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Human-rights groups want him prosecuted for genocide.

The Young Communist League has demanded that Mr. Mbeki be prosecuted for genocide.

Slobodan Milosevic, the Serb leader who expressed astonishment when I asked him if he might find himself in front of a war-crimes tribunal one day – he was "for peace", he explained – was prosecuted for genocide and died behind bars.

The major war crimes tribunals — covering atrocities in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and seven nations being investigated by the International Criminal Court — have been criticized as being too expensive for the seemingly small number of defendants prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and egregious domestic crimes.

The first European head of state to be prosecuted for genocide and war crimes, he emerged to embody the dark side of European endeavour, and to sully the hopes generated by the eastern European and Balkan revolutions of that momentous year.

UN-appointed investigators have called for top military officials in Myanmar to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

How could we prosecute leaders for genocide but absolve them of aggression?

But on Monday, in a move that one rights campaigner called an own goal, leaders stripped the court – which has yet to begin work – of power to prosecute them for genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The change would also allow the Palestinian territories to access bodies like the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes people for genocide, war crimes and other human rights violations.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - More than 50 countries asked the U.N. Security Council on Monday to refer the Syria crisis to the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes people for genocide and war crimes, in order to send a signal to Syrian authorities.

In a decision that is widely being met with incredulity, African leaders have decided that heads of state and top administrators cannot be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.