• Mladic: just another “false start”

• ICC second case ends in the shadows of Lubanga’s trial

• In or out - still no sense of justice

• ICTY: Gotovina’s attack on Knin was “legal” (defence)

• The smaller the fish, the bigger the rap

• Charles Taylor says war crimes courts are tools of the West

• “Dialogue is launched in Tunisia”

The only LRA trial in deadlock

by Mark Schenkel, Kampala

Compared to the vociferous campaign against Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, the silence surrounding the only LRA trial to date is deafening. Things are much quieter around Thomas Kwoyelo since his first court appearance in the town of Gulu in northern Uganda in July 2011.

Arrested three years ago in the DR Congo, Kwoyelo, a former LRA member, remains in detention, awaiting the outcome of a legal battle which will determine whether his trial will continue.

Losing civil parties in Cambodia

Soum Rithy spent two years of his youth being beaten and tortured in a Khmer Rouge jail between 1977 and 1979, after Pol Pot’s cadres mistook him for a soldier in the previous government. He saw his father die of disease exacerbated by the lack of modern medicine under the ultra-Maoist regime, while two brothers starved to death. His third brother, the youngest, had his throat cut by Khmer Rouge soldiers after he was caught stealing a papaya.

France & Rwanda on the reconciliation plane

“We cannot follow the proceedings at the Rwanda tribunal in Butare.” Lambert has no money to travel to Tanzania to witness the trial against alleged genocide suspects from 1994. The Rwandan would have loved to see the delivery of judgement against Arsène Shalom Ntahobali. He saw him at the university, seventeen years ago. “I would not recognise his face anymore,” he says. “But many people remember his crimes.”

By Thijs Bouwknegt, Arusha/Butare

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) expressed concern Thursday about post-election violence in Nigeria and said his office would investigate whether crimes had been committed.

"The office of the prosecutor is closely following the situation in Nigeria and is concerned with the outbreak of violence surrounding the National Assembly and presidential elections of April 2011," a statement said.

By Geraldine Coughlan, The Hague

Will the ICC have to investigate the situation in Libya now?

The referral by the UNSC does not automatically trigger an ICC investigation as the court operates independently of the

By Claire Wachira, Nairobi

The ICC has indicated that the warrants would be out before Christmas. In April, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office would investigate those most responsible for the violent clashes that took place after Kenya's December 2007 general election.

By Phil Clark

Nearly every Rwandan adult has participated in gacaca in some way, either as a witness, defendant or by attending weekly hearings. Under gacaca's plea-bargaining scheme, the vast majority of those

By Bram Posthumus

Harper, the capital of the Liberian county of Maryland, was a charming little town. Until 1990, when rebel troops entered. They killed, they raped, they looted and lived off the proceeds of the war whose central motto was: "Pay Yourself." The gang called itself the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). It was led