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The United States says that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The two sides "must end this brutal conflict... must comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, international human rights law," says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE
A demonstration is held in Stockholm ahead of the first testimony of a former Iranian prison official accused of handing out death sentences during a 1988 purge of dissidents in a landmark trial in Sweden. Hamid Noury, 60, has been on trial in Stockholm's district court since August on charges including murder, crimes against humanity and war crimes. They stem from the period between July 30 to August 16, 1988, when he was allegedly assistant to the deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near Tehran. IMAGES
The trial of a 100-year-old former concentration camp guard, the oldest accused of Nazi crimes ever tried in the country, opens in Germany. Josef Schütz, a former master corporal in the Waffen-SS's "Totenkopf" (Death's Head) division, is on trial for "knowingly and willingly" assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners when he operated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, not far from Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. IMAGES
Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES
Khartoum, Oct 6 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mohammed Abu Obaid) The trial against former Sudanese dictator Omar al Bashir for the coup that brought him to power in 1989 began on Tuesday in Khartoum with the reading of the charges he faces by the Prosecutor's Office after weeks of postponements and procedural incidents.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIAL.
Khartoum (Sudan), Sep 1 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Mohamed Abu Obaid).- The trial against the former Sudanese president, Omar Al-Bashir, and 20 other people for their role in a military coup in 1989 resumed on Tuesday in Khartoum.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIAL AND PROTEST OUTSIDE THE COURT.
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