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  • Somali drone strikes may be war crimes: Amnesty

    May 7, 2024 [Getty Images] Fourteen children killed and 17 civilians injured Another 17 civilians were injured in the strikes: 11 children, two women and four men. “In Somalia, civilians have borne the brunt of suffering in war far too often. These horrific deaths must not be overlooked. The first strike on the farm killed and injured several civilians.

  • UN Report: Rights Violations Against Ukraine Escalating

    . © UNOCHA/Serhii Morozov 30 June 2025 I Human Rights Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have It covers the period from 1 December 2024 to 31 May 2025, during which 986 civilians were killed and The use of short-range drones is driving the rise in civilian casualties, the report said. OHCHR  verified that 207 civilians were killed and 1,365 injured in these attacks. Among the deadliest incidents was a Russian drone strike on a civilian bus transporting employees of

  • Killings of protesters continue in Colombian city of Cali

    The deaths come as Colombia’s federal government sends hundreds of troops to restore order in the southwestern city, where clashes between protesters and civilians who oppose antigovernment demonstrations and roadblocks resulted in at least five deaths last week. killed on Friday amid protests that included the looting of an office building, and clashes in which civilians were marked at first by cases of police abuse, but have also been affected recently by clashes between civilians

  • UN: No Safe Place Left in Ukraine Amid Rising Attacks

    and Security Russian aerial attacks continue to intensify across Ukraine, exacting a rising toll on civilians Citing figures from the UN human rights office, OHCHR , he said civilian casualties reached a three-year high in June, with 6,754 civilians killed or injured in the first half of 2025 alone. Strikes in Russia The senior UN officials also expressed concern over reported civilian casualties from Jenča reiterated that “international law clearly prohibits attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure

  • Old faces, familiar fears: Central African Republic's tense election

    Twenty-two months after the signature of the agreement, violence is at a level similar to what it was But serious abuses against civilians by the rebel groups – which also regularly fight each other – have “Twenty-two months after the signature of the agreement, [violence] is at a level similar to what it From July 2019 to June 2020, the UN documented 880 incidents of abuse affecting civilians – the vast CAR’s first coronavirus case was in March, but just 63 deaths have been reported since.

  • HRW REPORT Iraq: Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians

    Armed Group Abuses (Beirut) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians Qabusiye incident and that their initial findings were that Yezidi forces had abducted the Imteywit civilians armed group vigilantes.” https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/27/iraq-yezidi-fighters-allegedly-execute-civilians

  • Myanmar Army kills twelve Rohingya villagers

    , 2024, there was a further escalation, with continuous artillery bombardment leading to the tragic death Civilians must be protected under international laws. The deliberate engagement of conflict within civilian villages violates these principles. military or the Arakan Army to urgently address this issue and refrain from creating battlegrounds within civilian

  • Nigerian Governor Sides with Citizens Against Terror

    So-called Fulani bandits reportedly murdered 12,039 civilians, and Fulani herdsmen killed 11,948 people In contrast, Boko Haram and ISWAP caused 3,079 civilian deaths during the same period. This translates to an average of 7,820 Christian deaths annually, 650 monthly, and 22 daily. During the two-hour raid, civilian defenders attempted to confront the invaders on the village’s outskirts Mutfwang also commended local civilian defense efforts.

  • Whole families dead in recent Syria violence, says UN

    A spokesman told reporters that the UN had so far verified the killing of 111 civilians since last Thursday A monitoring group has reported that more than 1,200 civilians, most of them Alawites, have been killed He said the UN, using strict verification methods, had so far documented the killings of 90 male civilians They clashed with security forces, reportedly resulting in dozens of civilian casualties, including patients The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said its civilian death toll had

  • Syrian army expels Kurds from Aleppo, fights Kurdish forces

    as fears grow of wider conflict between government and Kurdish authorities The Syrian army ordered civilians volunteer civil defence group, helps people flee in Aleppo.Photograph: Ghaith Alsayed/AP About 140,000 civilians At least eight civilians have been killed in the Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods, and seven civilians sides accused the other of human rights violations, with the Syrian government claiming the SDF used civilians Supporters of the government were outraged as pictures of civilians allegedly killed by SDF shelling

  • Sudan: the West Could Have Stopped the Bloodshed

    impartial international rights monitors such as the Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab of attacking civilian Four years ago, Sudan’s military coup crushed a new civilian government before democracy could take root other in April 2023, with an estimated 150,000 killed and half the population displaced as they bomb civilians responsible for sexual and gender-based violence on a massive scale, and the deliberate targeting of civilians The international community should support the rise of a strong, democratically elected civilian government

  • Rwanda-backed M23 militia massacres 300 in DR Congo

    The Washington Post August 20, 2025 By Katharine Houreld Rwandan-backed M23 rebels killed scores of civilians An armed M23 fighter stands near civilians in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on July 24. (Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty Images) Rwandan-backed fighters from the M23 rebel group killed scores of civilians in at least 14 villages and small farming communities” in mid-July, and that the death toll could exceed M23 has now prohibited locals from farming on pain of death, three residents said.

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