An independent report on the war between Russia and Georgia in August, is calling for an investigation into the conduct of all parties during the hostilities. The London-based human rights organization, Amnesty International, says it is concerned serious rights violations took place at the time.
Amnesty says all sides in the August conflict may have committed abuses. In its new report, Amnesty says Georgian and Russian forces and militia fighters in the breakaway South Ossetia region should be investigated for war crimes during the conflict.

Croatia won the right Tuesday to sue Serbia for genocide after the highest UN court ruled that it had jurisdiction in the case.
The decision marks the second time Serbia will face the allegation of genocide at the International Court of Justice. Bosnia also accused Serb forces of being responsible for genocide during the brutal conflicts that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Croatia alleged that Serb attacks that killed and displaced thousands of Croats during the 1991-95 war of Croatian independence was a form of genocide.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that he would seek arrest warrants for war crimes in Darfur including, for the first time, actions by Sudanese rebels.
The prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said the warrants would involve attacks on African Union peacekeepers in September 2007, in which 12 were killed. Speaking in The Hague, the prosecutor did not disclose the names and number of suspects, but earlier he had said that two rebel factions carried out the attacks.

A humanitarian disaster was predicted by aid officials in Congo last night if a fragile ceasefire ordered by commanders of a rebel army fails to hold.
Hundreds of thousands fled Goma, the regional capital, and the surrounding countryside in a mass exodus last week when Congolese Tutsi rebel forces commanded by the renegade general Laurent Nkunda captured several key towns and threatened to attack the strategic eastern city.

Laurent Nkunda is a former General in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is the President of Sudan.

More than 30 months after the history-making arrest of Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo – the first suspect to be sent to The Hague in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the newly-established International Criminal Court (ICC) – a question mark still hangs over whether he will ever face trial.
In July the ICC’s Trial Chamber ordered him released from custody. This week the court’s Appeals Chamber overturned that decision. What has gone wrong and what happens next? In this question-and-answer feature, the International Center for Transitional …