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• - A Houston Chronicle special report on the failure to bring to justice the perpetrators of several war crimes is Rwanda, South Africa, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
  
• - Campaign of the Transnational Radical Party for the establishment of the ICC and support of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
  
• - Principal legal instruments, form the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
  
• - Short article about the definition of war crimes, and the prosecution of past war criminals.
  
• - Article exposing evidence of U.S. intelligence passing information to Indonesian war criminals and supporting butchery.
  
• - Background on accused Nazi war criminal Juozas Kisielaitis.
  
• - This section of CSCE (Helsinki Commission) is a part of the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. Government and monitors human rights in Europe. Hearings, resolutions in the US.
  
• - Belgian based association to study military law and promote the law of armed conflict that respects human rights. In French and English.
  
• - From UN Chronicle 35 (1998), by Anthony D'Amato.
  
• - Translated letters from Count Nikolai Tolstoy concerning his claims of war crimes by the British Government following the Second World War.
  
• - Features an online library of books and journals relating to war crimes around the globe.
  
• - Contains photos and archived reports from several human rights organizations on continuous killing where from 50,000 to 100,000 civilans have died or disappeared.
  
• - Gives a clinical definition of genocide and what makes it the worst crime against humanity.
  
• - Information, treaties, and legal materials, from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Includes the Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols.
  
• - Collection of news coverage from newspapers worldwide about war crimes tribunals from Nuremberg to the Hague.
  
• - International project aimed at highlighting the men and women who resisted crimes against humanity, inspired by Yad Vashem's Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem. Events, background, and related links.
  
• - Dedicated to raising awareness of the laws of war and war crimes among the media, policy makers, human rights and humanitarian aid workers, and the general public.
  
• - A book review of Geoffrey Robertson's history of modern human rights and the progress towards enforceable international laws against war crimes.
  
• - The Inforce Foundation investigates war crimes, crimes against humanity and extra-judicial killings. News and information on ongoing projects, lists of advisors and supporters, upcoming conferences and recommended reading.
  
• - Provides photos and background information on what it sees as a Turkish genocide by Greeks from 1919-1929.
  
• - A nonprofit organization which concentrates on the study, detection, and prevention of genocides. With news, law, research, education, and links.
  
• - Created by New York University and the University of London to address legal, institutional and financial issues on the increase of international courts and tribunals as well as their use.
  
• - Organization to protect rights of people around the world, to bring offenders to justice, prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom and to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime.
  
• - An Amnesty International resource on improving laws and resources to combat war crimes.
  
• - General and in-depth resources on genocide and related crimes against humanity.
  
• - International, non-profit organization that supports international war crimes tribunals and justice initiatives.
  
• - Includes background documents, news, and events on The Special Court for Sierra Leone to investigate and prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity there.
  
• - Redress is a London based, internationally focused non-profit legal/human rights organisation to help torture survivors use available international, regional and national remedies to obtain reparation and to campaign for effective remedies where they do n
  
• - This Australian site explores and debates international law issues arising out of the increasing use of military personnel in circumstances below the threshold of armed conflict.
  
• - Provides legal support and assistance in prosecuting individuals responsible for serious crimes and atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University.
  
• - From the Emory International Law Review 9.2, Fall 1995. Attempts to apply modern standards to Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the U.S Civil War.
  
• - Article in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law on relevant provisions, sentencing, circumstances, and objectives.
  
• - Global, Internet-based network of activists working to prevent the crime of genocide, providing information on international laws and penalties.
  
• - IICI is an international organization of professional investigators, military officers, lawyers and academics dedicated to training and deploying professionals in the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  
• - Conflicts happen around the world; Turkey is no exception. This site presents crimes, of equal if not greater magnitude to those committed in Turkey, all around the world.
  
• - Chronological list with perpetrators and approximate number of victims.
  
• - Opinion published in Village Voice Feature argues that the former U.S. secretary of state committed war crimes. By James Ridgeway with Ariston-Lizabeth Anderson and Sandra Bisin.
  
• - Asserts the former U.S. attorney general has become the tool of left-wing cultists who defend Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Rwandan torturers as anti-imperialist heroes.
  
• - Gives overview and references to several articles and essays advocating the indictment of Henry Kissenger for mass murders in Cambodia.
  
• - Lists American War Crimes against Humanity. Collection of articles from Vietnam War, Korea War, and Afghanistan War.
  
• - An award-winning educational and development charity founded in 1991, IWPR informs the international debate on conflict and supports the independent media in regions in transition. Long-time publisher of WarReport, IWPR produces several electronic reporti
  
• - A searchable database from the Avalon Project at Yale University on universally accepted means of conflict with historical treaties and agreements from the 18th to 21st century.
  
• - Reviews the experience of the international community in responding to complex emergencies around the world, examines the interaction between humanitarian action and political-military forces. Sponsored by Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts Un
  
• - Canadian Broadcast Company's site for war crimes in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.