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Russia revokes registration of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch

Russia's justice ministry said on Friday it had revoked the registration of 15 foreign organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Reuters

UN demands Mali allow peacekeepers into town where 300 died

The top U.N. envoy in Mali is demanding that the country’s military leaders allow U.N. peacekeepers to visit a town where Human Rights Watch says the Malian army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men, one of several alleged rights abuses denounced by the…

The Independent UK

Rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine is the latest example of a despicable wartime crime that spans the globe

Shocking images from Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine revealed what many suspected, that Russian soldiers were apparently committing war crimes. An image of dead naked women under a blanket on the road photographed by Mikhail Palinchak 12½ miles (20 kilometers) outside of Kyiv was tweeted by the Ministry of Defense…

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Mali opens investigation into alleged massacre in Moura village

Mali says military investigators have opened an investigation into events in the village of Moura, the site of an alleged massacre by local forces and Russian mercenaries.

Radio France Internationale

‘Bad intelligence’ behind Mali military operation that 'killed 300 civilians'

Malian troops and suspected Russian fighters allegedly executed around 300 civilian men over five days during a military operation in a central Malian town in late March, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday. FRANCE 24 terrorism expert Wassim Nasr gives his analysis, saying that this was…

France 24

Rights groups charge 'ethnic cleansing' in Ethiopia's Tigray

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International charge in a new report that widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Independent UK

Rights groups warn of 'war crimes' and 'ethnic cleansing' in Ethiopia's Tigray

Two rights groups on Wednesday accused Ethiopian security forces and their allies of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, a long-contested part of northern Ethiopia.

Radio France Internationale

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Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups

Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses Ethiopian paramilitaries of war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

Rights groups accuse Ethiopian regional forces of ethnic cleansing in Tigray

Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Tigrayans during a war that has killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than a million.

Reuters

Russian mercenaries and Malian soldiers accused of killing 300 civilians

Human Rights Watch calls for urgent investigation into alleged massacre

The Independent UK

300 killed by Mali's army and foreigners, says rights group

An international rights group says Mali's army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali

The Independent UK

Russian mercenaries and Mali army accused of killing 300 civilians

Human Rights Watch says deaths during anti-jihadist operation in Moura ‘the worst atrocity in Mali in a decade’

The Guardian - UK

Malian, foreign soldiers allegedly killed hundreds in town siege -rights group

Malian troops and suspected Russian fighters allegedly executed around 300 civilian men over five days during a military operation in a central Mali town, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday, which the country's army refuted.

Reuters

Mali: HRW condemns ‘deliberate slaughter’ of 300 men by military

Witnesses told HRW that the Malian army and foreign soldiers killed hundreds of people in the southern town of Moura.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Urged to Stop Using Land Mines in its War in Ukraine

A top official in the global campaign against the use of land mines urged Russia on Monday to stop its troops in Ukraine from laying the weapons that too often kill and maim civilians. Alicia Arango Olmos, Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and this year’s president of…

Daily Mirror

Horrendous evidence of Russian ‘war crimes’ against Ukrainians amid fresh atrocities

Russia and President Putin has been accused of genocide after numerous execution-style mass killings were uncovered on the outskirts of Kyiv after invaders retreated from Bucha

Daily Mirror

Legal experts give verdict on Vladimir Putin war crimes trial - and how it could happen

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Vladimir Putin is unlikely to succeed if he attempts to shirk responsibility for the horrors unleashed in Ukraine - but unless he is ousted and his successor does not protect him it is unlikely he will ever stand trial

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Bucha’s atrocities are not Russia’s first. They must be the last

It’s hard to read the reports emerging from Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs, and nearly impossible to look at the images. Retreating Russian soldiers have left evidence of unthinkable brutality. Ordinary men and women lie dead on the street, in the dark mud and dirt, many shot, some with hands…

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Al Jazeera

Fear grows for migrants held in Ukraine’s detention centre

An unconfirmed number of migrants appear to remain in the Zhuravychi detention centre near Lutsk city despite the war.

Daily Mirror

Fears of worse Russian war crimes to come as torture, rape and murders uncovered

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT It is feared that following evidence of summary executions, torture and rape in areas formerly controlled by Vladimir Putin's forces, worse may be uncovered in cities such as Mariupol

Bangkok Post

War in Ukraine: Latest developments

KYIV, Ukraine: Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:

Tribune News Service

Europe warns Russia faces new sanctions for ‘war crimes’

Some European Union governments are pushing for the bloc to quickly impose new sanctions in response to multiple reports that Russian troops executed unarmed civilians in Ukrainian towns, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine, US and other countries condemn Russia for alleged civilian executions

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces braced for an intensified Russian onslaught against the eastern Donbas region Sunday as officials from Ukraine, the U.S. and other countries condemned Moscow over allegations of civilian executions.

Daily Mirror

Growing list of war crime allegations as Russian troops branded 'worse than ISIS'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A bombshell report by Human Rights Watch today said evidence had been uncovered of "unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence" directed toward the Ukrainian population

Asharq Al-Awsat

Human Rights Watch Accuses Russian Forces of ‘Apparent War Crimes’ in Ukraine

A leading rights group said on Sunday it had documented what it described as "apparent war crimes" committed by Russian military forces against civilians in Ukraine. Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement saying it had found "several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations" in Russian-controlled regions such…

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