News tagged with 'ethnic cleansing'. Found 3 tagged news.

World Court to hear Croatian genocide case

Belgrade :: Serbia | 13 days ago

The International Court of Justice ruled Tuesday it has jurisdiction to hear Croatia's charges of Serbian genocide during the breakup of Yugoslavia. The court, the highest legal body of the United Nations, will now consider whether Croatia's claim has...

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A people with a land

Tel Aviv :: Israel | 7 months ago

Posted by jesse.rosenfeld

As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations

Tags: land, Palestine, tel aviv, jaffa, settlement, occupation, israeli, occupied territories, intifada, gentrification, demolition, ethnic cleansing, popular committee

UN court acquits former Kosovo premier of war crimes, crimes against humanity

Priština :: Kosovo | 8 months ago

Ramush Haradinaj, 39, who was a leader of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army during the war, was due to be released from a UN jail and to return to Kosovo on Friday. He was acquitted on all 37 counts of the murder, rape and torture of Serbs. (AP) |

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