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  • Armed group's attacks in DRC killed almost 800 in 18 months: UN

    the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past 18 months have killed at least 800 civilians Entire families have been hacked to death," the report said. DRC forces had also committed human rights violations, including the extrajudicial killing of eight civilians

  • UN Rights Body Should Help Tackle Impunity in Sudan

    and allied Arab militias have targeted Massalit and other non-Arab communities, killing and injuring civilians

  • Indonesia’s Occupation of West Papua

    occupation is often referred to as a slow-motion genocide , with an estimated half a million West Papuan civilians , in order to deflect attention from the 16-month-long settler colonial mass murder of Palestinian civilians

  • United States: Embargo Arms to the United Arab Emirates

    of airstrikes and other attacks by the Saudi and UAE-led coalition in Yemen that unlawfully killed civilians officials’ desire to reward the UAE for recognizing Israel should not entail complicity in unlawful deaths The panel found that the UAE conducts drone strikes in Libya on behalf of the LAAF which have killed civilians apparently unlawful airstrike on a residential neighborhood of Tripoli in October 2019 that killed civilians “How many more UAE airstrikes using US weapons need to wreak havoc on civilians before the US says no

  • South Sudan: Ten Years of Independence and Genocide

    conventional armies, armed conflict between rival ethnic groups has surged in ungoverned areas, exacting a civilian death toll not seen since the war.

  • Manipur: A Land of Settled Grief

    Civilian populations on both sides flaunt sophisticated modern weapons including assault rifles, light It is rare for even a day to pass without the rattle of gunfire and bombs and news of fresh deaths and To live amid the Meiteis after the violence, they declared, would be “ as good as death ”. the Nagas and Kukis fought a bloody series of ethnic battles in the 1990s resulting in more than 400 deaths And then his government stands by as militants loot police and paramilitary armouries, arming civilians

  • Burundians, Fleeing Political Violence, Find Welcome in Canada

    Fearful of possible genocide in Burundi, human rights groups were urging the United Nations to send in a civilian But after she reported on the shooting deaths of a Burundian journalist and his wife and two children “He said, ‘You’ve signed your death warrant,’” she said in an interview last week.

  • Why Wagner is winning hearts in the Central African Republic

    It came a few months after the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in August, which has led to increased and people were not able to cross it Since 2014, Minusca has played an important role in protecting civilians Africa would wane after Prigozhin's failed mutiny against Russia's President Vladimir Putin and then his death Wagner official Dmitry Syty, who was spotted beside Prigozhin in the last video he posted before his death

  • Citing ‘Never Again,’ US Jewish Groups Unite Behind Legislation Aimed at Burma Atrocities

    predominantly Christian, ethnic Kachin live, that displaced dozens of villagers and seriously injured two civilians

  • Israel To Take Punitive Steps Against Palestinians

    unusually fierce attack on militants in the Jenin refugee camp left nine Palestinians dead, including two civilians the step would reduce violence because “we have seen, time and again … that heroic, armed and trained civilians

  • Ukraine’s New Diplomatic Battlefronts: U.S. Weapons, UN Peacekeepers

    But there are still frequent and heavy exchanges of fire, which claim both military and civilian casualties Front line villages are especially vulnerable given the intermixing of civilians with armed actors on Negotiating these safety zones or implementing the last of three agreed disengagement areas would improve civilian

  • CAR: Repeated attacks on medical facilities

    “The resurgence of conflict in CAR since December has taken a heavy toll on the civilian population and head during armed robberies, while two others were too fearful to continue working after receiving death Being forced to suspend our activities only exacerbates people’s vulnerability and results in avoidable deaths the conflict should reinforce respect for international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians

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