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Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, including executions and sexual violence, says UN

Victims of sexual or gender-based violence aged from four to 82-years-old, investigators found

The Independent UK

UN rights experts cite signs of war crimes in Ukraine

A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body to look into rights violations in Ukraine says its initial investigation has turned up evidence of war crimes in the country following Russia’s invasion nearly seven months ago

The Independent UK

Investigation chief says Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine

War crimes including rape, torture, executions and confinement of children were committed by Russia in areas it occupied in Ukraine, the head of a U.N.-mandated investigation body said on Friday.

Reuters

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‘Even their remains should be in handcuffs’: Khmer Rouge vilified

Cambodians reflect after the UN-backed war crimes tribunal issued its final judgement on the regime’s brutal rule.

Al Jazeera

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict

U.N.-backed investigators say they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea’s military — including rape, murder and pillage — over the nearly two-year war on Ethiopia’s Tigray region

The Independent UK

Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan loses genocide appeal

Ruling marks the final decision by the court and ends 16 years of work by the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

Al Jazeera

Lavrov defends Russia at U.N. showdown rife with anger over Ukraine war

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended Moscow's war in Ukraine at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday as the United Nations warned Moscow against annexing Ukrainian regions and Western ministers called for accountability over atrocities.

Reuters

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Former Australian commando under investigation over 2012 Afghanistan rotation

A former special forces soldier is a target of a war crimes investigation for the alleged killing of at least one unarmed detainee in Afghanistan in 2012.

ABC News

UN General Assembly: A world 'in peril' as pressures of war and climate hit Africa

In tonight's edition: Senegal's Macky Sall takes to the stage at the UN General Assembly in New York and tells the world there are other crises to address besides the war in Ukraine. Also, authorities in Uganda declare an Ebola outbreak after a 24-year-old man dies of the disease, the…

France 24

U.S. attorney general, Ukraine's top prosecutor to work together on war crimes prosecution - Justice Dept

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland met with Ukraine's top prosecutor in Washington on Tuesday and agreed to work more closely together to prosecute individuals involved in war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, the Justice Department said.

Reuters

What really happened in the Ukrainian city of Izium under Russian occupation?

Last week, 450 graves were discovered in forests outside Izium after the Ukrainian city was recaptured from the Russians. Ukrainian officials claim that 99 percent of the exhumed bodies show signs of violent death. The Kremlin has denied the allegations as "lies", while the EU presidency has called for the…

Radio France Internationale

Kremlin Says Ukrainian War Crimes Claims Are a Lie

The Kremlin on Monday rejected allegations that Russian forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine's Kharkiv province as a "lie". Around 450 bodies - most of which Ukraine says are civilians - have been found in mass graves near Izium after Russian troops were this month forced out of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia says claims it carried out war crimes in Izyum are a ‘lie’

Ukraine’s leaders have accused Moscow of carrying out a ‘genocide’

The Independent UK

Kremlin says Ukrainian war crimes claims are a lie

The Kremlin on Monday rejected allegations that Russian forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine's Kharkiv province as a "lie".

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Russian torture chambers found in parts of Ukraine just liberated

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy compares Putin's forces to Nazis after investigators discover horrifying evidence of war crimes.

The National (Scotland)

MPs accepted 'shameful' trips and gifts from states fighting in Yemen war

MPS have accepted £828,211 in the form of all-expenses-paid trips funded by states in a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen’s war since 2015,…

Al Jazeera

EU calls for war crimes tribunal over Ukraine mass graves

EU presidency calls for formation of international tribunal for war crimes after some 450 graves found outside Izyum.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war - live: Russia ‘ramps up attacks on civilian targets after setbacks’

Attacks on civilian infrastructure increased "even where is probably perceives no immediate military effect"

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Outside a liberated Ukrainian town, inspectors search for evidence of war crimes

On the outskirts of the recently liberated town of Izium, investigators have found what Ukrainian officials are calling a mass grave. It is now being inspected for possible evidence of war crimes.

Tribune News Service

Blinken accuses Russia of war crimes as Ukraine cites mass grave

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the U.S. claim that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine amid reports that Ukrainian forces had uncovered a mass grave in the city of Izyum, while again pushing back against pressure to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

Reuters

'War crimes cannot be hidden,' top U.S. general says about Ukraine war

The top U.S. general on Friday said war crimes in Ukraine cannot be hidden, as Kyiv leveled fresh accusations against Russia following the discovery of a mass burial site in northeastern territory recaptured from Russian forces.

Reuters

Exclusive-Zelenskiy accuses Russia of war crimes, sees no early end to war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine's northeast and said it was too early to say the tide of the war was turning despite rapid territorial gains by his forces this month.

The Independent UK

Izyum mass grave latest in alleged Russian atrocities meted out to Ukrainians

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians as well as committing war crimes in Ukraine

France 24

Ukraine combs mass burial site in Izium, says signs of torture found

Bodies exhumed from a mass burial site near the easter Ukrainian town of Izium "showed signs of violent death", a Ukrainian official said on Friday in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called proof of war crimes by Russian forces. The discovery came as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi put pressure on…

Reuters

Prosecutors seek 35-year prison term for Kosovo ex-rebel accused of torture

War crimes prosecutors called on Monday for a former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla commander to be sentenced to 35 years in prison for allegedly running a "torture chamber" during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

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