Its late founder, a Mussolini fan, was accused but never charged as a war criminal.
Russia has said that its prosecutors are collecting evidence in South Ossetia with which to indict Mr Saakashvili as a war criminal.
That in itself wouldn't create a problem per se, but any continued contact with someone that the U.N. identifies, basically, as a war criminal, are going to be, it's going to make it a sensitive issue.
Earlier this month former prime minister Ehud Olmert - who during his tenure in office offered the Palestinians more than any of his predecessors - could barely get a word in edgewise above the clamor of students at the University of Chicago cursing him as a war criminal.
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Bronfman and the WJC also helped in the campaign to identify Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general and president of Austria, as a Nazi war criminal.
According to the AP report, a British barrister who showed up bareheaded that day might have done so in part because he once had his wig mocked by a Serbian war criminal.
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Dodd reminded colleagues that his father, Thomas, who was also a senator, once served as a prosecutor at the Nazi war criminal trials in Nuremberg, Germany.
If snatching an indicted war criminal requires a shoot-out certain to reignite hostilities, as has been claimed in Bosnia, then the court's reach will necessarily be limited.
They are now a major criminal group, at war with various old allies, including La Familia and the Gulf cartel.
In 1985, American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed from a graveyard in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.
The International Criminal Court has said the destructive binge could constitute a war crime, and is considering an investigation.
He is a prominent criminal defense attorney who has accused prosecutors of turning their war on crime into a war on the defense bar.
Mr Runiga is allied to Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel commander wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges.
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U.S. opposition to a treaty banning anti-personnel mines and an international criminal court to prosecute war crimes also fueled international criticism.
She was prosecuted as a Dutch citizen, but other war crimes suspects have been put on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
His record has made him quite legitimately a public enemy throughout the region, sought for prosecution on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court.
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Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
In March a Congolese general, Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged war crimes, deserted the army amid rumours that he might be arrested.
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As for Mr Bashir, he will feel that the vote is at least a partial vindication of his stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has indicted him for war crimes over the conflict in the country's western region of Darfur.
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At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, war-crimes trials are screened in full, usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out.
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It calls for those responsible for war crimes to be brought to justice, but only the UN Security Council can refer a country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it is not party to the Rome Statute, and the Security Council remains divided, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says.
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