between Indonesian security forces and pro-independence fighters have intensified in recent years, with civilians

Those put to death include at least 29 arrested in connection with the recent protests and at least 3 used summary proceedings, torture-tainted “confessions,” and public executions to weaponize of the death

A deathly stench wafts from the morgue where the bodies are being kept; power outages are frequent and they believe, is trying to suppress evidence that could provide the accountability they crave for the deaths The country’s transition to democracy has been fragile, with civilian and military leaders still jousting hundreds of people staging a sit-in in the capital, Khartoum, a brutal display intended to show that while civilian If that is confirmed, the death toll from that day will turn out to be far higher than known.

against Russian propagandists who have frequently used genocidal language, called for mass killings of civilians

Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians execution, one of six men, the other of one man; and other cases of unlawful violence and threats against civilians Soldiers were also implicated in looting civilian property, including food, clothing, and firewood. “The cases we documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians Many of the Ukrainian civilians we interviewed described Russian forces taking food, firewood, clothing

Both groups have been accused of committing atrocities against civilians, including rape and mass murder Bokassa was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. The United Nations has deployed a peacekeeping force there since 2014 to help protect civilians from The 13,500 U.N. peacekeepers are supposed to protect civilians and stop armed groups from inflicting

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.

Civilians stand outside their homes destroyed in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, in February 2025 [Raghed

decision to reduce UNAMID drastically (see below); my focus will be on the greatly increased risks to civilians Also, the changes will affect the civilian staff as they would be deployed only in the capitals of Darfur Kebkabiya to Sortony camp (near a UNAMID base in North Darfur), compelling the airlifting of displaced civilians thousands of rapes of girls and women in Darfur since January 2008 when UNAMID officially took on its civilian destructive and the product of arson—regularly reported by Radio Dabanga Frequently failed to protect civilians

The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this

But the path to conflict is often paved with mistake and miscalculation; if rocket fire killed civilians

According to PSNA, Rocket Lab launches spy satellites from Māhia, which PSNA claims Israel uses go target civilians