Atrocity Alert No. 247: Sudan, Central Sahel and the ICC
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DOZENS KILLED DURING INTER-COMMUNAL CLASHES IN WEST DARFUR
At least 87 people have been killed and 191 injured since violence broke out between the Arab Rizeigat and Masalit communities on Saturday, 3 April, around the city of El Geneina in West Darfur, Sudan. Members of both communities mobilized local militias after two members of the Masalit community were killed by unidentified armed men. Heavy weaponry and rocket-propelled grenades were reportedly used, hitting a hospital and a UN compound. A local power station has been destroyed and there is currently no electricity in the area. According to the UN, 108,000 internally displaced people residing in the Krinding camps in West Darfur were also forced to flee because of the violence.
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A Decade of Atrocities and International Failure in Syria
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Today, 15 March, marks ten years since the start of the conflict in Syria. Since 2011 more than 13 million people have been displaced and over 580,000 have been killed. However, we should not forget that the Syrian conflict did not begin as a civil war, but with peaceful protests during March 2011 against dictatorship, corruption and abuses of human rights. As mass protests spread to cities, towns and villages across Syria, the government responded first with bullets and then later with tanks, airstrikes and poison gas.
When non-state armed groups started to seize territory, the Syrian government besieged, deliberately starved and bombed civilians living in opposition-controlled areas. During military offensives launched by the government and their Russian allies, such as those in Aleppo in 2016 and in Idlib in 2019, airstrikes deliberately targeted protected objects – including schools, markets, hospitals, evacuat
Atrocity Alert No. 243: Myanmar (Burma), Syria and Central African Republic
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URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO END DEADLY MYANMAR COUP
Deadly attacks on peaceful protesters by Myanmar’s security forces continue. More than 60 people have been killed since the 1 February military coup ousted the civilian-led government. At least three protesters were shot dead on Monday, 8 March, in Myitkyina and Pyapon. A local National League for Democracy (NLD) official from Yangon, Khin Maung Latt, died on Sunday, 7 March, after being detained by police. His body reportedly displayed signs of torture. Since then two other NLD officials have also died in custody.