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1980 May 24 |
Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages. Links: Netherlands, Iran, World Court 
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1985 Jan 18 |
President Reagan declared that the U.S. would not take part in the World Court ruling on Nicaraguan charges. Links: Nicaragua, USA, World Court, ReaganR
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1985 Oct 7 |
The United States announced it would no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions. This was in response to a June 25, 1985, World Court ruling that U.S. involvement in Nicaragua violated international law. The ruling stemmed from a suit brought in April 1984 after revelations that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan ports. The U.S. later vetoed two U.N. resolutions calling for compliance to the World Court ruling. Links: Nicaragua, USA, UN, CIA, World Court
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1986 Jun 27 |
World Court ruled that US aid to Nicaraguan contras was illegal. Links: Nicaragua, USA, World Court
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1988 Apr 18 |
The United States destroyed two more Iraqi oil platforms, after a mine in the Persian Gulf injured 10 crewmen aboard a U.S. frigate. The US attacked Iran in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a US ship. Operation Praying Mantis, the largest US naval action since World War II. By the end of the day, the Navy had destroyed two IRGCN bases, sunk three Iranian vessels, and seriously damaged five more, killing over 50 IRGCN and Iranian Navy personnel in the process. In 2003 a World Court in a 14-2 decision ruled the US was wrong but doesn't need to pay damages. Links: Iraq, USA, World Court
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1988 Jul 3 |
The US Navy cruiser ship USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus A-300 in the Persian Gulf shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. All 290 people aboard were killed after the crew of the Vincennes misidentified the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter. The attack followed what the US Navy refers to as Operation Praying Mantis, a daylong naval battle in the Persian Gulf between American forces and Iran. That battle came after the USS Samuel B. Robertson struck a mine that the Americans later accused Iran of laying in the shipping channels it was trying to keep open for Kuwaiti oil tankers. In 1996 the US paid $131.8 million in compensation of which half would go directly to the families of the people killed. Iran filed suit in World Court in 1989 and settled out of court in Feb, 1996. Links: USA, Iran, Aviation, Tragedy, World Court
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1989 |
Trinidad and Tobago appealed for an Int’l. World Court to help it and other small countries fight int’l. drug trafficking. Links: Trinidad&Tobago, World Court
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1992 Apr 14 |
Libya cut itself off from the world for 24 hours to mark the sixth anniversary of the U.S. air raid, the same day the World Court rejected Libya's appeal to prevent sanctions against it for refusing to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Links: Libya, World Court
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1993 Jun 24 |
In Texas Jennifer Ertman (14) and Elizabeth Pena (16) were confronted by six teenage members of a loose-knit "Black and White" gang who savagely raped, tortured, and beat them to death. Police soon arrested Jose Ernesto Medellin, who gave a written confession but was not told that he could request assistance from the Mexican consulate. Five of the six defendants received death sentences at trial. Medellin was sentenced to death in 1994, but the World court in 2004 ruled that his conviction, and that of 50 other Mexicans in the US, violated the 1963 Vienna Convention. In 2007 his case went before the US Supreme Court. In 2010 Peter Anthony Cantu was executed for his role in the rapes and murders. Links: USA, Murder, Texas, World Court, Rape
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1996 Nov 29 |
A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims -- the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, UN, World Court, ICJ
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1998 Feb 27 |
The World Court ruled that it has the authority to decide on the location of a trial for the 2 Libyans accused of blowing up a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Links: Libya, Scotland, World Court
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1999 Apr 29 |
Yugoslavia filed World Court cases against 10 countries, including the United States, claiming their bombing campaign breached international law. Links: USA, Yugoslavia, World Court
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1999 May 10 |
In Belgrade the government claimed that the refugees coming out of Kosovo in the 1st ten days of the war were 3000-4000 ethnic Albanians paid by the US and NATO to march in a circle from Macedonia to Albania and Montenegro and back to Kosovo. Belgrade also opened a legal offensive and asked the World Court to stop NATO air attacks. Links: Albania, USA, Serbia, NATO, Macedonia, World Court
