Seven border guards were killed at Myadninkai checkpoint in 1991. Lithuania has issued European Arrest Warrants for three Russian citizens suspected of taking part in the killing of seven Lithuanian border guards and customs officers in 1991, shortly after they declared independence. The warrants for ex members of the OMON paramilitary police Andrey Laktionov, Cheslav Mlynnik and Aleksandr Ryzhov were... 

Up to 30,000 people chant anti-EU slogans in Zagreb’s main square. Up to 30,000 Croats took to the streets of the capital Zagreb over the weekend to protest against the jailing of two generals for war crimes in the Balkans wars on Friday. Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac are considered national heroes in Croatia. General Gotovina was jailed by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for 24 years,... 

An Israeli commando points a gun at activists on the Turkish ship Israeli naval forces stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters before dawn on Monday, killing up to 19 pro-Palestinian activists, most of them reportedly Turkish nationals. Some reports say that there were actually 20 people killed and at least 50 injured. The bloody ending to the high-profile mission to deliver supplies... 

This is yet another video of American war criminals surrounding then shooting to death an unarmed old man (video 5 minutes). Notice their fear as they circle around him and hear their shouts to shoot him down even though he is unarmed. Update: We have been notified by our readers that the old Iraqi man was actually not innocent at all. He was holding a grenade in his hand and he refused to put the... 

Interpol is looking for Israelis International laws are making it increasingly difficult for Israeli diplomats, intelligence officers, generals and even former top military officers to travel the globe without being arrested on international warrants. Judging by the sheer number of outstanding warrants, any Israelis deemed to have committed crimes against Palestinian civilians are now at a higher... 

Police in France have arrested Sosthene Munyemana, a Rwandan doctor wanted for genocide and war crimes. 45-year-old Dr Munyemana has been employed in a hospital in Bordeaux for the last eight years but he has been arrested on an extradition warrant from Rwanda. France and Rwanda have only recently restored diplomatic links between the two countries. According to AFP, France had earlier on in 2008... 

Israeli former minister Tzipi Livni faced a warrant for her arrest in Britain. Baroness Scotland announces plans to alter laws after attempts to obtain warrants against Israeli generals for war crimes. The government is determined to protect high-ranking Israeli officials from arrest in the UK, the attorney general said, as it emerged that a further visit by the Israeli military had been cancelled. Speaking... 

The U.N. General Assembly is likely to approve a resolution that urges Israel and the Palestinians to carry out independent investigations of alleged war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter within three months and calls for possible Security Council action if they do not. The 192-nation world body has scheduled a meeting Wednesday to consider a resolution adopted by the Geneva-based Human... 

Israel is denying Palestinians fair share to water while giving Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories unlimited supplies, Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday, October 27. “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor-quality subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely afford,” said Donatella... 

Bay Area residents attempted a citizen’s arrest of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while he gave a speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on 22 October 2009. Twenty-two people were arrested for challenging Olmert directly and demanding he be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Olmert has also faced protests at Tulane University,...