War Crimes
Journalist Nick McKenzie on Australian defamation case and the 'unreliable' NZ soldier witness
A former New Zealand solider who gave key evidence in a trial centred around a now disgraced former Australian SAS soldier has been deemed an unreliable and dishonest witness, by the trial judge.
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Australia: Defiant chief, police callout failure, Sydney fire
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about why Australia's Defence Force chief is resisting calls to hand in his meritorious service medals for having presided over Australian… Audio
Russian soldier jailed for life for Ukraine war crime
A court in Ukraine has jailed a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion.
Julian Assange's father: 'His jail is worse than hell'
The new documentary Ithaka documents 76-year-old John Shipton's campaign to free his son, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Shipton joins the show to discuss Ithaka and why he'll never give up on his… Video, Audio
Professor Robert Patman: what happens next in the Tigray conflict?
Over the last eight months, conflict in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, has killed thousands of people, displaced two million and pushed 350,000 to the brink of famine. Robert Patman is a Professor of… Audio
Rez Gardi: From refugee to human rights investigator
Rez Gardi was just six when she came to New Zealand from a refugee camp where she was born. Her Kurdish family spent nine years living in the camp, after they fled to Pakistan from Iraq and Saddam… Audio
Benjamin Ferencz: last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor
100 year old Benjamin Ferencz is a lawyer, writer, thinker and pacifist who investigated Nazi war crimes after the Second World War, and is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg War Crimes… Video, Audio
China-Australia relations reach new low over fake tweet
Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst looks at the fallout from a tweet depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child, as Scott Morrison took to WeChat to press… Audio
Christina Lamb: bearing witness to war crimes against women
The decorated war correspondent Christina Lamb (Farewell Kabul, I Am Malala) has written a harrowing history of what war does to women. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield is her attempt to tell the true… Audio
US deports former Nazi guard to Germany
A 95-year-old former Nazi collaborator who served in the SS as a labour camp guard during World War II has arrived in Germany after a long deportation battle in the US.
War criminal Slobodan Praljak dies after taking poison in court
A Bosnian Croat wartime commander has died after swallowing poison in a UN war crimes courtroom after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison sentence. Reuters' Rosanna Philpott reports. Video, Audio
War crimes specialist says NZ could face problems
War crimes specialist Alison Cole says Hit and Run contains enough information for International Criminal Court prosecutors to begin an investigation. Audio
All parties committed war crimes in Aleppo - UN
War crimes were committed by all parties against Syrian civilians during the battle for Aleppo last year, UN human rights investigators say.
John Key defends sending troops amid war crimes allegations
The Prime Minister has been forced to defend sending training troops to Iraq following allegations the army there is committing war crimes. Audio
War crimes lawyer says Bosnian suspects living in NZ
An Australian lawyer who worked on the trial of the former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miosevic, believes Bosnia war crime suspects are living in New Zealand. Audio
Murray McCully defends NZ
This week marks the 5th anniverary of the Mulivaikkal Massacre, in which the Sri Lankan military was accused of shelling hospitals and medical facilities in what was supposed to be a safe zone. Audio
Ideas for 19 February 2012
In Ideas today we're taking a look at the privatization of war. Military contracting, or outsourcing, is a 100 billion dollar industry. Audio