Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international war crimes probe, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka tells the BBC, a day after his release from jail.

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Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial enters its second day, with prosecutors focusing on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

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Mladic trial focus on Srebrenica

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday that he was “saddened” by the guilty verdict for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and said his role in the conflict was much different from how it had been portrayed.

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Charles Taylor blames woes on U.S.

Mladic seemed to taunt victims in court, pretending to slice his throat, staring and growling. The ex-Bosnian Serb general is on trial for war crimes stemming from Yugoslavia's civil war.

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Mladic ‘slices throat,’ growls at victims

Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor accuses the prosecution of paying witnesses to testify against him in his war crimes trial in The Hague.

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Taylor says witnesses ‘bought’

Ratko Mladic now faces eleven charges including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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VIDEO: Mladic set to face trial over Bosnia

Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam is charged by a special tribunal with alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.

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Bangladesh indicts Islamist chief

Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda says she does not want Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, accused of war crimes, to attend a summit in July.

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New Malawi leader snubs Bashir

As international envoy Kofi Annan negotiated a cease-fire in Syria, government forces raided opposition strongholds, killing and detaining residents in attacks amounting to war crimes, a rights group said Wednesday.

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Rights group reveals Syria ‘war crimes’

The soldiers of Charles Taylor, who on Thursday was found guilty of war crimes, ripped apart the lives of a reporter’s family members in the 1990s.

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People in Sierra Leone are awaiting the verdict of former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, 10 years on from the end of the civil war.

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VIDEO: Lasting scars of S Leone conflict

Omar Khadr, who pleaded guilty to war crimes, has yet to be transferred to Canada under his plea deal, and the delay may hinder similar deals with other detainees.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is aiming to start Gen. Ratko Mladic’s genocide trial March 27, but Mladic and his lawyer say they will not be ready. Presiding judge Alphons Orie said Thursday he aims to hold a pretrial conference March 26, with prosecution opening statements the following day. Read full article > >

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UN judges at Yugoslav war crimes tribunal aim for March 27 start for Mladic genocide trial

Ivory Coast’s ex-president appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday, the first former head of state to face judges at the world’s first permanent war crimes court. Laurent Gbagbo vowed to fight the charges against him.

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Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo Appears Before Int’l Court

Ivory Coast’s ex-president appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday, the first former head of state to face judges at the world’s first permanent war crimes court. Laurent Gbagbo vowed to fight the charges against him.

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Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo Appears Before Int’l Court