Forces supporting Mr. Ouattara also committed atrocities, according to prosecution evidence and reports from human rights groups.
Government forces and paramilitaries were responsible for more than 90% of the atrocities, according to the commission's 1999 report.
There have been other R2P failures, notably in Sri Lanka at the end of the civil war in 2009, when some 40,000 civilians were slaughtered in a series of atrocities, according to the United Nations.
A10 Colombia Plans New Penalties A panel of legislators plans to present President Alvaro Uribe's government with a bill that would provide harsh penalties for any right-wing paramilitary fighters found guilty of atrocities, according to people who have worked on the proposed legislation.
He has admitted his involvement in the September 11th atrocities, and, according to American officials, had been planning new attacks in America.
The prosecutors have accused him and his co-defendants, Ieng Sary, 86, and Khieu Samphan, 80, of command responsibility for atrocities committed according to their plan and with their involvement.
It is a war that in many ways is still going on, despite the formal peace signed in 1996; extrajudicial executions continue, and no one has been brought to book for the atrocities that according to the country's official postwar truth commission left more than 200,000 dead or "disappeared".
Decades after the Holocaust and 17 years after the Rwanda genocide, "the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide," according to a fact sheet provided by the White House.
Yet, rebels have also committed atrocities and purportedly, according to Russia, used chemical weapons.
A rundown house in Seattle bore witness to three reclusive brothers' decades of unspeakable atrocities against children, according to authorities in Washington state.
