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In late 2021 and throughout 2022 Catholic Bayingyi villages were targeted by the Tatmadaw in Sagaing region, leading to at least 5 civilian deaths. [9] Over the course of a week in 2023, army troops in Sagaing killed a total of 99 villagers, beheaded 20 resistance fighters, and raped at least 3 women. [10]
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Collective punishment. Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator. Because individuals who are not responsible for the acts are targeted, collective ...
On 14 August 1974, [6] after the start of Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda, 89 (or 84 [7]) people from Maratha and Santalaris, and a further 37 people from the village of Aloda were killed. [1] [8] In total, 126 [9] people were killed. [6] The massacre occurred on the same day before the second Turkish ...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reported in February 2006 that he had received 240 communications in connection with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 which alleged that various war crimes had been committed. The overwhelming majority of these communications came from individuals and groups within the United States and ...
Violence against women. Forced pregnancy is the practice of forcing a woman or girl to become pregnant or remain pregnant against her will. This act is often as part of a forced marriage, as part of a programme of breeding slaves, or as part of a programme of genocide. [1] Forced pregnancy is a form of reproductive coercion.
Japanese war crimes. During its imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been referred to as "the Asian Holocaust ", [3] [4] as "Japan's Holocaust", [5] and also as the "Rape of ...
The crimes by the Yugoslav military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture. [29] Although numbers are difficult to determine, following the conflict, there were cases of women committing suicide, aborting their pregnancies, giving birth to children and later raising them or placing them up for ...