Reports described civilians being shot in the upper body and head while fleeing, suggesting deliberate targeting of civilians. who claimed that the deaths of their family members were exploited by foreign media outlets to spread The public knew the death toll was higher in 2019, but the government would not reveal it. The state also refused to release the number of detained and killed civilians, a precedent it would follow

(Vantor/AFP/Getty Images)   ‘Death is everywhere’   A report from the  Yale School of Public Health’s “People say there are so many bodies on the road and the smell of death is everywhere,” she said. Then he told us, “'You are civilians, go!’” “The commander kept repeating, ‘These are civilians, don’t kill them! (Str/AFP/Getty Images)   Twenty years ago in Darfur, a mainly Arab militia — the precursor of the RSF

A six-year review finds Fulani Ethnic Militia responsible for four times more civilian deaths than Boko ABUJA — Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM) killed four times as many civilians as Islamic State West Africa Between October 2019 and September 2025, researchers recorded 79,323 deaths in terror-related violence More than 42,000 of the dead were civilians. “Violence linked to Fulani militia is the dominant force behind Nigeria’s death toll.

Before 2005, South Sudan was the victim of a twenty-year genocide by the Sudanese army and Arab militias The U.S., U.K., and U.N. backed independence without adequate safeguards for civilians. engagement that elevated self-protection of U.N. peacekeeping troops over protection of South Sudanese civilians Massacres have killed over 400,000 civilians. committee to resolve this conflict between Dinka Bor, the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes in Jonglei but civilians

Twenty million Yemenis have insufficient food, with ten million on the brink of starvation. As of July 2020, Yemen had over 1,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 440 deaths. The Houthis have refused to disclose the number of confirmed cases and deaths in the territories they They have deliberately targeted civilians and caused what the UN calls “the world’s worst humanitarian U.S. corporation Raytheon sells the Saudis laser guided bombs used by Saudi bombers to kill Yemeni civilians

A shooting spree in Haiti’s Artibonite Department Monday left at least 14 people dead, including 11 civilians The violence highlights the continuing difficulty of protecting civilians in areas where the state has After the force withdrew, armed-group members allegedly retaliated against civilians, killing residents death toll, but local media reports also attributed at least 11 civilian deaths to a Kokorat San Ras “We hope that the highest authorities in the country will take into account the situation of the civilian

international laws that classified certain actions during conflict - attacking hospitals and essential civilian Such attacks might only be lawful if the military advantage gained outweighed the loss of civilian life Many assumed these were signs the human race was evolving from savagery to civilisation. detained, or forced to flee, and ambulances have been blocked…. with Sudan accounting for 82% of global deaths part of a clear pattern of attacks on protected persons and objects, with devastating consequences for civilians

(file) © UN Ukraine 28 May 2025 I Human Rights Russian drone attacks against civilians in the Kherson , through a months-long pattern of drone attacks targeting civilians  on the right bank of the Dnipro   “ My husband died in my arms, bleeding to death, because the ambulance did not arrive on time . “The video footage that they posted displays the attacks and the resulting death, injury, damage, or The Commission stressed that the use of drones to target civilians and civilian objects is a violation

During the war, the SAF and RSF have attacked civilians with airstrikes and heavy artillery in densely According to the OHCHR, the damage to civilian objects and civilian lives continues. The crisis has continued to escalate in 2025 with a significant rise in civilian killings, executions total death toll from all conflict-related causes range from 20,000 to 150,000 . Moreover, civilians continue to bear the brunt of this devastation.

While an official death toll has yet to be confirmed, Sudanese aid groups reported that at least 54 people a local group that supports victims of the conflict, cited eyewitnesses who reported that some 126 civilians An SAF spokesperson denied the allegations, insisting that civilians had not been targeted. In recent months, the civilian death toll in Sudan has surged as fighting has intensified in the nearly At least 80 civilians were reported to have been killed in South Kordofan's captal Kadugli - where there

The death toll from demonstrations and ethnic violence that erupted in Ethiopia last week following the Officials have attributed the deaths to a combination of lethal force by security officers and interethnic "Due to the unrest that occurred in the region, nine police officers, five militia members and 215 civilians Police in Addis Ababa had previously reported 10 deaths in the capital. The total death toll is an increase from 166 fatalities reported last weekend.

This rhetoric goes far beyond threats of traditional warfare and denotes an explicit threat of civilizational As of April 26, figures from human rights groups and government records indicate that 2,100 civilians Previous threats to destroy civilian infrastructure in Iran also amount to a war crime under international threats and potential for further escalation, Genocide Watch considers Trump’s threats towards Iranian civilians These threats, alongside widespread bombings of civilians and the destruction of vital infrastructure