War justice at 'turning point'
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The international justice system is at a turning point, top war crimes prosecutors are told at a conference.
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HURRIYET- The recent murder of Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh marked a turning point for Europe.
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ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 29 -- An Australian who became the first person convicted at a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II left prison Saturday, apologetic for "what he's supposed to have done and what people believe he's done," his father said.
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A Court in The Hague issues an even-handed decision in a 10-month trial over the Balkans War. Why it is exacerbating old tensions in the region.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The historic opening last week of U.S. military commissions that  have not been used since World War II was marked by twists and turns and a carefully crafted defense strategy designed to bring the cases against suspected terrorists into the American court system.
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The judge in the court martial of three UK soldiers accused of abuse in Iraq appeals for an end to public statements.
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The U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo have betrayed the principles of fairness that made the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg a judicial landmark, one of the U.S. Nuremberg prosecutors said on Monday.
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Prosecutors, judges and juries are increasingly prodded to assess the role of combat trauma in crimes by veterans.
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The death or long-term incapacitation of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be a turning point in Middle East history. It could suddenly remove an obstacle to peace or unleash a bloody power struggle among Palestinians factions.
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Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants will take a step closer to trial in the coming weeks but don't expect an O.J. Simpson-style courtroom drama, a Western legal expert involved in the process said on Wednesday.
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To some international legal experts, Joseph Kony, commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, should be turned over to the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants for him and four top commanders for war crimes during his 21-year guerrilla war.
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THE HAGUE, Dec. 8 -- A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly month-long hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.
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Parliament has voted for an amnesty for leaders accused of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, arguing that it would help heal the deep divisions in Afghanistan.
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MANNHEIM, Germany  - A U.S. soldier at the center  of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal wants his pending court  martial to be moved from Baghdad as he believes he has no  chance of a fair trial there, his lawyers said on Monday.
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LONDON, Oct 16 (IPS) - The meeting on 'The Faultline in British  Politics' at the opening of the European Social  Forum in  London Friday came to resemble at least a little the frontline in  Iraq. Civil  society seemed at civil war.
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The long-awaited testimony this afternoon of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, once seen as a potential turning point in war policy, seemed more like an exercise of kicking the can down the road.
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A ruling by a U.S. Army panel could lead to the overturning of one of the largest courts-martial of World War II.