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DRC: A breach in impunity?
21.11.2016 - (Last modified: 17.05.2017)DRC: Developments in the Mutarule trial
07.09.2016 - (Last modified: 21.10.2019)Nepal: the shapes of impunity
06.09.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)MINOVA
03.06.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
For 10 days in 2012, the small village of Minova was the scene of a wave of violence: the villagers were victims of acts of mass rape, murder and pillage. The perpetrators of these atrocities were all members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and the Congolese National Police (PNC).
This case provoked a national outcry and 39 Stat...
Kibibi
17.05.2016 - (Last modified: 04.11.2016)
In early January 2011, a simple fight between two men in Fizi (South Kivu Province) degenerated when a group of soldiers belonging to the Congolese army launched an offensive against the civilian population. Several tens of victims reported acts of rape, pillage and murder.
Thirteen months later, nine soldiers – of whom Lieutenant Colonel Kibibi Mutware was the ma...
W. G.
16.05.2016 - (Last modified: 10.10.2016)
W. G. was a senior officer of the Afghan army and belonged to both the Presidential Guard and the Kabul Garrison (KHAD – the security and intelligence agency). In his 15 years of service, he particularly fought the Mujahideen and was involved in the arrest of prisoners of war. Several NGOs accused KHAD of systematically using torture.
On June 16, 2005, the Swiss A...
BiH: Criminal Code finally up to international standards following TRIAL's recommendations
22.05.2015 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
The Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted two days ago in urgent procedure important amendments to the Criminal Code. By recalibrating the crimes of torture, enforced disappearance and rape, the amended Criminal Code will help tackle widespread impunity, break the law of silence and provide justice and recognition to thousands of victims all across...
BiH: War crimes suspect arrested and soon tried
09.04.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
The French police have arrested Bosnian Serb citizen Radomir Šušnjar, a former member of a paramilitary group in Bosnia, wanted for war crimes. TRIAL led an investigation on this case since 2012, located the suspect and informed the French and Bosnian authorities. The arrest was carried out on April 4 at the request of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s authorities.
War crim...
Alternative reports submitted to the Human Rights Committee
01.12.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In December 2011, TRIAL and 16 associations of relatives of missing persons, of victims of sexual violence and of former concentration camp detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina from all sides, submitted a 51-page report following Bosnia and Herzegovina's own second periodical report before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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Two swiss authors deny genocide in Srebrenica: Criminal complaint filed
19.04.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Common press release by the Society for Threatened Peoples (Switzerland) and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against impunity)
In an article in the bi-monthly newspaper La Nation, two authors qualify the genocide in Srebrenica as a “pseudo-massacre.” In response, the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Swiss Association Against Impunity (TRIAL)...
Amendment of the Swiss Military Penal Code
19.12.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
Modification of the Swiss Military Penal Code
Press release of 19 December 2003 :
On Friday 19 December 2003, despite TRIAL's appeal to the Chambers and the signatures of 35 International Law professors, the federal Chambers formally adopted a revision of the Swiss Military Penal Code which will render Switzerland highly attractive to war criminals.
After...