UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab Urged to Refer Sri Lanka to International Criminal Court by Families of Disappeared
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UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab We specifically urge you this request after losing any hope to get justice for our disappeared relatives including our disappeared Babies and Children
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, urged UN Human Rights Council Member States to take steps to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court (ICC). ” Michelle Bachelet UN Highcommissioner for Human RightsLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, January 29, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ In a letter to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Families of the Disappeared have urged him to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ongwen was known as one of the more ruthless commanders of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He is from northern Uganda. His family indicates that he was born in 1980 and that the rebel group abducted him on his way to school in 1990, when he was about 10. Senior LRA leaders gave him military training, and he eventually became an LRA commander.
After LRA forces left northern Uganda in 2005 and 2006, troops under Ongwen’s command repeatedly terrorized communities in Congo’s Haut Uele and Bas Uele districts. His troops were responsible for some of the LRA’s most vicious attacks in the following years, including the Makombo massacre in 2009, one of the worst during the LRA’s long, brutal history. Troops under Ongwen’s command killed at least 345 civilians and abducted another 250, including at least 80 children, during a four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Congo.
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Monday January 25 2021 Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina in the pink inmate s uniform arrives from the Nyarugenge prison with Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) officers at the Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 25, 2020. PHOTO | SIMON WOHLFAHRT | AFP
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His high-profile arrest in August last year attracted international attention, while it also drew the ire of his family and international human rights organisations, which have insisted that he was illegally arrested and flown to Rwanda against his will.
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Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina will on Tuesday appear in court to answer to several charges related to terrorism, in a trial that is expected to draw international attention due to his global celebrity status.
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Professor M Rafiqul Islam becomes Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University
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Professor M Rafiqul Islam has been declared a Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University at its 498th Council Meeting held on 10 December, 2020. The Council members resolved unanimously to confer upon Professor M Rafiqul Islam the title of Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University. This is in recognition of his proactive teaching, outstanding research contributions, and the best higher degree research supervisor and administrator. This is a life-long affiliation and honour for his 30 years of active services, commitments, and loyalty to the university. Formerly, Professor Islam was the Chairman of Department of Law, Rajshahi University and also served different universities at home and abroad as a guest Professor.