![The annual re-enactment of the country's last documented mass lynching; people recreate the contentious primary democratic elections in Georgia, along with the lynching [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Picture-11-AJE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
How a mass lynching and the people re-enacting it are forcing the US to confront the truth of its past and its present.
Crimes Against Humanity
![Bosnian Muslims toss 3,000 roses into the Drina River, each representing people killed in the 1992-95 war, in the eastern Bosnian town of Višegrad, on May 26, 2012 [File: AP/Amel Emric]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_120526130550.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
In the Bosnian town of Višegrad, the local authorities are trying hard to whitewash genocidal crimes through tourism.
![The report names 10 senior Syrian and Russian civilian and military officials who could be implicated in the violations [File: Aaref Watad/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/d98a92539493486f92a54e995951aa4d_8.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The watchdog says the targeting of civilians by the Syria-Russia alliance may amount to crimes...
![President Bashar al-Assad has been named as one of several figures responsible for the 2013 and 2017 chemical attacks against civilians in Syria [File: SANA handout via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/0e7eb9cb19d144d08c5101b58940e32a_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Rights groups file case seeking action against individuals for their alleged role in deadly chemical...
![Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, stands in a courtroom during a pre-trial in Phnom Penh in 2008 [File: Tang Chhinsothy/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/f3f51f22080d445cb6701cdc4f882b7d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Duch oversaw the torture and confessions of thousands of men, women and children at Tuol Sleng, a school turned prison.
![An online petition calls for Google to remove Vilina Vlas hotel in Visegrad, eastern Bosnia as a tourist site from Google search and Google Maps [File: Elvis Barukcic/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dc8184132f004e01850da4d7434d030d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Vilina Vlas spa, where Serb forces raped 200 Bosniak women, girls is listed on international travel and booking sites.
![President Hashim Thaci commanded the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war [File: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/aedb2175f457449dae8b34d5b51d9d3a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Court probing crimes committed during and after Kosovo’s war with Serbia indicts Hashim Thaci and nine former fighters.
![Rohingya, who have lived in Myanmar for generations, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 and are fearful of returning without guarantees on their rights and citizenship [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ae1261b0880e44e5adb746b6bc2e191e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
ICOE report comes days before UN’s top court issues ruling on whether urgent measures are necessary to stop genocide.
![The number of civilian causalities in Afghanistan reached record highs this year, with about 4,300 people hurt or killed between July and September [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/423b03bfaddd4910b482da00e29ffcc9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Man who lost wife and seven children in US air strike among many victims of violence who are seeking answers.
International Criminal Court finds ex-rebel leader Ntaganda guilty of war crimes in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
European courts are building cases against suspected perpetrators now living abroad.
![The genocide had left some two million Cambodians dead between 1975 and 1979 [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/00188ed0b5ba44f8be8ec79ab4311376_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Known as ‘Brother Number Two’, Nuon Chea was convicted of genocide by a UN-backed court last year.
![Qatar's National Human Rights Committee President Ali bin Samikh al-Marri addresses Monday's conference [Ali Younes/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cf780a61c3b24430b24ea23287da820c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
More than 200 attendees look for solutions to hold states and individuals accountable for human rights violations.
More and more perpetrators get away with human rights violations and crimes against humanity.