French courts, today, detained a Rwandan genocide suspect who was accused of taking part in killings of Tutsis in the western town of Kibuye, reports Agence France-Presse.
The Dutch government announced today that it would give $28000 compensation to the families of there men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, reports the Associated Press.
South Sudanese paramilitary and government officials, said today that threats of further US sanctions did not worry them as their sides were not responsible for escalating the conflict situation in the region.
The South Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, Mawien Makol Arik, deemed sanctions unnecessary.
The United Nations Security Council will authorise an strengthened peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, this week, reports the Voice of America.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry, today, warned of tougher sanctions should Russia fail to withdraw it’s presence from Ukraine, reports the Associated Press.
Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said,
The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay, addressing the UN Security council today, outlined that Syrian government crimes outweighed crimes committed by opposition armed forces.
Drawing upon findings from the Syrian Commission of Inquiry, Pillay highlighted that although both parties had been found accountable for crimes, the two could not to be compared, reports Reuters.
The extradition of a man allegedly involved in the Rwandan genocide was authorised in a Norwegian court today, reports Agence France Presse.
The alleged criminal and former teacher, Eugene Nkuranyabahizi, is suspected of aiding massacres in the Rwandan regions of NKakwa and Cyahinda in April 1994.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking at the Rwandan genocide memorial events today, said he was ashamed of the way the situation was handled by the international community, stating,
Pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine yielded arms in one city and declared a separatist republic in another, as protests broke out in several eastern cities today.
Officials in Kiev told Reuters that the overnight seizure of public buildings in three eastern Ukrainian cities was a repeat of events in Crimea that resulted in the annexation of Crimea.
A leading member of South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) called for the international community to place further sanctions on individuals responsible for rights abuses and delaying a solution to the country’s conflict.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, noting that foreign peace=keeping troops were ‘overwhelmed’ warned of a potential genocide in the region.
Urging the international community to send more support to prevent an impending disaster, Ban Ki-moon, said,
The United States president, Barack Obama, signed an executive order today, authorising sanctions against any actors escalating conflict in South Sudan.
The order sets out a list of 12 offences that would warrant sanctions on all property and interests in property that are within or controlled by the United States.
The Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, in an interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the mass killings in Rwanda, accused France of participating in the 1994 genocide.
In an interview with the African daily, Jeune Afrique, Kagama denounced the ‘direct role of Belgium and France in the political preparation for the genocide.”
