war crime

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Bangladesh

SC acquits ex-AL leader Mobarak Hossain in 1971 war crimes case

On 24 November 2014, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Mobarak to death for one charge and life imprisonment for another

Scenes of destruction in Iran following reciprocal airstrikes. Photos: Reuters
Middle East

Iran accuses Israel of targeting hospital, calls it 'war crime'

FILE PHOTO: Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint, as Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel's restrictions to Gaza aid may be war crime, says UN rights office

The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass grave, after they were transported from Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for burial, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 22. File Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Israel accused of more war crimes after 30 bodies found in Gaza school

Starved prisoner's, nearly dead from hunger, at one of the largest Nazi Concentration camps at Evensee Austria, in the Austrian Alps, on 7 May 1945. Many were starving to death and inmates were dying at the rate of 2,000 per week. The camp was reputedly used for 'Scientific' experiments. It was liberated by the 80th Division, US Third Army. (AP Photo, File)
World+Biz

How genocide officially became a crime, and why South Africa is accusing Israel of committing it

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Court

SC reduces war criminal Shamsul Haque's life sentence to 10 years

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Thoughts

A war crime is when . . .

A satellite image shows Nova Khakovka Dam in Kherson region, Ukraine June 5, 2023. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS
Politics

European Parliament terms Kakhovka dam destruction war crime; calls on Nato to invite Ukraine

A wounded Ukrainian soldier reacts as he is treated by medics inside a frontline stabilisation ambulance, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location near the frontline town of Kreminna, Ukraine March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
Europe

Russia, Ukraine battle for Bakhmut as ICC seeks war crime arrest warrants

6 sentenced to death for war crimes in Mymensingh
Court

6 sentenced to death for war crimes in Mymensingh

Local residents celebrate after Russia's retreat from Kherson, in central Kherson, Ukraine November 13, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Europe

Zelenskiy says investigators document more than 400 Russian war crimes in Kherson

FILE PHOTO Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup, presides at an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. REUTERSStringerFile Photo
South Asia

Myanmar military defends deadly air strike after accusations of war crime

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees hold placards as they gather at the Kutupalong Refugee Camp to mark the fifth anniversary of their fleeing from neighbouring Myanmar to escape a military crackdown in 2017, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2022. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman/File Photo
Rohingya Crisis

UN investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information