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Lubanga Chronicle #56: Things get tense between the Defence and the Prosecution

Tuesday, 2 February 2010- Things get tense between the Defence and the Prosecution

The Prosecution team is privy to some relevant information regarding the Defence's witnesses (03 and 04).  According to a document entitled 'investigation notes', these witnesses are somehow linked to Prosecution Witness 297. This document contains information on communications the Prosecution had with the witnesses...

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Kantanga-Ngudjolo Chronicle #9 Witness 250: “Mathieu Ngudjolo was our leader”

Friday, 29 January 2010- Witness 250: "Mathieu Ngudjolo was our leader"

The Prosecution has called its third witness, a former soldier who fought at Bogoro within the ranks of the Front des Nationalistes et Intégrationnistes (FNI), the Lendu armed group allegedly led by Mathieu Ngudjolo. Today, he is in the same room as the man he says was his leader.  This is clearly very disturbing for him. 

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British PoW who saved Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz joins survivors to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

26 Jan 10 – Wartime hero Denis Avey, who as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz helped save the life of Jewish inmate Ernst Lobethall, today joined survivors at The Holocaust Centre – home of the Aegis Trust – on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day to commemorate those who died. This year it is the 65 ^th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious death camp, in which an estimated 960,000 Jews wer...

Worldwide rallies launch campaign to prevent war in Sudan

9 Jan 2010 – Today, thousands of activists gathered at events in 15 countries in a global coordinated effort, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a return to severe and widespread conflict in Sudan. See film of the London rally here .

Sudan365 ( www.sudan365.org ),  a year of campaigning for Sudan, has been organised by a coalition of groups including the Aegis Trust, Amnesty In...

Aegis nominated for award

10 December 2009 - We're very flattered to have been jointly nominated, with Redress , for the Liberty-JUSTICE Human Rights Awards .  Both organisations have been put forward for:

"For their pivotal role, through concerted lobbying, in obtaining key changes to British law relating to crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide , and in obtaining justice for victims of such crimes."

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