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WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 

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https://africanpolicyforum.org/index.php/issues/icc-africa?id=83:list-indicted

List of some international indictments 

Bahr Abu Garda – Prosecutors application
Mohammed Ali – Referred by own country
Abdallah Banda- Prosecutors application
Omar al-Bashir- Prosecutors application
Jean-Pierre Bemba – Referred by own country
Muammar Gaddafi- Referred by own country
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi- Referred by own country
Laurent Gbagbo- Referred by own country
Simone Gbagbo- Referred by own country
Ahmed Haroun- Prosecutors application
Abdel Rahim Hussein- Prosecutors application
Saleh Jerbo- Prosecutors application
Germain Katanga- Referred by own country
Uhuru Kenyatta- Referred by own country
Joseph Kony- Referred by own country
Henry Kosgey- Referred by own country
Ali Kushayb- Referred by own country
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo- Referred by own country
Raska Lukwiya- Referred by own country
Callixte Mbarushimana- Referred by own country
Sylvestre Mudacumura- Referred by own country
Francis Muthaura- Referred by own country
Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui- Referred by own country
Bosco Ntaganda- Referred by own country
Okot Odhiambo- Referred by own country
Dominic Ongwen- Referred by own country
Vincent Otti- Referred by own country
William Ruto- Referred by own country
Joshua Sang- Referred by own country
Abdullah Senussi- Referred by own country
Rodrigo Duterte (former President of the Philippines) - indicted in 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87

Slobodan Milošević

List of some people issued international arrest warrants 

Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) - arrest warrant issued in March 2023.
Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel) - arrest warrant requested/issued in late 2024 (as of March 2025 data).
Min Aung Hlaing (Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces) - arrest warrant requested/issued in late 2024 (as of March 2025 data).

Wanted by international court

Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli: A commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA), he was wanted by the ICC for his alleged involvement in extrajudicial killings in Libya. He was reportedly killed in 2021 before a trial could take place.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Died September 19, 2019) 

Ousted in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings on Jan. 14, 2011, the former Tunisian president has an international warrant for his arrest.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Axis_personnel_indicted_for_war_crimes

Some convictions from international courts

Nuremberg Trials 

Martin Bormann – Guilty, sentenced in absentia to death by hanging. Later proven he committed suicide to avoid capture at the end of World War II in Europe, and remains discovered in 1972 were conclusively proven to be Bormann by forensic tests on the skull in 1998. Nonetheless, Simon Wiesenthal, Hugh Thomas and Reinhard Gehlen refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent 'Sasha'.
Karl Dönitz – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
Hans Frank – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
Wilhelm Frick – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
Hans Fritzsche – Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released September 1950.
Walther Funk – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, released in 1957 due to poor health.
Hermann Göring – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide two hours before the sentence was to be carried out.
Rudolf Hess – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in prison in 1987.
Alfred Jodl – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1947. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. Within months, the decision of the denazification court was itself overturned. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Wilhelm Keitel – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – Medically unfit for trial. died 1950
Robert Ley – Committed suicide before his trial began.
Konstantin von Neurath – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment (released 1954 on grounds of ill health).
Franz von Papen – Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released on appeal in 1949.
Erich Raeder – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955 on grounds of ill health).
Joachim von Ribbentrop – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Alfred Rosenberg – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Fritz Sauckel – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Baldur von Schirach – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Albert Speer – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
Julius Streicher – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.



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List of some other convictions from some international courts


Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman: A Janjaweed leader from Darfur, Sudan, who was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in October 2025 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and persecution.

Dominic Ongwen: A former commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) convicted of numerous crimes, including rape, sexual slavery, and the recruitment of child soldiers.

Mr. Al Hassan: Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mali. He received a 10-year sentence, which was later reduced by 12 months.

Bosco Ntaganda: Convicted by the ICC in 2019 for numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, and the use of child soldiers. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Thomas Lubanga Dyilo: Convicted by the ICC in 2012 for enlisting and conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo: Convicted by the ICC in 2016 for crimes of rape and murder committed by his forces in the Central African Republic, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Charles Taylor: The former President of Liberia was convicted in 2012 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international law during the Sierra Leone Civil War. He is the first former head of state to be convicted by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials. He is currently serving a 50-year prison sentence in the UK.

Alfred Yekatom: Convicted and sentenced for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and attacking civilians, during the 2013-2014 civil war.

Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona: Convicted and sentenced for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and attacking civilians, during the 2013-2014 civil war. 
Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed: A member of an Islamist militia in Mali during the 2012 conflict, he was convicted by the ICC in June 2024 of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, cruel treatment, and attacks on historic monuments in Timbuktu. 


Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi: A former Malian Islamist leader, he was convicted by the ICC in 2016 after admitting guilt to the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against historic and religious monuments in Timbuktu. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Germain Katanga: Another former Congolese militia leader, he was convicted by the ICC in 2014 of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to a 2003 attack on a village in Ituri. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud: A Malian linked to an Islamist group, he was convicted by the ICC in June 2024 of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Timbuktu. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 




https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/seven-african-leaders-forced-to-appear-in-court-over-past-30-years/22308

Hissene Habre

Ruling Chad with an iron fist between 1982 and 1990, Habre was toppled by current President Idriss Deby Itno.

Since his overthrow, he has lived in exile in Senegal.

After 19 months of investigation, Senegalese authorities in collaboration with the African Union indicted Habre in July 2013 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and placed him under provisional detention.


OBSERVATION

Legal and impartial adjudication of crimes, especially war crimes and crimes against humanity, is integral to establishing lasting peace because it makes it clear and unequivocal that war crimes and crimes against humanity will be legally adjudicated, which will deter some people from committing such crimes and reduce the overall propensity to commit crimes, especially during conflict.

Those who have been indicted and or convicted in the past are no worse than those committing the same and or worse crimes in the present.

For any society to enjoy peace, crimes and criminals need to be legally and accurately prosecuted in a timely manner. Refusing that is encouraging crime and an effort to prevent lasting peace. That shall not prevail through any means, manner or form.


Written by Abiodun Mohammed Adeyemi Ajijola

Posted on 22nd November 2025