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☆ Fact Check: Video of Syria’s Tadamon massacre shared as showing Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

(Editor’s note: Graphic footage and images linked to in paragraphs two, three, four and five)A video of men in Tadamon, Syria, being pushed into a mass grave and shot has been shared online purporting to show Israeli soldiers shooting civilians in Gaza in 2023. A Facebook user (archived) sharing the video on Nov. 1 wrote: “Israeli military are conducting a war crime on the ground operation in Gaza they're doing exactly what Hitler did to them. Please share it.” Text on the clip reads that Israeli ground troops were conducting a “genocide roundup”. But the video, which shows men in military fatigues shooting blindfolded men in civilian clothes, is unrelated to events in Gaza in 2023. The clip was captured in Syria in 2013, according to researchers who investigated it when it was leaked to them in 2019.

Persons: Hitler, Annsar, Umit, Read Organizations: Institute for, Genocide, New Lines, The Guardian, Reuters, U.S . State Department, Thomson Locations: Tadamon, Syria, Gaza, Damascus, Amsterdam, France

☆ Discovery of Dutch prince's Nazi membership card revives calls for inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Tosterling Bart H. Meijer | Bart H. Meijer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The card, which showed Bernhard first joined in 1933, was found by historian Flip Maarschalkerweerd, the Royal Information Service. via Reuters TV Acquire Licensing RightsAMSTERDAM, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The discovery of a Nazi membership card in the name of late Dutch Prince Bernhard, a German who married into the Dutch royal family in the 1930s, revived calls on Friday for an inquiry into his ties to Adolf Hitler's party. Prince Bernhard, the grandfather of Dutch King Willem Alexander, died in 2004. The Dutch government confirmed the card was found but has resisted calls for an inquiry. The card, which showed Bernhard first joined in 1933, was found by historian Flip Maarschalkerweerd, the Royal Information Service said.

Persons: Bernhard, Flip Maarschalkerweerd, Dutch Prince Bernhard, Adolf Hitler's, Prince Bernhard, Dutch King Willem Alexander, Prince Bernhard's, Bernhard von Biesterfeld, Maarschalkerweerd, Juliana, King Willem Alexander, Prince, Willem, Alexander, Toby Sterling, Bart Meijer, Anthony Deutsch, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Royal Information Service, Reuters, Rights, Nazi, NSDAP, for Information, Documentation Israel, Institute for, Genocide, De Volkskrant, Allies, Germany, NOS, Thomson Locations: Dutch, Nazi, U.S, Netherlands

☆ Opinion: A mountaintop enclave facing genocide. And a plan to stop it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Opinion Lara Setrakian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Local Armenian authorities have vied for independence from Azerbaijan for decades, leading to an ongoing political and military conflict. Since December, the Lachin Corridor, the main road into the mountaintop enclave, has been blocked by Azeri protesters and government forces, who stopped the normal flow of goods. Multiple monitoring groups say there is widespread food scarcity on the ground, with child and adult malnutrition setting in. Last Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, voicing US concern over what he called “the deteriorating humanitarian situation” facing Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. The fastest path would be for Azerbaijan to restore movement along the Lachin Corridor, letting in aid from the ICRC.

Persons: Lara Setrakian, Luis Moreno Ocampo’s, Tom Lantos, Lara Setrakian Heidi Gutman Nagorno, Ocampo, ”, Antony Blinken, Ilham Aliyev, Blinken, Aliyev, Cross, Mary Asatryan, “, —, KAren Minasyan, shouldn’t Organizations: Applied Policy Research Institute, Twitter, CNN, Criminal Court, Rights, Soviet Union . Local, International Committee, Reuters, Court, Justice, ICRC, Stepanakert Medical, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute for War, Karabakh, Facebook Locations: Yerevan, Armenia, Nagorno, Karabakh, Republic of Artsakh, Azerbaijan, Soviet, Russian, Mary Asatryan Azerbaijan, Baku, Aghdam, EU, Soviet Union, Nakhichevan, Syria, Sarajevo, Darfur, Russia, Turkey, Israel

☆ A feared Ukrainian female sniper the Russians call 'Punisher' says women can be especially deadly on the battlefield because a male soldier might hesitate to take a shot, but a woman 'never' does
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Ukrainian female sniper says a man might hesitate to shoot the enemy, but she would never. "If a man hesitates whether to make a shot or not, a woman will never," Evgeniya Emerald told the BBC's Olga Malchevska. Evgeniya told the BBC. The sniper owned a jewelry business before Russia's invasion, and recently married a fellow Ukrainian soldier on the frontlines. The sniper told the outlet that she was nine when she fired her first gun, and hit five targets with five rounds.

Persons: Evgeniya Emerald, Emerald, Olga Malchevska, She's, Evgeniya, Joan of Arc, —, Dad Organizations: BBC, Evgeniya, Service, Ukrainian, for War Locations: Ukrainian, Wall, Silicon, Nazi, Russian

U.N. investigators in 2012 concluded there were reasonable grounds to believe shabbiha militias committed crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, and war crimes such as arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violence and pillaging. PAPER TRAILSome human rights scholars who have studied the role of the shabbiha in the Syrian war say the Assad regime initially used the groups to distance itself from violence on the ground. CIJA is a nonprofit founded by a veteran war crimes investigator and staffed by international criminal lawyers who have worked in Bosnia, Rwanda and Cambodia. While there is no international war crimes court with jurisdiction over Syria's conflict, there are a number of so-called universal jurisdiction cases in countries like the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Germany which have laws allowing them to prosecute war crimes even if they are committed elsewhere. Ghany said the documents were "necessary" pieces of evidence linking the shabbiha to the state in international justice cases.

Persons: shabbiha, Assad, CIJA, Bashar al, Ugur Ungor, Fadel Abdul Ghany, Nerma Jelacic, Ghany, Stephanie Van Den Berg, Maya Gebeily, Frank Jack Daniel Our Organizations: UN, Reuters, Commission, International Justice, Committees, Assad's Baath, Popular Committees, Crisis Management, Dutch NIOD Institute for, Studies, Syrian Network for Human Rights, National Defence Force, Thomson Locations: HAGUE, BEIRUT, U.S, CIJA, Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Syria, Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Karm, Homs, al, Adawiya

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