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06.08.2008
Onesphore Rwabukombe     Indicted     Germany     Rwanda
Onesphore Rwabukombe was born in Rwanda in 1957. During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Onesphore Rwabukombe was the mayor of the Municipality of Muvumba, in eastern Rwanda, and was a member of the local leadership of the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND). The MRND was in power and the party’s militia, the Interahamwe, played an important role in the genocide and, in particular, the carrying out of the massacres. Onesphore ...

02.05.2008
Djuradj Kusljic     Sentenced     Germany     Former Yugoslavia
In June 1992 the Serbs took over power in Vrbanjci, a municipality in northern Bosnia. Djuradj Kusljic, a Bosnian Serb, was appointed chief of the police station. He also occupied a leading position in the local army contingent. In the same month, the Serbs started terrorizing the Muslim population. The aim was to drive women and children away, and to kill or detain the male population. Kusljic knew that this campaign – which he supervised...

30.12.2007
Donald H. Rumsfeld     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Germany     Iraq
Donald H. Rumsfeld was born on 9 July 1932. He was a former pilot in the US Navy and already served as Minister of Defence in the administration of President Ford. He has also held positions as White House Chief of Personnel, United States Ambassador to NATO, Member of the American Congress and Chief Executive in two companies listed in “Fortune 500”. Donald H. Rumsfeld was Chief of the Defence Department in the government of President George ...

18.07.2007
Nikola Jorgic     Sentenced     Germany     Former Yugoslavia
According to findings of the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, Bosnian Serb Nikola Jorgic was the leader of a paramilitary group that took part in acts of terror against the Muslim population; the crimes were carried out with the backing of the Serb rulers and were designed to contribute to their policy of “ethnic cleansing”. Jorgic arrested Muslims and put them in prison camps where they were tortured; the Court also found that in June 1992, he t...

09.07.2007
Novislav Djajic     Sentenced     Germany     Former Yugoslavia
The case relates to the participation of Djajic in a shooting incident directed at 15 Bosnian Muslims on a bridge in his home town Trnovace near Foca (Bosnia-Herzegovina) on 22 June 1992. 15 Muslims were taken prisoner, executed, and then thrown in the river Drina. One of the persons targeted managed to escape and appeared at the trial as joint plaintiff and main witness for the prosecution. Novislav Djajic moved to Germany, where he worked...

04.02.2007
Zakirjon Almatovich Almatov     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Germany     Uzbekistan
As the Uzbek Minister of Internal Affairs (between 1991 and the end of 2005), Almatov was responsible for the police. He is accused of having ordered the use of torture in pre-trial detention in prisons under his control. According to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, torture is systematically used in Uzbekistan. Almatov is also believed to be responsible for the massacre on 13 May 2005 in Andijan. Security forces opened fire on a crowd o...

18.01.2007
Maksim Sokolovic     Sentenced     Germany     Former Yugoslavia
Maksim Sokolovic is a Serb resident of Germany. In May 1992 he took part in a Serb campign against the Muslim population of Osmaci. This campaign was part of systematic plan to displace or eliminate such population. For this purpose, the houses of the Muslim inhabitants were raided while the women and children were deported or sent to the border. The male population was physically mistreated or murdered and many of them were sent to deten...
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