UN judges bring to end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars.
The 62-year-old was arrested this week near Cape Town after 22 years on the run.
Kayishema, indicted by a UN tribunal on Rwanda in 2001, is alleged to have orchestrated the killing of some 2,000 Tutsi.
An economic crisis as well as mass protests brought down Indonesia’s longtime leader and brought new freedoms.
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State media says group, including children, sent to prison for two to five years for not having documents.
The story of how Britain secretly used torture in its war against Kenya’s anticolonialist Mau Mau movement in the 50s.
German abuses of the Herero and Nama were the 20th century’s first genocide, a harbinger of the Nazis’ WWII Holocaust.
Tedros says food and health care being used as weapons in his home region in northern Ethiopia.
China claims ‘victory’ as UN Human Rights Council votes not to discuss allegations of abuses against minority Uighurs.
Essential Middle East explores the Bosnian election and fears of another war.
A trial is opened in The Hague against one of the last suspects sought by a UN tribunal for the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar says scale and scope of military’s abuses have expanded.
Essential Middle East discusses the recent court cases aiming to hold Myanmar accountable for genocide.
Some 740,000 Rohingya refugees fled persecution in Myanmar in August 2017 only to live in dire conditions in Bangladesh.
