Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling genocide in Rwanda, died in a hospital in The Hague on Saturday.

In Cold Blood

NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados

My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

Saving the UN archive on the Nakba “Their destruction would have been catastrophic … If there is ever a just and durable solution to this conflict, then this is the only evidence people can use to show there were once Palestinians living in a particular place” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Families of IRA men shot dead reach settlements for damages with British Ministry of Defence and PSNI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mark O’Connell: Attack drones have captured the most disturbing images of war I’ve seen

In case you missed Prof Mark Drumbl's excellent talk on 'Child Soldiers: Coming of Age in Atrocity' the recording is now available: www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Syrian commission prepares war crimes case against notorious Assad official www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Dangerous precedent of children interfering with fiber optic drones, potentially directly participating in hostilities by such actions

Sudan paramilitary #RSF leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai, investigation reveals #UAE www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Pakistan accused of attacking Afghan university in Kunar province killing at least 7 and injuring over 75 people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mali defence minister Camara killed in truck bombing of his residence that also destroyed part of nearby mosque killing worshippers inside, it comes as #Mali is hit by wave of rebel attacks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That Gulf AI buildout looking a whole lot less appealing now huh

“Lethal kinetic strike” being the administration’s preferred euphemism for murder.

Recent piece from the Guardian’s ‘Cotton Capital’ series discussing learning points on #repair & #enslavement, and a plan based on ~3 years of engagement with descendants, #reparations experts, civil society organisations, academics and cultural leaders. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Syria arrests suspected leader of Tadamon massacre www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

New episode of JIB/JAB - a fascinating and important discussion with @janinadill.bsky.social and @monicahakimi.bsky.social on how the attacks on Iran impact the crisis in int'l law, what follows, and how legal scholars and states should respond. Wherever you get your podcasts, or link in comment:

"While it is unclear if the cuts to CHMR can be tied to any specific civilian casualties in Iran, including the Minab strike, it is clear that the Pentagon is deemphasizing civilian protection, even as current and former defense officials say that internal demand for programs like CHMR remains high"

Phone tracking shows how Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates provided critical support #Sudan's #RSF in the brutal capture of el-Fasher where thousands of civilians died www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to... @ejiltalk.bsky.social

Water Under Fire: The (il)legality of Reprisals Against Desalination Plants opiniojuris.org/2026/03/31/w...

This was published this morning by the IDF (AI translation). #lebanon

The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.

"Africans were enslaved, Europeans grew rich [..] Therefore, Europe owes Africa. This narrative carries moral force, but it risks flattening the complex history of European engagement with the continent." - Interesting piece on the role of class in #slavery, relating to today's #reparations debates.

The 52nd unlawful use of lethal military force in extrajudicial killings, with at least 180 people murdered. A vilation of domestic and international law. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

“The Trump administration’s relentless bullying ignores a central lesson from classical antiquity: Athens’s shift from benevolent hegemony to malevolent empire paved its road to ruin.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Irish fugitive and suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan arrested in Dubai www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SAS soldier was justified in shooting IRA driver and two others, court rules www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On the first day of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, a primary school in southern Iran was attacked, killing at least 175 people—including many children. Akshaya Kumar evaluates whether the strike was sufficiently reckless to meet the mens rea standard for war crimes.

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe. Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

Some great details in this FT piece. Some us of experts have been banging the drum of third party space services support/sales to smaller powers without much of their own systems for years… also happened a lot during the Cold War across the Third World.

“There’s a danger that these lawless killings just become background noise,” @bcfinucane.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. “The U.S. Congress remains the institution best situated to bring these to halt — if not now, then at least after the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/t...

Thank you Marco Milanovich for finding that transcript … not just as a teaching tool on the legality of war and the role of lawyers but as reminder to lawyers of the stakes involved. www.ejiltalk.org/when-governm...

"Military lawyers ... may have become the lawyerly equivalent of a slowly boiled frog, so accustomed to justifying, normalizing, stretching and manufacturing grey areas and uncertainties, that saying no when saying no matters becomes exceptionally difficult, even unthinkable."

Former Lafarge chief sentenced to six years in jail for financing terrorism www.ft.com/content/54b1...

🚨 HUGE justice news: #Lafarge found guilty for paying millions to jihadist groups, including ISIS, to keep its business running in Syria. Eight ex-employees were also found guilty of financing terrorism, including former CEO Bruno Lafont who was jailed for six years: www.bbc.com/news/article...

In images such as this one identified by Leone, geolocated and chrono-located by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself, we can clearly distinguish the JDAM guidance kit's tail section - containing the navigation system, which manoeuvres its fins - and the strakes secured to the body of the "dumb" bomb.

On Saturday, a U.S. boat strike killed another five people, leaving one survivor, bringing the number of people who have been killed in illegal boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 168 since the Trump administration began targeting boats in early September. apnews.com/article/boat...

Over 200 civilians feared killed after reports of givernment air strike on Nigerian market in Borno state www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today in Beirut. #lebanon

This should be a no-brainer but we argue in this @theguardian.com article that shooting at oil and chemical tankers is a terrible idea, while wider strikes on naval vessels already have serious environmental impacts from oil spills in the Strait of Hormuz www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lebanon’s health ministry said that Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

With threats to attack power plants and other civilian infrastructure circulating between the parties to the Iran war, Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl.bsky.social) argues that so-called reprisals are much more likely to cause uncontrollable escalation: #Iran #IranWar #Civilians #LawsofWar

Reprisals are illegal, but they are also stupid.

The integration of civilian and military data on shared servers is stripping infrastructure of its legal protections and driving up costs for businesses https://restofworld.org/2026/gulf-war-data-center-risks/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

"The [Office of the Special Investigator] has been tasked with investigating literally dozens of murders” in Afghanistan. This is first person charged. In an earlier civil case, “a Federal Court judge found that Roberts-Smith had taken part in at least four murders...” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🕊️ Don't miss our Short Course: Transitional Justice Law and Practice 🌍 Insights into the principles and practices of transitional justice, from reparations to truth commissions. #TransitionalJustice #HumanRights #PeaceBuilding buff.ly/SIJJ6FI

A reminder that justice comes slow but the efforts find their way — families always at the center of it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🇬🇧❗️🇺🇸 The UK will refuse U.S. requests to use British bases for strikes on Iranian bridges or power plants, - The i Paper UK officials argue these targets are civilian infrastructure and could make such attacks a potential war crime, so permission will not be granted.