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The Tamil Tigers had been waging a full-scale war for an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the North and East of Sri Lanka since 1983. After the failure of the Norwegian mediated peace process in 2006 the Sri Lankan military launched offensives aimed at recapturing territory controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
Cybersex trafficking, live streaming sexual abuse, [1] [2] [3] webcam sex tourism/abuse [4] or ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies)-facilitated sexual exploitation [5] is a cybercrime involving sex trafficking and the live streaming of coerced [6] [7] sexual acts and/or rape on webcam.
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report, commonly known as the Brereton Report (after the investigation head), is a report into war crimes committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) during the War in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016. [2]
During the Philippine–American War (1899–1913), numerous war crimes were committed by the U.S. military against Filipino civilians. American soldiers and other witnesses sent letters home which described some of these atrocities; for example, In 1902, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger wrote:
The accusation of the use of human shields is a common theme in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [1] has used civilians as human shields multiple times to discourage Palestinian combattants from attacking; accusations against Palestinian militant groups [2] including Hamas [3] that they use Palestinian civilians as shields are commonly made by Israel and pro ...
The Yazidis are monotheists who believe in Melek Taus, a benevolent angel who appears as a peacock. [23] The self-proclaimed Islamic State and some other Muslims in the region view the peacock angel as the malevolent creature Lucifer or Shaitan and they consider the Yazidis 'devil worshippers'.
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. [1] Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as foreign nationals.
The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / mee ly; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]