Kaul told Human Rights Watch that she has received numerous rape and death threats online from pro-BJP

politically motivated murder by a government), fewer international and civil wars, a reduction in battle deaths and civilians killed in war, less frequent use of the death penalty, and dramatic gains in women’s rights charts the undeniable correlation between the campaign that Amnesty International launched against the death In 1977, only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty; today, that number has increased to 140—nearly But local authorities did not conduct a proper investigation into the children’s deaths, resulting in

" Lee, who is banned by Myanmar's government from visiting, told the Geneva forum that up to 10,000 civilians

While the fighting has so far been confined to the Tigray region in the north, Tigrayan civilians in

The sudden death of the president's hand-picked successor created a leadership vacuum at RDHP; within

journalist in India will complete 150 days in jail after he was arrested on his way to report on the death

and possessions which the city authorities and peasants sought to loot from those they sent to their deaths Polish collaborators of the Nazis in Warsaw and Krakow and of the tens of thousands of Sunni Muslim civilians A local village head (“mukhtar”) threw six Armenian children from a mountain to their deaths. but also local peasants in the Lublin area, many of whom robbed their victims before beating them to death of Hafter, east of Aleppo, I found the documents of the local Isis courts; they proved that Syrian civilians

communist regime that ruled Cambodia with an iron fist from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for the deaths Dissent was usually met with death in the Khmer Rouge’s notorious “killing fields” or elsewhere, while

to serious health issues, like infections, hemorrhages and severe pain, and it is a leading cause of death

Atta Ullah accused government forces of continuing to kill civilians, rape women and destroy villages estimated last month that at least 6,700 Rohingya, including 730 young children, had met with violent deaths Not a single innocent civilian had been raped or killed by the security forces, the report said. U Zaw Htay, a former army major who serves as a spokesman for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s top civilian

The army, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power from the civilian government in Burma, as the country is But under the Constitution it imposed in 2008, the Tatmadaw is not subject to civilian authority, it Ne Win, the Tatmadaw seized power from a civilian government in 1962. Since the quasi-civilian government took office in 2011, rebel groups had been reporting about 10 armed But despite efforts by civilian leaders to secure peace, the number of clashes rose sharply last year

Shah in western India, opposition candidates released teary-eyed videos claiming they had received death