Lubanga Chronicle #71 Truth or Lies? The Questions continue
Monday, 22 March 2010- Lubanga Chronicle #71 Truth or Lies? The Questions continue Prosecution Witness 15 continues giving evidence. Throughout his testimony, the witness has claimed that an intermediary who cooperated with the Office of the Prosecutor induced him to fabricate lies. Witness 15 gave a similar account when he appeared in court for the […]
Lubanga Chronicle #47 Participating Victim: “I want to take this opportunity to tell the world what happened and ask for reparations.”
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 For the first time in the history of international criminal justice, a victim takes the stand to give evidence in person. He has not been called by the Prosecution, nor by the Defence. He comes to this Court at his own request, “to tell the world” about the abuses that occurred […]
Sarkozy pays tribute to Rwanda genocide victims at Kigali Memorial Centre
25 Feb 10 – During his visit to Rwanda today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. There he laid flowers at the mass graves where over 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried, and observed a minute of silence in memory of the million dead, before touring the main exhibition, […]
British PoW who saved Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz joins survivors to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is […]
Worldwide rallies launch campaign to prevent war in Sudan
9 Jan 2010 – Today, thousands of activists gathered at events in 15 countries in a global coordinated effort, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a return to severe and widespread conflict in Sudan. See film of the London rally here. Sudan365 (www.sudan365.org), a year of campaigning for Sudan, has been […]
Lubanga Chronicle #46 UN Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy: “Do not ignore the central abuse perpetrated against girls”
Friday, 8 January 2010 After a long hiatus, the first trial before the ICC recommences with a clear statement: the Court must give justice to girls recruited by the militia of the accused Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for children and armed conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, took the stand […]
Aegis nominated for award
10 December 2009 – We’re very flattered to have been jointly nominated, with Redress, for the Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Awards. Both organisations have been put forward for: “For their pivotal role, through concerted lobbying, in obtaining key changes to British law relating to crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, and in obtaining justice for […]
Second Trial of Congolese militia leaders to commence Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children […]
Second Trial of Congolese militia leaders to commence Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Germain Katanga, alleged commander of the Force de résistance patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, alleged former leader of the Front des nationalistes et intégrationnistes, (FNI), are accused of three crimes against humanity (murder, sexual slavery and rape) and seven war crimes (using children […]
Home Office concedes that non-Arab Darfuri asylum seekers cannot be sent to Khartoum
3 Nov 09 – Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home […]