was the likely reason for the AA’s fierce drone and artillery attack that killed hundreds of Rohingya civilians

Reporters also interviewed five civilian healthcare workers and nine security personnel involved in the In addition, Reuters reviewed copies of military documents and civilian hospital records describing or Central to the abortion program is a notion widely held within the military and among some civilians “It’s just like sanitizing the society,” said a civilian health worker, one of seven people who acknowledged Health workers at civilian hospitals said their orders to perform abortions came from army officers.

After the death of Tito in 1980, Serbian President Slobodan Miloševi ć promoted a “Greater Serbia” ideology Both Serbian forces  and the KLA committed atrocities against civilians.

extremely worried” about the situation in Niger and warned of the “terrible effects on development” and civilians Armed groups in Niger have carried out attacks on civilians and military personnel, but the overall security “We firmly condemn the coup that took place in Niger against the country’s civilian democratic authorities

A Rwandophone lieutenant colonel was brutalized by civilians and police in Kisangani, and a Banyamulenge They killed 62 displaced Hema in February, displaying MONUSCO’s insufficient capacity to protect civilians LUCHA and populist politicians have said MONUSCO should withdraw if it continues to fail to protect civilians , yet this would put civilians at more risk. capabilities, preparing to rapidly redeploy its forces to all conflict hotspots and use force to protect all civilians

Its mandate included protecting civilians, aiding in implementing a 2015 peace agreement between the that includes helping the Malian government restore stability in central Mali, while also protecting civilians This year, the unrest including armed group attacks and intercommunity violence has so far killed 580 civilians called for a "major drawdown" in the mission and that it be repurposed with the sole aim of protecting civilians Most recently, in June, a Fulani association accused the Malian army of massacring dozens of civilians

oppressively for a time, and finally began fighting each other while also slaughtering and starving civilians retreat to their barracks — each reassured that at least the other would not assume power — so that civilian proposed a UN Security Council Resolution on Sudan to re-establish a 10,000 person armed force to protect civilians will suffer whatever happens, but the toll of famine will depend partly on us: It could be 500,000 deaths

Those killed, including fighters and civilians, were all men, but as security forces maintain a presence the military was “part of a deliberate, well-planned strategy to intimidate, terrorise and punish a civilian , and in July, Radio Free Asia reported that a woman in Kachin State was found raped and stabbed to death She is among at least 15,000 civilians displaced by intense clashes since April in Kani township, located military has not released any public statements or responded to media inquiries in response to the deaths

prosecutors and government officials have managed to monitor the situation closely, drawing on accounts from civilians Russian forces are holding about 22,000 Ukrainians, roughly 8,000 of them prisoners of war and the rest civilians The Kremlin has denied that its soldiers torture civilians. hundreds of abuses  occurring under Russian occupation from enforced disappearances, summary executions of civilians rapporteur on torture, said last year that torture and sexual assault by Russian soldiers of Ukrainian civilians

“The situation poses serious threats to the lives and safety of innocent civilians,” the ministry said

During the almost intolerable violence, the young women’s minds drifted to escape or death. Map: The brutal toll of Boko Haram’s attacks on civilians Most of the surviving women no longer have Twenty-one of those female attackers were under the age of 18, many of them girls apparently abducted But the fighters immediately started killing the male civilians who couldn’t escape.

By Deanna Wilken and Nat Hill Genocide Watch staff have published the twenty-third Timestream in a series