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Tag: war crimes

Posted inUnited States

Gobal precedents for the abduction of enemy kids

by Marcia Zug May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina Allegations have emerged recently that Ukrainian children are being forcibly removed from their country by Russia. Once there, they are put up for adoption. These tactics are horrific, but far from rare. There is a long history of military aggressors forcibly transferring enemy children from their home countries as […]

Posted inOpinion

West sleepwalking into Syria-like disaster in Ukraine

by Nicolas Tenzer May 3, 2022May 6, 2022
Posted inOpinion

The nastiness of thermobaric weapons

by Michelle Bentley March 3, 2022March 3, 2022
Posted inUkraine

After peace talks collapse, Russia ups the war ante

by Andrew Salmon March 1, 2022March 4, 2022
Posted inAustralia

Killer elites: Why top soldiers are prone to murder (Part 2)

by Andrew Salmon December 8, 2020December 11, 2020
Posted inAnalysis

Killer elites: Why top soldiers are prone to murder

by Andrew Salmon December 7, 2020December 10, 2020
Posted inAfghanistan

ICC judges: Go ahead with Afghan war crimes probe

by Jan Hennop March 6, 2020March 6, 2020
A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber flies over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek
Posted inAfghanistan, South Asia, United States, World

Trump threatens Afghan Armageddon

by Nick Turse January 12, 2020February 18, 2020
Posted inAfghanistan, Iraq, Middle East, South Asia, United Kingdom, United States, World

How to commit war crimes and get away with it

by Vijay Prashad November 27, 2019February 18, 2020
Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel in Inn Din village September 1, 2017. Handout via REUTERS
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Action to end Myanmar war crimes urged

by Khin Ohmar September 19, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inJapan, Northeast Asia

Japan’s ongoing battle over war commemorations

by Jake Adelstein August 15, 2019February 18, 2020
An image grab from propaganda video released by ISIS shows fighters with the trademark Jihadists flag. Photo: AFP
Posted inEuropean Union, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, World

Europe’s tribunal plan is about geography, not justice

by Faisal Al Yafai May 26, 2019February 18, 2020
Afghan commandos. Photo: Reuters/Nasir Wakif
Posted inAfghanistan, Middle East, South Asia, Syria, World

CIA oversees grisly war crimes in Afghanistan

by Asia Times staff January 1, 2019February 18, 2020
In this 2008 file photo, an Iraqi woman whose husband was murdered by Blackwater security guards
sits with her children during a meeting with US Federal prosecutors to discuss the case against the security firm at the central police station in Baghdad. Photo: AFP
Posted inFrance, Iraq, Middle East, World

Baghdad massacre: former Blackwater guard found guilty

by Asa Times staff December 20, 2018February 18, 2020
Image: iStock
Posted inAfghanistan, France, South Asia, World

Trump to review case of soldier charged with killing Afghan

by Asia Times staff December 17, 2018February 18, 2020
Nadia Murad (L) and Lamia Haji Bashar, public advocates for the Yazidi community in Iraq and survivors of sexual enslavement by the Islamic State jihadists, are awarded laureates of the 2016 Sakharov human rights prize at the European parliament in Strasbourg in 2016. Photo: AFP/ Frederick Florin
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Human Rights Day: fighting indifference with justice

by Vijay Prashad December 12, 2018
The International Criminal Court at the Hague, Netherlands. Photo: iStock.
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania

Netherlands appeals Indonesian independence war verdict

by Asia Times staff December 11, 2018February 18, 2020
Korean boy band BTS at the 32nd Golden Disc Awards on January 10, 2018. Photo: Wikipedia
Posted inGermany, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Apology accepted, BTS; now, what about Japan?

by Chang H. KIM November 15, 2018November 16, 2018
Yemeni children vent anger against Riyadh and Washington on August 13, 2018, as they take part in a mass funeral in the northern Yemeni city of  Saada, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, for children killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition last week. Photo: AFP / Stringer
Posted inEuropean Union, France, Lebanon, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Turkey, World

Surgical strikes: what attacks on Yemen and Khashoggi’s demise have in common

by Jefferson Morley October 24, 2018
Map of Sri Lanka: iStock
Posted inFrance, India, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Is Sri Lanka’s Tamil cause a political football?

by Ana Pararajasingham October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

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