Friday, 17 May , 2024

War crimes

Resistance and resilience, responsibility and recompense

World War II obligations to Greece By Jeffrey Levett 16 May 2020, On 1 September 1939, German forces invaded Poland; Britain and France entered the war with...

China calls for Western sanctions on Australia over human rights

By Michael Smith and Andrew Tillett Mar 25, 2021 China has accused the Morrison government of operating a concentration camp on Manus Island as officials in...

Australian government and media seek to bury Afghanistan war crimes

By Oscar Grenfell 26 March 2021 Four months after the government-commissioned Brereton report said there was “credible evidence” of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, including the...

Serbian lawyers to file first lawsuits against NATO over use of...

20 Jan, 2021 A team of legal experts is set to file the first cases against the NATO alliance on behalf of people who developed...

‘Felt physically ill’: Australian defence minister Linda Reynolds on war crimes...

Australian Defence Force Chief General Angus Campbell on Thursday said the report found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers...

Yemenis seek justice for ‘unlawful’ US drone strike killings

28/01/2021 Two Yemeni families have filed a petition this week against the US government over the "unlawful" killing of 34 relatives, including nine children, in...

An Israeli Fascism? Is it possible?

Netanyahu’s Days May Be Numbered, but a Cadre of Far-Right Fanatics Wait in the Wings While every society has had to deal with its own...

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: ‘Execution’ video prompts war crime probe

By Grigor Atanesian & Benjamin Strick 24 October 2020 Videos of a potential war crime have emerged as fighting rages around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh...

5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire

A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of...

Mosul: One year on

After ISIL, a city still in ruins. by Tom Peyre-Costa 6 Jul 2018 More than 380,000 people are still displaced in and around Mosul as the city...