International & Transnational Criminal Law

The Last Nuremberg Prosecutor

 

No, that headline isn't the name of a movie starring Ben Affleck. The BBC has posted recent video and radio interviews with Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving lawyer who was involved in the post-WWII core crimes prosecutions in Germany (specifically the famous Einsatzgruppen Case). Ferencz made a number of contributions to the ICL literature over the years, and is definitely worth listening to.

 

Fresh Allegations of Afghan Detainee Mistreatment

 

CBC is reporting that new allegations of war crimes and mistreatment of detainees by Canadian military police and commanders in Afghanistan have surfaced, and are being dealt with by the Military Police Complaints Commission. The events appear to have taken place in 2011, and troublingly echo past apparent misdeeds by Canadian forces in Afghanistan, which were never properly dealt with by the federal government and led to stalemated litigation in the Federal Court.