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UN human rights commission says war crimes have been committed in Ukraine

Investigators found "visible signs of executions on bodies, such as hands tied behind backs ... and slit throats."

Axios

‘Our lives are destroyed’: families take fight for truth of flight 752 to ICC

Exclusive: grieving relatives allege war crime and crime against humanity over January 2020 downing of aircraft

The Guardian - UK

‘A country of missing people’: How Russia is vanishing thousands of Ukrainians

The Missing: In her latest investigation, international correspondent Bel Trew reports from Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Poltava, speaking to Ukrainians and families of victims who were captured and taken to Russia in another possible war crime

The Independent UK

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Mum says son was shot in back by Russians after they smashed his phone SIM card

A mum in Ukraine is calling for justice for her son after he was shot and killed in Ukraine in an alleged war crime by Russian troops. Cases against Russia are mounting as investigations continue

Daily Mirror

Ukraine exports 1 million tonnes of grain under new deal, train attacks may be war crimes, experts say

President Zelenskyy says Ukraine has so far exported 1 million tonnes of agricultural products from its Black Sea ports under the terms of a grain deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations.

ABC News

Ukraine train station attack may be war crime, experts say

Some international legal scholars say Russia’s attack on a Ukrainian train station that killed more than 20 people this week is the latest in a series of strikes on the country’s railway system that may be war crimes

The Independent UK

UN rights office 'very concerned' about planned trials of Ukrainian POWs

The U.N. human rights office expressed concern on Tuesday about plans by Russian-backed authorities to try Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the port city of Mariupol, possibly within days, saying such a process could itself amount to a war crime.

Reuters

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Justice should be colour blind. So why is it served for Ukraine but not the Congolese?

While the west races to investigate Russia’s war crimes, it continues to ignore atrocities perpetrated on DRC for 20 years

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine investigating nearly 26,000 alleged war crimes

Just 15 of 135 people charged are in custody, prosecutor says

The Independent UK

Ukraine probing almost 26,000 suspected war crimes cases - prosecutor

Ukraine is investigating almost 26,000 suspected war crime cases committed since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion and has charged 135 people, its chief war crimes prosecutor told Reuters.

Reuters

Proving war crimes isn't simple – a forensics expert explains what's involved with documenting human rights violations during conflicts, from Afghanistan to Ukraine

The United Nations reports that at least 5,237 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the Ukraine war – but other estimates place this figure at more than 10,000.

The Conversation

Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘war crime’ after air strike kills 50 Ukrainian prisoners

Around 50 prisoners are believed to have been killed and at least 75 wounded in the attack

Evening Standard

Ukraine urges UN and Red Cross to investigate prisoner of war deaths after rocket strike

Volodymyr Zelenksy says attack was a ‘deliberate Russian war crime’

The Independent UK

Prison attack that killed Ukraine PoWs a war crime, says Zelenskiy, amid calls for UN inquiry

Ukraine president says more than 50 people died, as Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of being behind attack on prison in Russian-occupied Donetsk

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Reuters

Ukraine appeals to International Criminal Court after prison attack

Ukraine's foreign ministry condemned an attack on a prison in territory held by Russian-backed separatists on Friday, and appealed to the International Criminal Court over what it said were Russian war crimes.

Mic

Trump proposed a solution to homelessness that’s basically a war crime

People should be forcibly moved to the “outer reaches of the cities,” he said.

The Independent UK

War crimes: How are they defined, investigated and punished?

International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has already announced an investigation into Russia’s conduct in Ukraine as invasion continues and atrocities are alleged in Bucha

France 24

Guterres says attack on UN in Congo may be war crime, asks for investigation

UN Secretary General António Guterres says the attack on UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo may be a war crime, according to a UN spokesperson.

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WEKU

How prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

Eli Rosenbaum spent his career hunting down Nazis after World War II. Now, he will use those skills to seek out war criminals in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Reuters

Ukraine grieves 4-year-old girl after Russian missile attack

A Ukrainian city far from the frontline grieved its dead from a missile strike, including a 4-year-old girl, as Russian bombardment rained down on towns across the country.

The Independent UK

Britain pledges help to probe Russian war crimes as report tells of ‘real-life horror story’ in Ukraine

Use of cluster ammunition by Vladimir Putin’s forces is ‘depravity itself’ says second OSCE report

ABC News

ADF report into alleged misconduct in East Timor warned of culture issues in special forces, years before claims of Afghanistan war crimes

An internal Australian Defence Force report explicitly warned of a "code of silence" and a culture of cover-up in the special forces, years before allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan emerged.

ABC News

Ukrainian women are reporting rape by Russian soldiers but is it a war crime, a crime against humanity or even genocide?

Across Ukraine, accounts of rape by Russian soldiers are growing. It is the 'most hidden' war crime and as the first rape case of the war begins in a Ukrainian court, human rights lawyers are working out how victims like Olha can get justice, and even if Vladimir Putin himself…

WEKU

Mariupol theater bombing was a clear war crime, Amnesty International says

Hundreds of civilians were sheltering in the drama theater during the March siege of Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city that Russian troops destroyed and now occupy.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russians behind 'War Crime' Bombing of Mariupol Theater, Says Amnesty

A theater sheltering civilians destroyed in March in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was likely hit by a Russian airstrike in a war crime, Amnesty International said in a report published Thursday. "Until now, we were speaking about an alleged war crime.

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