International War Crime Trial Blog

I recommend entering this blog from time to time. It has very serious cover of trials of people from all over the world for war crimes. Here are two examples: the first covers the story of the trial of Ali Hassan al-Majeed Saddam Hussein’s cousin and once one of the most feared men in Iraq.

Ali Hassan al-Majeed was sentences to death earlier this year for masterminding a genocidal military campaign against Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988 that killed tens of thousands. Gasim Mohammed, then a soldier in the Iraqi navy’s logistics department in the southern city of Basra, told the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad he had seen Majeed execute several men after he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the rebellion. “They made us stand in line and the two women started to … point out the involved ones. Every man they selected was immediately shot dead by Majeed. I remember him shooting two or three men with his own pistol.”

The other example is that of the trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor.

A former rebel fighter testified in the war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor on Tuesday that the RUF in Sierra Leone killed and raped civilians and burned their homes.

They certainly do a fine work in raising awareness to war crime trials all over the world and help make the world into a better place.