Cartels regularly engage in extortion, kidnapping, rape, torture, murder, and massacres of civilians

An Afghan commando at a frontline position in a civilian house in Kunduz in July. Still, as the fighting between Taliban, government and militia forces intensifies and civilian casualties

And — horribly, amazingly — civilians were still being pulled out. The few civilians who had come back to the area stopped in disbelief to watch the vehicle lumber by,

Armed civilians have taken it upon themselves to guard their villages from ‘outsiders’.

More than 150 civilians were killed and more than 100 women raped by forces who then tried to cover it

things, of failing to quash violence by jihadist groups and ethnic militias that has killed hundreds of civilians Another local mayor placed the final death toll at 13.

Deliberate targeting of Ukrainian civilians, especially those who self-identify as Ukrainians, with bombardment Ukrainians the right to exist, and mounting evidence of deliberate, large-scale targeting of Ukrainian civilians

Human rights groups have long blamed violence against Palestinian civilians on an atmosphere of impunity

Genocide Watch staff have published the twenty-seventh Timestream in a series of critical genocides

launched disproportionate widespread attacks— called by authorities “clearance operations” —on the civilian Rohingya population, causing large-scale death, displacement, and other atrocities; • WHEREAS, since September 2018 report that the Tatmadaw “[d]uring their operations […] has systematically targeted civilians were widespread and systematic and carried out by the Tatmadaw, other security forces and groups of civilians

planted roadside bombs and mines to target government forces, but the explosives often kill and wound civilians

A force of about 16,000 people attacked the city and killed civilians, looted houses and robbed banks