‘An underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet’s surface’.
- Professor in International Law, Bournemouth University
The massacre of 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks in a few days in 1995 must never be forgotten.
Forensic science of the dead helps to convict the living responsible.
Establishing what happened to lost relatives and brutalised populations is a moral imperative.
When mass graves are disturbed, it makes it harder to find out the truth about what happened.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has not showered itself in glory of late. Long beset by accusations of bias and ineffectiveness, and with cases looking shaky, the front line of international justice…
As the events surrounding the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine become clearer, more and more voices are claiming the plane may have been shot down by pro-Russian separatists in eastern…
The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Independent newspapers have all run with the story that Charles Taylor is suing the British government over his right to a family life, bringing him rather more media…
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