#war-crimes

#war-crimes

Ed Gein, nicknamed "The Butcher of Plainfield," isn't the only person to have fashioned household items from the remains of his victims. Ilse Koch, once called "The Witch of Buchenwald," also allegedly hand-picked Jewish prisoners and turned their bodies into lampshades. While these allegations remain unproven in court, Koch's cruelty is still legendary, which is why she plays a small yet important role in the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

As Syria turns the page after Bashar al-Assad's fall, the transitional government promises justice, truth, and rule of law.

"First of all, I think we want to acknowledge that there is a genocide going on in Palestine," she told RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland. "Every country has the right to self-determine, how to govern. "Hamas who I have condemned over and over, I have never been equivocal on it," she said. "They were elected by the people the last time there was an election. They are part of the civil society."

On Tuesday, Tribunal Judge Camilo Suarez ruled against seven former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a now-defunct guerrilla group known as the FARC. They were found guilty of kidnapping more than 21,000 people. Most were abducted to secure ransom payments that helped fund the FARC's war machine. Hostages were tortured, sexually abused, chained to trees and led on forced marches through the jungle. Some died of tropical diseases.

The latest break between the two foremost military and political leaders risks igniting civil war again for the embattled nation. South Sudan has started holding a trial for First Vice President Riek Machar, who has been sacked by his decades-long rival, President Salva Kiir, and charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in relation to rebellion and an attack by a militia linked with ethnic tensions.

The children were sleeping when death came from the air. A military warplane dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on their boarding school, witnesses said. Imagine, if you can, the carnage and the horror. At least 18 died. Others suffered life-changing injuries. The ruling regime claims to be fighting terrorists. Yet more often than not, it is defenceless, blameless civilians who are killed, maimed and displaced. No, this isn't Gaza. It isn't Ukraine. It's Myanmar, where appalling atrocities, including crimes against humanity, often go unreported.

The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016,

For Nick Maynard, a British doctor who has volunteered in Gaza several times, the United Kingdom's silence in action is a form of the government's complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. As a wave of early autumn rain poured over London on Thursday, he painted a harrowing picture of the injuries he witnessed Israel inflict on children, through aerial bombardment or gunfire, or by the deliberate restriction of life-saving infant formula and medicine.

Belgian authorities briefly held two Israeli citizens at an electronic music festival after pro-Palestinian groups accused them of war crimes, initiating an investigation.

In Gaza, talk of ceasefires, truces and pauses typically ends in tears. The sheer scale and depravity of war crimes and other conflict-zone atrocities is extraordinary.

The Palestinian Museum is redefining its role amid the war in Gaza, focusing on research, digital access, and international partnerships while balancing visitor access and collection protection.

Ehud Olmert described the proposed humanitarian city on the ruins of Rafah as a concentration camp, stating that forcing Palestinians inside would constitute ethnic cleansing.

"Literally every attack on a healthcare facility in Gaza has been justified by ... a willful misunderstanding of international law or just outright lies."

We have a territory that we are in, and the commands are: everyone that comes inside needs to die. No matter who it is.