Congo soldiers, militiamen, get life for war crimes
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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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A U.S. soldier was sentenced to life in  prison on Friday after his conviction on charges he tried to  aid al Qaeda by detailing ways to destroy U.S. weapons and kill  soldiers to undercover agents, the Army said.
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ISLAMABAD: A military court has convicted two soldiers, sentencing one to death and the other to life imprisonment, for involvement in an assassination attempt last year against Pakistan&#39;s President Gen Pervez Musharraf, the army spokesman said yesterday.
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A Mauritanian court hands life sentences to soldiers accused of plotting to overthrow the president three times.
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The Ugandan army tortured and unlawfully killed civilians while carrying out a disarmament program in the country's troubled Karamoja region, an international human rights group said Tuesday.
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A court Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Army soldier to 14 1/2 years in prison for his participation in the killing of eight Sarajevo Serbs during the 1992-95 war.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  - A military court has convicted two soldiers, sentencing one to death and the other to 10 years in prison, for involvement in an assassination attempt last year against Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an army spokesman said Friday.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., Feb. 22 -- A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 100 years in prison Thursday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family last year.
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A UN-backed court sentenced three former rebel leaders to prison yesterday, the first punishments handed down by the war crimes tribunal since it was set up five years ago after Sierra Leone's decadelong conflict ended. Alex Tamba Brima, 35, and Santigie Borbor Kanu, 42, were each given 50-year jail terms, while Brima Bazzy Kamara, 39, received ...
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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World News, KINSHASA - The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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A court in Equatorial Guinea has given sentences of up to 34 years to a group of South Africans and Armenians convicted of trying to overthrow the government.
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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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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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Government troops have been responsible for the worst atrocities of a simmering conflict in Central African Republic, burning down villages, executing civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, a human rights group said Friday.
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Seven former army officers and an ex-police official were convicted Tuesday and sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for human rights abuses during Argentina's bloody dictatorship.