16 Mar 11 - A Peruvian man, who has not been named, was arrested in Devon yesterday on suspicion of involvement in torture and crimes against humanity committed by government-backed death squads targeting guerrilla groups in Peru in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is the first person to be arrested since loopholes [...]
8 Mar 2011 - Following media reports that African mercenaries were used to suppress demonstrations in Libya, and particularly since the Sudanese Government claimed that Darfuri rebels were involved in the violence, fears have been growing among Darfuris in the UK for family and friends in the country. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese live in Libya, [...]
11 Jan 2011 - In today's Foreign Policy magazine the Aegis Trust and Frontier Economics write about their report The Cost of a Future Conflict in Sudan. Even as Southern Sudan votes in an independence referendum this week, the fear of war hasn't entirely faded away. The south is likely to vote to secede from [...]
9 Sep 2010 - Foreign Policy Article by the Aegis Trust's Head of Campaigns Nick Donovan The film Marathon Man is one of the great paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, infamous for the scene in which the Nazi dentist played by Lawrence Olivier drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth into his live nerve below, repeatedly asking "Is it [...]
4 June 2010 - Rob Waugh of the Yorkshire Post has done a sterling job in using Freedom of Information requests to uncover the numbers of suspected war criminals who have been turned down on their application for British citizenship. The raw numbers are below. This is the first time that the Government has provided [...]
Following lobbying by the Aegis Trust, one party has pledged to pursue a specialist convention on Crimes Against Humanity. In its election manifesto the Labour party writes: "We will advocate a new international convention to enable the prosecution of perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity." A specialist crimes against humanity convention would, like the [...]
Monday, 22 March 2010- Lubanga Chronicle #71 Truth or Lies? The Questions continue Prosecution Witness 15 continues giving evidence. Throughout his testimony, the witness has claimed that an intermediary who cooperated with the Office of the Prosecutor induced him to fabricate lies. Witness 15 gave a similar account when he appeared in court for the [...]
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 For the first time in the history of international criminal justice, a victim takes the stand to give evidence in person. He has not been called by the Prosecution, nor by the Defence. He comes to this Court at his own request, "to tell the world" about the abuses that occurred [...]
25 Feb 10 - During his visit to Rwanda today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. There he laid flowers at the mass graves where over 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried, and observed a minute of silence in memory of the million dead, before touring the main exhibition, [...]
26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is [...]