49 h. ago Serbia's current president is accused of involvement in Sarajevo 'human safaris' where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

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50 h. ago Serbia's current president is accused of taking part in Sarajevo 'human safaris' where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

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54 h. ago Any Ukraine peace plan needs Kyiv and Europe ‘on board’, says EU – Europe live

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas leads reaction as reports circulate about a secret plan between Moscow and Washington to end the warUkrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko has met with US army secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, saying the pair had a chance “to assess the situation on the ground and to witness first-hand the consequences of Russian aggression.”“While Russia continues killing innocent civilians, destroying homes, and targeting critical infrastructure, the strategy of pressure on Russia is proving effective. It is crucial to further strengthen energy and financial sanctions against the aggressor state,” she said. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Sarajevo 'human safari' hunters must HANG': Massacre survivors demand death penalty for tourists who paid to shoot civilians during 1990s siege

More than 11,000 civilians were killed during the 1992 to 1995 siege, when Bosnian Serb forces surrounded Sarajevo and fired on the city from the hills above it.

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4 d. ago Investigation launched into reports of ‘sniper tourism’ during siege of Sarajevo

Around 11,000 civilians were killed by shelling and sniper fire

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4 d. ago Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak

The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move onGenocide is a process, not an event. When genocide happens, its roots, and the conditions that allowed it, often become visible only in retrospect. If those conditions remain unchanged and there is no accountability, there’s every reason to believe the violence will return, perhaps even worse, especially if it was never fully halted. This is exactly what we are seeing in the case of Gaza. Demanding accountability from Israeli leaders isn’t just about the past, it’s the only way to challenge a system designed to repeat such violence.A strange kind of calm has settled over Israel in the weeks since the Gaza ceasefire was declared. The sirens stopped. The hostages who survived the 7 October attack and nearly two years in captivity came home. But this calm – which has not been extended to Gaza, where more than 200 civilians have been killed since the ceasefire supposedly went into effect is built ...

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6 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Drones hit Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery

Russian attacks kill four on Saturday; Serbian government faces deadline to oust Russian owners from state oil company. What we know on day 1,362 Ukraine’s army said on Saturday it struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region near Moscow, as “part of efforts to reduce the enemy’s ability to launch missile and bomb strikes”. Explosions and a large fire were observed at the site, said the military. Ryazan is located about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Moscow.Russian officials often do not admit such attacks have succeeded, and the Ryazan governor, Pavel Malkov, adopted the standard line that Ukrainian drones were shot down but debris happened to hit the target. “Falling debris caused a fire on the premises of one enterprise,” Malkov said. A wave of 25 Ukrainian drones attacked the region, Malkov said.Officials in southern Ukraine said four people were killed by Russian attacks on Saturday. Prosecutors in the Kherson region said “three civilians are known to have been killed” i...

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9 d. ago Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot people in human safari hunting trip' during war

Shocking case in Italian courts claims rich foreigners took weekend trips to Bosnia to kill innocent civilians and children during the conflict, which saw more than 11,000 killed by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996

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2 w. ago Afghan official says 4 civilians killed in border clash with Pakistan during peace talks

Tensions have risen between Pakistan and Afghanistan after a clash along their shared border killed four Afghan civilians and wounded five others

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2 w. ago UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian.Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago One man’s story inside the siege of El Fasher, Sudan – podcast

What does the fall of El Fasher mean for the future of Sudan? Kaamil Ahmed reportsBy the time Mohamed Douda arrived in El Fasher, a city in the Darfur region of Sudan, the battle between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was already under way.Over the following months, as the RSF tightened their siege on the city, Douda, a community spokesperson and local activist, updated the Guardian journalist Kaamil Ahmed about the deteriorating situation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Final monkey tranquilized and recaptured after Mississippi interstate crash

Two other monkeys who evaded capture at the time of the crash were later shot and killed by civilians

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2 w. ago Sudanese militia group accused of war crimes agrees to a ceasefire

International mediators broker three-month halt to civil war as further evidence emerges of mass civilian killingsA Sudanese paramilitary group accused of killing thousands of unarmed civilians in an ethnically motivated massacre has agreed to a truce.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is facing mounting criticism over apparent war crimes committed by its fighters in the city of El Fasher last month, said it had agreed to a “humanitarian ceasefire” put forward by the quad countries of the US, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

International Organization for Migration says refugees are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced peopleMore than 36,000 people have fled Sudan’s Kordofan region east of Darfur since Saturday, the UN’s migration agency has said, a week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city of El Fasher.The strategic central area between the country’s Darfur provinces and the Khartoum-Riverine region that includes the capital to the east, has in recent weeks become the latest battleground in the two-year civil war between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Two kids among civilians killed in huge Russian blitz on Ukraine as Putin targets power plants that keep families warm

TWO children were among civilians killed in a massive Russian blitz on Ukraine yesterday. It marked the start of a bid by tyrant Vladimir Putin to freeze the country into submission. The boys, aged 11 and 14, died in the Dnipropetrovsk region along with two women. It came as Putin targeted power plants needed to...

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3 w. ago Sudanese warlord dubbed 'Butcher of the Century' arrested for his atrocities after posting TikToks of him committing brutal executions and boasting of killing more than 2,000 civilians

The sadistic fighter is one of several paramilitaries accused of abuses during the capture of the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on the atrocities in El Fasher: the responsibility for these horrors extends beyond Sudan’s borders | Editorial

The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomedNo one can claim they did not know what would happen in El Fasher. An 18-month siege had already seen war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces, including the execution of civilians and sexual violence. Warnings of the massacres that would follow when the city in Darfur fell – as it did on Sunday – were widespread.The reality was an even darker hell, in the words of UN officials. The World Health Organization says that the RSF killed 460 people in one hospital. Satellite images appear to capture bloodstains on the ground. Footage showed fighters executing unarmed men. Other captives were taken for ransom. The UN says hundreds of civilians and unarmed fighters were raped or killed while trying to flee the city, with clear evidence of ethnically targeted violence. The horrors continue. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sudan’s RSF accused of ‘PR stunt’ after arresting fighters behind civilian killings

Reports of indiscriminate violence and ethnic targeting in El Fasher has led to growing global outrageSudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim to have arrested several of their fighters after outrage over the extent of killing in the city of El Fasher continues to build.But the paramilitary group’s move has been met with scepticism from human rights campaigners and the Sudanese who see it as an attempt to temper criticism over the violence. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher

Thousands have fled the North Darfur city in terror with stories of the Rapid Support Forces attacking and killing civiliansHundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mountsNawal Khalil had been volunteering as a nurse for three years at El Fasher South hospital when the city was captured on Sunday by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). She was busy treating patients, including an elderly woman who needed a blood transfusion, when the attack began.“They killed six wounded soldiers and civilians in their beds – some of them women,” she says. “I don’t know what happened to my other patients. I had to run when they stormed the hospital.” Continue reading...

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