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Khmer Rouge chief gets 35 years

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:52:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com (video) Phnom Penh, Cambodia (GenevaLunch.com, agencies) – Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was sentenced Monday 26 July to 35 years in prison with five years off for time served. Duch, age 67, was the man who ran Cambodia’s notorious S-21 prison where some 15,000 people died under the Khmer Rouge regime that saw one-quarter of [...]

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US legal advisor says Washington wants to sign cluster munitions protocol

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 12:10 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The US intends to negotiate a legally binding protocol on cluster munitions under the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), says Harold Hongju Koh, legal advisor to the US Department of State. Koh told a meeting on the Geneva Conventions at the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Monday [...]

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Sixty years of Geneva Conventions honoured 12 August – call for greater observance

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Click on images to view larger Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – When the second world war came to an end in 1945 it was clear to witnesses of the more than six years of massive abuses of human rights that the world needed to banish the idea of “total war” and find a way to protect [...]

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