Goma has long been a refuge for more than a million civilians fleeing violence from M23 militiamen, Congolese Wounded civilians fleeing Saké by foot and on motorcycles arrived at a Goma hospital run by the International Sidibé, a senior surgeon with the group, said he and his colleagues have been treating twice as many civilians

Meanwhile, the civilian coalition Taqaddum split into two factions: Qimam, aligned with the RSF, and While the SAF and RSF profess their commitment to Sudanese unity, they are backed by opposing civilian The belligerents would defer more to their external supporters than the AU, and civilians and internal

The M23 offensive has killed over 7,000 civilians since January 2025. weapons, pay fighters, and fund massacres, forced displacement, forced labor, and atrocities against civilians Critics of conflict minerals sanctions programs point out that such programs often hurt the civilians   – which can disproportionately affect civilians or further entrench illicit trade networks. The M23 militia’s resurgence – capturing territory and killing and torturing civilians with apparent

The UNJHRO learned that this officer in civilian clothes was taken from an ambulance by a crowd and lynched While we acknowledge and condemn any ethnically-charged attacks on civilians that may have been perpetrated by armed groups claiming to represent the Banyamulenge, it is important to note that Banyamulenge civilians are essentially unarmed civilians who have been disproportionately targeted with violence and hate speech In particular, Major Kaminzobe’s death follows decades of Banyamulenge members of the FARDC being targeted

“It’s not too late for civilian and military authorities to work with this mission to establish the facts Myanmar military launched “area clearance operations,” forcing the displacement of more than 100,000 civilians killings, torture, forced labor, rape and other acts of sexual violence, arbitrary detention, attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and pillaging of property by the Myanmar Army in Kachin and Shan states since

terrorist militia committing genocide, crimes against humanity, and unprecedented atrocities against civilians now asking: how many more atrocities and massacres must the Janjaweed militia commit against Sudanese civilians

The nationals are accused of crimes including murder, extermination and attacking civilians Israeli soldiers They are accused of crimes including murder, extermination, attacking civilians and the deportation or

This has been one of the deadliest and most destructive attacks that innocent civilians in West Darfur armed Arab militiamen encircled Kereneik and began opening fire and going home to home and killing civilians The withdrawal of the peacekeeping force in Darfur means there are no civilian protection mechanisms These attacks are systematic and directed toward civilians from the indigenous African tribes who were Immediate action must be immediately taken in order to stop violence against innocent civilians before

primarily motivated by religion or being trained by the jihadists, saying they went to fight to defend civilian Challenged over whether they had taken part in civilian attacks, the men were divided. "They grabbed the men, and they beat them to death. My husband was a farmer.

frontlines, sexual violence and human rights abuses remain rampant, as is the looting and destruction of civilian The UNHCR official highlighted other risks faced by civilians, including the dangers posed by explosive

Given their history — they are successors to the janjaweed militias that once brutalized civilians — Instead of trying to conceal the razing of homes and mistreatment of civilians, they record it.

The Anfal genocide resulted in the deaths of 180,000 people and the destruction of ninety percent of UN investigators estimate that since 2014, over 5,000 Yazidi civilians have been massacred , 7,000 have