Ethiopia's Mengistu found guilty of genocide
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday after the 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest governments.
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Twelve men, including former members of the secret police, are found guilty of the murder of Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 13 -- A Catholic priest was convicted Wednesday of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people seeking safety were huddled inside.
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Saddam Hussein's trusted cousin and lieutenant is found guilty of Kurdish genocide.
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A court on Wednesday found Muslim Abdul Muhid guilty of inciting murder during a demonstration last year against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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A U.N. tribunal Tuesday convicted a former Rwandan military commander of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
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The United Nations' highest court is ruling Monday whether Serbia is guilty of genocide for the killing, torture, rape and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims &#151; the first time an entire nation is being held to judicial account for the ultimate crime.
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A former Rwandan army major was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian peacekeepers at the start of the Rwandan genocide.
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A U.N.-backed court Wednesday found three former leaders of a Sierra Leone junta guilty of war crimes, the first convictions stemming from the country's decade-long civil war.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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Ethiopia on Friday freed 38 opposition members jailed this week for inciting violence, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said, in a case critics say was politically motivated.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 -- An Afghan man accused of killing three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague in 2001 was found guilty on Saturday and sentenced to death. He had said that his gang was acting on the orders of a top Taliban commander.
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A Swiss court found a Turkish militant leader guilty Friday of denying the Armenian genocide, the first time Switzerland's anti-racism law has been applied to the World War I slaughter.
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Ethiopians are awaiting a verdict in the marathon genocide trial of former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam, who is accused of a plethora of brutal atrocities during his 17-year regime.
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A former Rwandan army chief was found guilty Wednesday of the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers protecting the then Rwandan prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
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Judges in The Hague found Milan Martic, who led a Serbian separatist rebellion in Croatia in the early 1990s, guilty of multiple crimes.
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The U.N.'s International Criminal   Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday acquitted former   Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and   incitement charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.