender-Based Violence
India Today: Rape Accused Maharashtra Top Cop Paraskar Suspended
Thomson Reuters Foundations: Kenyan Teenager Bleeds to Death Giving Birth Days
after FGM - Report
TThe New York Times: In First for Court, Woman Is Ruled Eligible for Asylum in U.S.
on Basis of Domestic Abuse
AllAfrica: Kenya: Exclusive- Kenya Launches FGM and Child Marriage Hotline
Asylum
The Malaysian Insider: Asean Has Responsibility to Protect the Rohingya
from Genocide
Mail & Guardian: Gaza's Refugees are Being Bombed - Can't Seek Asylum
REPORTS
UN Reports
Reuters: Hamas Backs Palestinian Push for ICC Gaza War Crimes Probe
Haaretz: Ex-New York Judge Named to UN Panel Assessing War Crimes in Gaza
The Daily Star Lebanon: Palestinians Eye U.N. Deadline to End Israeli Occupation
The Jewish Daily Forward: Benjamin Netanyahu Will Not Cooperate With U.N. War
Crimes Investigation
The Guardian: Syria and Isis Committing War Crimes, Says UN
The Times of Israel: Israel Envoy Demands UN Probe Hamas War Crimes
The Jerusalem Post: ICC: Palestine is a State, Can File War Crimes Complaints against
Israel if Chooses
B92: UNSC Backs War Crimes Court for Kosovo
NGO Reports
Mali: All Parties to the Conflict Must Put an End to Ongoing Human Rights Violations
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS
Nepal
The Himalayan: Lawyer Khanal Replaces Malla in Committee to Pick TRC
Commissioners
Republica: Provide Justice to Victims of Enforced Disappearances: ICJ to
Govt
COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES
Just Security: The Administrations Theory for How the 2001 AUMF Could
Apply to ISIS
Just Security: New Development in Palestinian bid to Join International
Criminal Court
Justice in Conflict: Laying the Law for a Future Syria
Just Security: International Law on Airstrikes against ISIS in Syria
ISIL = Genocide?:There may be other ways to address these legal
complications. My point here is to explain the legal framework in which
the administration may need to operate.
Just Security: Harold Koh on the International and Domestic Legal
Options for Containing ISIL
Opinio Juris: Its Time to Reconsider the al-Senussi Case. (But How?)
WORTH READING
63 Emory Law Journal 1089 (2014): Human Rights after Kiobel: Choice of
Law and the Rise of Transnational Tort Litigation
Finalized Version Will Appear in D. Abels & R. Mulgrew (Eds.), Research
Handbook on the International Penal System, Elgar Publishers 2015: The
Objectives of International Punishment