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"We are concerned that war crimes are being committed. We are concerned about the collective punishment of Gazans in response to the atrocious attacks by Hamas, which also amounted to war crimes," UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says during a press conference in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
The International Criminal Court throws out an appeal by Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, against his conviction for war crimes. Dominic Ongwen, who was himself abducted aged nine by the rebel group led by the fugitive Joseph Kony, was found guilty last year of murder, rape and sexual enslavement in northern Uganda during the early 2000s. SOUNDBITE
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
Widows of Srebrenica and Muslim survivors of the 1995 massacre committed in the Bosnian town watch the live broadcast of the appeal verdict of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic. Mladic was definitively sentenced by international justice to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. IMAGES
Israel's recent barrage of deadly air strikes on Gaza may be war crimes, the UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet says addressing a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council SOUNDBITE