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In India, a recent wave of attacks on people, who were accused of eating beef or slaughtering cows, caused a lot of outrage, but it was the murder of a 15-year-old Muslim on suspicion of carrying beef which sparked nationwide protests.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched in Geneva on Wednesday updated guidelines for investigating unlawful killings around the world.
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The United Nations human rights commission has urged the Philippines to launch a murder investigations into President Rodrigo Duterte claims he killed three people as mayor of Davao City and all killings in his war on drugs.
Jakarta rejected on Thursday the findings of an international panel of judges that declared Indonesia had committed crimes against humanity in anti-communist killings during the 1960s in which it claimed the US, Britain and Australia were complicit.
The Philippine government on Thursday hailed its war on drugs a “success”, as police confirmed killing nearly 200 people in a two-month blitz that has outraged rights groups.
Indonesia's Defence Minister said yesterday that suspected communists killed in 1960s military-backed massacres "deserved to die", as a backlash mounts against efforts to resolve one of the darkest chapters in the country's history.
Indonesian activist Adlun Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a T-shirt allegedly bearing a leftist logo, one of many caught up in a backlash against efforts to shine a light on military-backed, anti-communist massacres half a century ago.
Two soldiers are among four people arrested and charged with ritual killings that hit Lusaka, the Zambian capital in recent months, the police said on Tuesday.
Indonesia pledged on Monday (April 18) to resolve its "dark history" around one of the worst mass killings of the 20th century, but ruled out a formal apology as victims and officials came together for an unprecedented discussion into the atrocity.
The Philippine government said Tuesday that it is determined to resolve journalist killings following the death of a radio reporter on Saturday and after an international group tagged the country as one of the worst impunity havens due to consistent unresolved murders of journalists.
Authorities confirmed Monday that 34 people were shot dead over the last three days in the Brazilian city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas.
Over 191,000 people were reportedly killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2014, according to an updated United Nations study released on Friday.