Ugandan Court Orders Compensation for Lord’s Resistance Army Victims

Ugandan Court Orders Compensation for Lord’s Resistance Army Victims

A Ugandan court has directed the government to pay up to US$2,740 to each victim of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army says Reuters. In October, Kwoyelo, the first senior LRA member convicted by Uganda’s judiciary, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for war crimes, including murder, rape, enslavement, torture, and kidnapping.

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US charges Syrians with war crimes

The United States has filed war crimes charges against two high-ranking Syrian military figures who it accuses of torturing American citizens. It comes after the government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed, with the former president fleeing the country. Nick Harper reports from Washington.

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UN report accuses Israel of targeting Gaza’s healthcare

The Chairperson of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, presented the commission's latest investigative report to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, 31 October 2024. Navi Pillay and her team, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, determined that Israel has implemented a policy aimed at destroying Gaza's healthcare system as part of a larger offensive, committing war crimes, […]

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Europe’s top rights body blasts Serbia over police abuse

The Council of Europe on Thursday slammed Serbia for failing to rein in police abuse, saying in a report that alleged violence by officers could amount to torture. The new report comes less than a year following a visit to Serbia in March 2023 by a delegation from the council's anti-torture committee. During its research trip, representatives from the committee found individuals in police custody in Serbia run the […]

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