Ethiopian ex-dictator Mengistu convicted of genocide
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An Ethiopian court has convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam of genocide for atrocities committed during his 1974-1991 Marxist regime after a marathon 12-year trial.
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MEXICO CITY, July 12 -- A Mexican court ruled Thursday that a 1968 student massacre was genocide because government officials plotted to "exterminate" demonstrators, but the court cleared former president Luis EcheverrÃÂ­a of involvement.
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Ethiopia has pardoned 38 opposition politicians and activists sentenced to various prison terms, including life, for inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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A Swiss court found a Turkish militant leader guilty Friday of denying the Armenian genocide, the first time Switzerland's anti-racism law has been applied to the World War I slaughter.
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A former lawyer for a well-known Holocaust denier was convicted of incitement in Germany on Monday for denying the genocide herself and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, July 16 -- An Ethiopian judge handed life sentences  instead of the death penalty to 30 of the country's top political opposition leaders Monday in a trial  the prisoners have called a sham.
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The only person to go to jail in Indonesia for the 1999 violence in East Timor has been cleared on appeal. Abilio Soares, governor of the then-Indonesian province, had been found guilty of crimes against humanity.
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The U.N.'s International Criminal  Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesday acquitted former  Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and  incitement charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.
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A Belgian court found a former Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the early days of the African republic's 1994 genocide.
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A U.N. tribunal sentenced the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament Wednesday to 27 years in prison for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
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A Bosnian Serb general who ordered the relentless shelling, sniping and indiscriminate terror that rained down on Sarajevo during the final phase of a 44-month siege, was convicted of war crimes Wednesday and given a 33-year prison sentence.
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A Rwandan doctor and one-time possible presidential candidate has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, human rights groups said Wednesday.
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A Swiss court on Friday found a Turkish militant leader guilty of denying the Armenian genocide, the first time Switzerland's anti-racism law has been applied to the World War I slaughter.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor found guilty of genocide is released after serving his sentence.
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An Ethiopian court found exiled former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes yesterday by a UN-backed court -- the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
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NAIROBI, June 11 -- An Ethiopian court found 38 prisoners guilty Monday of charges ranging from "outrage against the constitution" to aggravated high treason in a trial the prisoners called a sham, and which international human rights groups have roundly condemned.