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09.02.2010 |  | | Ta Mok |  Died before end of trial |  Cambodia |  Cambodia |
Ta Mok (meaning grandfather Mok) was born in July 2006 in Takeo province, Cambodia. His birth name was Chhit Choeun.
Former Buddhist monk and student at the Pali High School in Phnom Penh, Ta Mok, was actively involved in the 1940s resistance movements against the French and the Japanese. Later, he joined the Cambodian Communist Party (CPK). His activity was concentrated in the southwest zone of the country. He was nominated member of the Cen... |
09.02.2010 | | Charles Taylor was born on 28 February 1948 in Arthington, Liberia. He completed his university studies in the United States, where he was arrested in 1979 for threatening to occupy the Liberian diplomatic mission in New York. He was President of Liberia between 1997 and 2003. His term in office was marked by rebellions and conflicts in the region.
The indictment issued by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) considered that during the pe... |
09.02.2010 | | Bahr Idriss Abu Garda was born in Nana, in the North-Darfour region of Sudan. He is a member of the Zaghawa tribe and is believed to be around 40 years old.
From January 2005 until 26 September 2007, Abu Garda held the vice-presidency of the Islamist armed group known as the Justice and Equality Movement (“JEM”), fighting against the pro-government armed groups. On 4 October 2007, he participated, together with others, in the formation of a n... |
09.02.2010 | | Ali Kushayb had been commanding thousands of Militia (Janjaweed) fighters by mid-2003.
According to the Prosecutor's evidence, he issued orders to the Militia and the armed forces to victimise the civilian populations through mass rape and other sexual offences, killings, torture, inhumane acts, pillaging and looting of residences and marketplaces, the displacement of the resident community and other alleged criminal acts.
The Darfur confl... |
08.02.2010 | | | Darko Dolic | Indicted | Bosnia Herzegovina | Former Yugoslavia |
Darko Doliæ, son of Jozo and Marta Doliæ, was born in Mostar on 11 April 1973. Upon completing Elementary School, he joined Military School. He is married and lived in Prozor. During the war, he became a member of the HVO (Croat Defence Council).
In the late afternoon of 4 August 1993, during the armed conflict between the Army of BiH and the HVO in the territory of Prozor Municipality, and as a member of the “Jastrebovi” sabotage reconnaissan... |
08.02.2010 | | Emmanuel Uwayezu is a Hutu Rwandese born in Muremera the 18 March 1962. He was the Director of the Kibelho College of Arts in the Southern Province where 80 Tutsi students, aged from 12 to 20, were killed by militiamen the 7 May 1994.
He allegedly committed various acts against the Tutsi students, as detailed in the NGO African Rights report issued in may, such as allowing some of them to spread ethnic hatred at the school, labelling all Tuts... |
08.02.2010 | | Vojislav Seselj was born in Sarajevo in 1954. He succeeded brilliantly with his law studies at the university there as well as at the University of Belgrade, where he obtained his Doctorate in 1979.
He started out as a communist but with the passing of time he adopted a critical attitude towards the regime. In 1984, he was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison for counter-revolutionary activities. However having support from Yugoslav d... |
08.02.2010 | | Hissène Habré was born in 1942 in northern Chad. He ruled the former French colony of Chad from 1982 until his ouster by the current President Idriss Déby and his flight to Senegal.
His one party regime was marked by widespread violations of human rights and mass campaigns of violence against his own people. On occasion he undertook persecutions by making collective arrests and committing mass murders against different ethnic groups, especial... |
05.02.2010 | | Tharcisse Muvunyi was born on 19 August 1953 in the Mukarange commune of the Byumba prefecture.
From 7 April 1994 until his departure from Rwanda, he held the post of Commander of the School for Non-Commissioned Officers (ESO). From his base in the Butare prefecture, lieutenant-colonel Muvunyi was the highest placed military officer in charge of security operations for both the prefectures of Butare and Gikongoro.
On 19 April 1994, the inve... |
04.02.2010 | | General Wiranto was born on 4 April 1947 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. At the time of the events, he was Commander in Chief of the Indonesian Army and Minister of Defence. He was relieved of these functions in February 2000 by President Abdurrahman Wahid and is now in retirement.
The accusations of criminal responsibility against him go back to the events which took place in East Timor in 1999. Around 1400 people were killed in the months leading... |
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