War Crimes

By Shelley Inglis | – Remember former President Barack Obama’s infamous red line speech in 2012? In that speech, the president made it clear that the U.S. would not stand for the use of chemical or biological weapons by President Bashar al-Assad against opposition forces in Syria. But, despite subsequent evidence of the use of […]

Displaced and Refugees

World Court Rules against Buddhist Burma on Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

Human Rights Watch

International Court of Justice Unanimously Orders Measures to Prevent Genocide

Displaced and Refugees

It’s Not Just Vets: Refugees and War-Crime Victims are also Vulnerable to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Conversation

By Arash Javanbakht | – Mental health is often used in political discourse and arguments. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the subject Jan. 8, when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.), herself a Somalian refugee who had spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya, said: “Every time I hear conversations around war, I find myself being stricken […]

Displaced and Refugees

Syrian Kurds, abandoned by Trump, Face War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing at Hands of Turkey’s Fundamentalist Proxies

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch reports that the fundamentalist Arab fighters Turkey brought with it to the Kurdish regions of northeast Iraq are guilty of war crimes. In the area Turkey has militarily occupied, which it is pleased to call a “safe zone,” the Arab fighters stand accused of shooting down civilian […]

War

Trump’s Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

Rebecca Gordon

By Rebecca Gordon | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Memorial Day has come and gone and President Trump did not issue his pardons after all. There was substantial evidence that he was planning to use the yearly moment honoring the country’s war dead to grant executive clemency to several U.S. soldiers and at least one military contractor. […]

War Crimes

From Yemen to the Rohingya, Mass Atrocities against Civilians are the New Normal

Human Rights Watch

Whatever Happened to ‘Never again’?

Myanmar

Burma General on Hot Seat over charges Army Raped Rohingya Muslim Women

AFP

The UN has accused Senior General Min Aung Hlaing of numerous crimes

Syria

Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?

contributors

By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | – – Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, the US, UK and France agreed in principle that international action is needed to hold the perpetrators to account. But they didn’t make clear what form their action would take […]

Displaced and Refugees

Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

contributors

By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen] the transitional regime established after the 2011 popular uprisings, a regime which can roughly be described as intended to shift power from one […]