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  1995 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 13 - A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity.
August 6 - Hundreds in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Washington, and Tokyo mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb.
November 16 - A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1995   (4336 words)

  
 war crimes
Voluminous evidence was presented to prove the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations (especially the Jews), the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of prisoners of war.
In 2000 the Hague tribunal officially established rape, which was rampant during the Yugoslav civil strife, as a war crime.
A UN tribunal was also set up in Tanzania to try those responsible for Hutu massacres of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 and in Sierra Leone to try persons accused of atrocities in that country's civil war (1991–2001).
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0851450.html   (1082 words)

  
 Frederick K. Cox International Law Center War Crimes Research Portal - Research Guide
The Statute of the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia expanded the definition of crimes against humanity to include rape, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
The preeminent print source for the Tokyo tribunal is The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial...
The aforementioned tribunal websites are implicitly relevant current awareness sources.
www.law.case.edu /war-crimes-research-portal/res_gd.asp   (3209 words)

  
 David Held, Violence, Justice and Law
The Tribunal laid down, for the first time in history, that when international rules that protect basic humanitarian values are in conflict with state laws, every individual must transgress the state laws (except where there is no room for 'moral choice', i.e.
Modern international law has generally endorsed the position taken by the Tribunal, and has affirmed its rejection of the defence of obedience to superior orders in matters of responsibility for crimes against peace and humanity.
The Yugoslav tribunal has issued indictments against people from all three ethnic groups in Bosnia, and is investigating crimes in Kosovo, although it has encountered serious difficulty in obtaining custody of the key accused.
www.theglobalsite.ac.uk /press/112held.htm   (6302 words)

  
 International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals June 3 in History
International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals June 3 in History
International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
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www.brainyhistory.com /events/1946/june_3_1946_106959.html   (50 words)

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