A US federal jury will determine whether former soldier Steven Dale Green should be executed for raping an Iraqi teenager and executing the girl and her family, court officials said.
It took the jurors less than two days of deliberations to find Green guilty on all 17 criminal counts, which included rape, premeditated murder and obstruction of justice.
Three other soldiers were given life sentences in the March 2006 atrocity that was devised over whiskey and a game of cards at a traffic check point in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay accused the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels of actions that may constitute war crimes and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. She said both parties are putting thousands of civilians at risk and is calling on them stop fighting immediately.
This is the toughest statement issued by the UN’s top human rights official on the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka. Navi Pillay said she is extremely alarmed at the increasing number of civilians reported killed and …

A college near the US city of Baltimore has suspended a Rwandan professor over accusations he participated in the African country’s genocide.
Leopold Munyakazi had been working at Goucher College near Baltimore under a programme for academics whose lives are threatened at home.
He has denied any involvement in Rwanda’s genocide.
Some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu militias in just 100 days in 1994.
Mr Munyakazi, a Hutu, told the Associated Press news agency that he had been persecuted by Rwanda’s government.
He said he had been held without trial …

The speaker of Kosovo’s parliament is demanding Serbia release 10 men accused of war crimes carried out by ethnic Albanian guerrillas.
Jakup Krasniqi condemned the arrests Saturday and said the Serbian action was meant to provoke the not yet year-old country.
Serbian police arrested the men Friday after searching the southern town of Presevo, a predominantly ethnic Albanian area. Serbian officials say the 10 had been members of the Kosovo Liberation Army and committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict.

Zimbabwe’s President is under renewed pressure as officers are told to quell any sign of mutiny by troops who rioted over pay Officers in the Zimbabwean army have been told by their superiors that they will be held responsible for any repeat of the riots in Harare last week, when the capital was rocked by soldiers rampaging through the city in anger at not being paid.
Furious rank-and-file soldiers smashed their way into black-market shops dealing in US dollars and snatched cash from illegal money-changers on the street, prompting hopes in …

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.

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 …