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Afghan war crimes investigations get boost

More than 100 staff are now involved in a complex investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by Australian Defence Force personnel.

AAP

UN finds Russia responsible for 'vast majority' of potential war crimes in Ukraine

A United Nations commission found Russian forces were responsible for the "vast majority" of human rights violations in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, including attacks on civilians that were potential war crimes.

Reuters

Russia destroys power and water infrastructure across Ukraine

Russia has destroyed almost a third of Ukraine's power stations in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in what Kyiv and the West call a campaign to intimidate civilians.

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Protesters call for cancellation of ‘revisionist’ Serb film

Critics say new documentary on Republika Srpska ‘whitewashes’ war crimes committed by Serb forces in Bosnia.

Al Jazeera

Family of Brit 'unlawfully' jailed in Dubai call for probe into 'degrading treatment'

The relatives of 68-year-old Ryan Cornelius have submitted a request to the Met Police's War Crimes Team over what they claim to be a "breach of both international and UAE law"

Daily Mirror

‘Just as terrible’: Zelensky says scenes in liberated Kharkiv similar to Bucha and Irpin

Russia has been accused of carrying out a massacre in Bucha

The Independent UK

Top U.S. general suggests Russian strikes on civilians are war crimes

The top U.S. general on Wednesday condemned indiscriminate Russian missile strikes on Ukraine that killed civilians, suggesting they met the definition of war crimes under the international rules of war.

Reuters

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Russian missile strikes in Ukraine investigated as possible war crimes - prosecutor

Prosecutors for International Mobile Justice teams are investigating as possible war crimes the ongoing Russian missile strikes in Kyiv and cities across Ukraine that have so far killed at least 26 people, an official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Reuters

G7 say Russian missile attacks are ‘war crimes’ and it will hold Putin to account

Nations will back Ukraine in conflict ‘for as long as it takes’

Evening Standard

Russia Showers Ukraine with More Missiles

Russian forces showered Ukraine with more missiles and munition-carrying drones Tuesday after widespread strikes killed at least 19 people in an attack the UN human rights office described as “particularly shocking” and potential war crimes. Air raid warnings extended throughout the country for a second straight morning as Ukrainian officials…

Asharq Al-Awsat

G7 vows to hold Vladimir Putin to account for ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine

Liz Truss and allies condemned Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.

The Independent UK

Zelenskiy asks G7 for monitoring of Ukraine’s border with Belarus

Ukrainian president also asks for more air defence systems after new wave of Russian missile strikes

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian foreign minister: Russian attacks on energy facilities are war crimes

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia on Tuesday of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting energy facilities to create "unbearable conditions for civilians".

Reuters

Eastern NATO allies call Russia's Ukraine strikes 'war crimes'

Eleven members of NATO's eastern flank on Tuesday called Russia's recent bombing blitz across Ukraine a "war crime", adding that any nuclear threats were "unacceptable".

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Bucharest nine presidents say Russian bombardments in Ukraine are war crimes

Mass bombardments of Ukrainian cities by Russia constitute war crimes under international law, the presidents of the Bucharest Nine group of countries, accompanied by the presidents of North Macedonia and Montenegro, said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Putin must be held to account over despicable war crimes, says Sturgeon

The First Minister spoke of Scotland’s solidarity with Ukraine as she addressed the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Monday.

Radio France Internationale

Liberian civil war torture trial of rebel commander opens in Paris

A rebel commander during the first Liberian Civil War, Kunti Kamara goes on trial in Paris on Monday for crimes against humanity, torture, and acts of barbarity, including the enslavement of an entire community in Lofa County, northwestern Liberia.

The Independent UK

UK accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ after missile strikes on Ukrainian cities

Prime minister to speak with Zelensky and G7 leaders in emergency call

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The Independent UK

UK minister hits out at Russian ‘war crimes’ after attack on Kyiv

Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv early on Monday, with other Ukrainian cities also reportedly hit.

The Guardian - UK

Former Liberian rebel charged with war crimes awaits Paris trial

Kunti Kamara charged with torture, cannibalism and complicity in crimes against humanity during civil war between 1989 and 1996

The Independent UK

Putin appoints ‘brutal’ new senior commander for Ukraine war as Russian struggles continue

Sergei Surovikin feared to be responsible for potential war crimes in Syria and attacks on civilians in Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Nobel prize will give us ‘strength’, says Ukraine NGO head

Oleksandra Matviychuk says the prize will give them ‘more strength’ in their efforts to fight for human rights.

The Independent UK

Ukraine police say bodies of more than 500 civilians found in Kharkiv including children

Corpses showed signs of gunshots, explosions and torutre, Ukrainian official says

Al Jazeera

Ukraine governor says mass grave found in liberated eastern town

Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko says the exact number of bodies in the mass grave in Lyman is not yet known.

Reuters

Ethiopia rights probe extended after close vote at U.N. body

Countries voted on Friday to extend a U.N.-mandated monitoring mission for a war in Ethiopia where investigators have found "reasonable grounds to believe" that parties to the conflict have committed serious rights violations, including war crimes.

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