09: Investigate

• 090: Investigate, not specified below
• 091: Investigate crime, corruption
• 092: Investigate human rights abuses
• 093: Investigate military action or war crimes

CAMEO 090: Investigate, not specified below

DescriptionAll non-covert investigations not otherwise specified.

Usage NotesThis residual category is not coded except when distinctions among CAMEO 091 through 093 cannot be made. Also note that the event categories 090 through 093 should only be used when investigations are being or have been carried out. For investigation requests refer to CAMEO 051 instead. Investigation of historical cases should also be coded here.

ExampleThe United Nations is sending 21 military and civilian personnel to Yugoslavia on Wednesday to investigate the feasibility of a 10,000-member peace-keeping force, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday.

CAMEO 091: Investigate crime, corruption

DescriptionQuestion or inquire into criminal (theft, killing, etc) or corruption cases.

ExampleJudge Alejandro Rivera opened fraud investigations against 28 Chilean government officials suspected of taking kickbacks, the court said Friday.

ExampleA US national has been put under investigation in Italy for her possible role in rioting during a G8 summit in Genoa last month, Ansa news agency reported.

CAMEO 092: Investigate human rights abuses

DescriptionInquiring or searching into human rights abuses such as rape, torture, targeted assassinations, and violations of basic freedoms in general. War crimes are coded under CAMEO 093 instead.

ExampleMembers of the Association of African Jurists, a body linked to the Organisation of African Unity, investigated the welfare of nearly 2,000 Libyans, some of whom have been held as long as seven years.

ExampleIsrael's high court opened a landmark hearing Wednesday into the legality of secret interrogation techniques used against Palestinian detainees.

CAMEO 093: Investigate military action or war crimes

DescriptionInquire or search into military activities or war crimes such as military attacks, killings, massacres, or seizures.

Usage NotesUse this event form to code for war crimes as well.

ExampleCroatia is investigating alleged war crimes by Croatian extremists against Serb civilians and prisoners and will bring suspects to trial, a Croatian official said on Sunday.

ExampleSerbian military police have launched an investigation into alleged crimes committed by Croat forces against ethnic Serb civilians and Montenegrin prisoners of war during the 1991-1995 Serbo-Croatian conflict, the newspaper Jutarnji list reported Thursday.