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1999 Jun 2 |
The World Court rejected Yugoslavia's contention that NATO bombing was unlawful and that the Western alliance was committing genocide. The court also refused to call for a cessation of hostilities. Links: NATO, Yugoslavia, World Court
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2000 Dec 31 |
The US signed a treaty for the creation of the 1st permanent int’l. court, joining most other countries of the world, despite objections by conservatives and the Pentagon. Links: USA, World Court
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2002 Feb 14 |
In the Netherlands the Int'l. Court of Justice cited diplomatic immunity and ruled that Belgium cannot try former and current world leaders. Belgium adopted a law in 1993 that empowered judges to hear war crimes and genocide cases regardless of where the alleged crimes occurred or who committed them. Links: Belgium, Netherlands, World Court
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2002 May 6 |
It was reported that the Bush administration planned to annul the 1998 US signature on the Rome Statute, a treaty for creating an int'l. war-crimes tribunal. Links: USA, World Court
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2002 Oct 23 |
The Nigerian government said it rejects a World Court ruling that granted possession of a disputed oil-rich peninsula to neighboring Cameroon. Links: Cameroon, Nigeria, World Court
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2002 Dec 17 |
Malaysia won control of two tiny palm-fringed islands when the World Court ruled in its favor in a long-running dispute with Indonesia. Links: Indonesia, Malaysia, World Court
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2003 Jan 21 |
Mexico appealed to the World Court to stop the execution of 51 of its citizens in the United States. Links: Mexico, World Court
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2003 Feb 5 |
The World Court ruled that the United States must temporarily stay the execution of three Mexican citizens on U.S. death rows. Links: USA, Mexico, World Court
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2003 Mar 11 |
The 18-judge world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been approved Jul 17, 1998, by the Rome Treaty. Links: Netherlands, World Court
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2003 Dec 10 |
An Int'l. Court sentenced former Bosnian-Serb Col. Dragan Obrenovic (40) to 17 years in prison for his role in the slaughter of more than 7,000 men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia. [see July 6, 1995] Links: Bosnia, Serbia, World Court
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2004 Mar 31 |
The International Court of Justice ruled that the United States violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death row and ordered their cases be reviewed. Links: USA, Mexico, World Court, ICJ
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2004 Jul 9 |
The Int’l. Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s separation barrier in the occupied West Bank violates freedom of movement and should be demolished. Links: Israel, World Court, ICJ
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2005 Nov 7 |
The United Nations elected five judges -- from the United States, Morocco, Mexico, New Zealand and Russia -- to the prestigious World Court, the highest judicial authority of the world body. Links: Russia, USA, UN, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, World Court
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2008 Dec 23 |
Germany filed suit at the World Court asking Italy to stop its legal system from awarding damages to victims of Nazi war crimes. Links: Italy, Germany, World Court
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2018 Mar 19 |
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in The Hague to petition the World Court to force Chile to grant his land-locked country direct access to the Pacific Ocean, in a dispute between the Andean neighbors that dates back decades. Links: Bolivia, Chile, World Court
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2018 Sep 3 |
Mauritius tried to persuade judges at the World Court to find that it was illegally stripped by Britain of another Indian Ocean archipelago, the Chagos Islands, now home to a major US air base. Britain apologized for the "shameful way" it evicted residents of the disputed Chagos islands but insisted Mauritius was wrong to bring the increasingly bitter dispute to the UN's top court. Links: Britain, USA, Mauritius, World Court, Chagos Islands
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2022 Dec 1 |
Judges at the World Court ruled that Chile and land-locked Bolivia now agreed on previous points of dispute over access to the waters of the Silala river and that they would not need to make a decision on Chile's claims before the court. Links: Bolivia, Chile, World Court
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