Special Court Convicts 3 of Sierra Leone War Crimes
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, June 20 -- Three former military leaders in Sierra Leone were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by a U.N.-backed court, the first verdicts stemming from the country's 10-year civil war.
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Three men who admitted violating South Africaâs anti-mercenary laws for their role in an failed coup in Equatorial Guinea were ordered to pay fines or go to prison today.
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A Jordanian military court convicted three Syrians and one Iraqi Thursday and sentenced them to death for firing rockets at two U.S. warships in August 2005.
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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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They were convicted one after another Â four U.S. soldiers who helped gang rape and kill a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in one of the war's worst atrocities.
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"It's a very important day, a day we have been waiting for the last 13 years."  The verdict is the culmination of a 13-year wait for justice A former Rwandan army major has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers in the early days of the 1994 genocide. via BBC
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They were convicted one after another  -  four U.S. soldiers who helped gang rape and kill a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in one of the war's worst atrocities
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A Russian court granted an  amnesty to three policemen who were charged with negligence for  failing to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre, in which  331 people died.
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A court in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region has sentenced three militiamen to death and six others to up to five years in prison for murder and pillage, the Sudanese Media Centre said on Sunday.
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The UN-backed war crimes court for Sierra Leone sentences three rebel leaders to long prison terms.
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Â· Ex-ruler of Liberia accused of crimes in Sierra Leone  Â· Taylor is first African leader to face prosecution
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Thirteen Congolese army soldiers and four former militia fighters have been sentenced to life imprisonment in separate war crimes convictions by local military authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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An Italian court acquitted three north Africans of international terrorism charges linked to the alleged recruitment of suicide bombers to be sent to Iraq, ruling that the men were guerrillas, not terrorists.
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A Belgian court found a former Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the early days of the African republic's 1994 genocide.
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A US soldier was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison for killing a wounded Iraqi teenager. The day also saw insurgent attacks in several cities, killing at least 10 Iraqis and one US marine.
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Two Russian officers were convicted by a military court Thursday of killing three construction workers at checkpoint in Chechnya.
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An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that reverberates on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.