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Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk pizzeria

War crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, 37, became the 13th person to die from the attack

Evening Standard

Putin claim that Russia funds Wagner group may make it easier to try him for war crimes

Admission that Russia paid 86bn roubles to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries this year is potentially significant, say legal experts

The Guardian - UK

Russian politician charged with war crimes over alleged deportation of orphans from Ukraine

Ukraine claims more than 19,000 children have been illegally deported over the course of the war

Evening Standard

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Govt criticised for slowing ex-soldier's war crime case

A former SAS soldier facing a war crime charge has complained that he has yet to see a single piece of evidence despite 99 days passing since his arrest.

AAP

The International Criminal Court is unlikely to prosecute alleged Australian war crimes – here's why

For the first time, Australians have been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation into alleged Afghan war crimes.

The Conversation

Australian senator invites International Criminal Court to probe officers in war crime allegations

A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid pressure Australia into launching its own review

The Independent UK

Australia’s military should be held to account – but it’s the individual soldier who pulls the trigger

Calls for ‘higher ups’ to shoulder blame for alleged war crimes must take into account the complex nature of operational command and control

The Guardian - AU

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Ukraine and Myanmar make 2022 most violent year in a decade for medical staff

Report demands accountability for war crimes and singles out Russia for ‘mind-boggling’ targeting of hospitals in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Thousands face evacuation after destruction of huge Ukraine dam blamed on Russian forces

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky calls attack on dam a ‘war crime’ and the ‘largest manmade environmental disaster in Europe in decades’

The Independent UK

Explainer-Ukraine dam: When do attacks on civilian installations amount to war crimes?

The Geneva Conventions and its protocols explicitly ban war-time attacks on "installations containing dangerous forces" such as dams due to the risk posed to civilians, a prohibition likely to come into focus after the destruction of a huge Ukrainian dam.

Reuters

Ukraine investigating dam blast as war crime, prosecutors say

Ukraine is investigating the blast at a major hydroelectric dam in the south of the country as a war crime and as possible criminal environmental destruction, or "ecocide", the office of its prosecutor general said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Australian decorated hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his corporate job after a civil court blamed the national hero for unlawfully killing four Afghans and escalated calls for him to be stripped of his revered Victoria Cross medal

The Independent UK

'A war crime has been censored': Truth revealed about a WWII massacre on Bangka Island

Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a wartime massacre, but the full extent of the horrors she experienced is only now being told.

ABC News

Australia’s most decorated living soldier committed war crimes, judge rules in defamation case

Victoria Cross recipient loses civil defamation case as judge finds a number of murder allegations by newspapers ‘substantially true’

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Ben Roberts-Smith: Australia’s most decorated living soldier loses war crimes defamation case

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost a defamation case in which three newspapers accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan.

WEKU

Australia's most decorated soldier loses defamation case for alleged war crimes

An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Australian judge rules in civil court war crime allegations against hero soldier proved

A judge in a civil case says a decorated Australian veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s trial of the century: defamation case pitting the media against Victoria Cross soldier

Three newspapers accused Ben Roberts-Smith, recipient of Australia’s highest military honour, of war crimes – now the five-year court case is coming to an end

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The Independent UK

Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent work with Australia's SAS

Australia’s defense force chief says the U.S. government has warned that allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could prevent U.S. forces from working with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment

Al Jazeera

‘War crime’: Israel forcibly transfers Palestinian village

The 200 residents of Ein Samiya were forced to leave their land after years of Israeli settler and army violence.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes defamation verdict to be delivered on Thursday 1 June

Australia’s most decorated soldier will learn the outcome of his case against three newspapers over Afghanistan allegations, including the murder of civilians

Reuters

US concerned over UN official's meeting with Russian wanted by the ICC -State Dept

The United States is "deeply concerned" by a meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia's ombudsman for children's rights, who is wanted by the world's permanent war crimes court, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday.

Reuters

UN official criticised after meeting Russian sought by ICC

Rights groups and the top U.S. justice envoy on Saturday criticised a meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia's ombudsman for children's rights, who is wanted by the world's permanent war crimes court.

Al Jazeera

ICC war crimes prosecutor ‘wanted’ in Russia over Putin warrant

International Criminal Court member states ‘deeply concerned’ by Russian decision to put Karim Khan on a wanted list.

Radio France Internationale

France's highest court upholds right to investigate Syrians on French soil suspected of war crimes

France's highest court has ruled that the country can try foreign suspects under the universal jurisdiction principle. The decision enables inquiries into two Syrians accused of war crimes arrested in France.

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