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Africa
12/27/2023 1:27:09 PM
Gunmen attacked remote villages over the weekend in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, killing at least 140 people, officials and survivors said Tuesday, the latest case this year of such mass killings blamed on the farmer-herder crisis in the West African nation.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/6/2023 9:34:00 AM
Entering its 30th day, Israel's war on Gaza continues with mass killings, airstrikes, and ground operations. Israeli forces have yet to achieve any significant victory, except for killing nearly 9,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and displacing more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people. The humanitarian situation is dire, with accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing leading to an increasing global outcry.
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Africa
4/25/2023 7:37:44 PM
The accounts are horrific. Women killed while carrying babies on their backs, the wounded hunted down and villagers watching the execution of their neighbors, fearing they'd be next. These are some of the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Burkina Faso's security forces in the north of the country, according to a statement Tuesday by locals from the village of Karma where the violence took place.
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World
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Africa
7/18/2022 12:26:19 PM
An explosion of violence in South Sudan is raising fears that the country's fragile peace agreement will unravel before elections the international community hopes can be held next year.
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World
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Africa
7/6/2022 9:04:06 PM
Ethiopian lawmakers decided on Wednesday to set up a committee to investigate "inhumane" acts against civilians, after reports of massacres in a restive area in the west of the country.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2022 8:34:40 PM
An Ethiopian rebel group on Tuesday denied accusations it was responsible for a massacre of civilians in the restive far west of the country, and pointed the finger of blame instead at government-allied militias.
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World
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Africa
6/24/2022 4:29:23 PM
An Ethiopian rebel group called Friday for an independent probe into mass killings in the west of the country, saying the government could not be trusted to carry out an impartial investigation.
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World
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Africa
6/23/2022 12:09:16 PM
The UN rights chief said Thursday she was "horrified" at accounts of attacks in western Ethiopia that left hundreds dead at the weekend, urging authorities to hold "prompt, impartial and thorough investigations".
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World
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Africa
6/21/2022 8:14:20 PM
The United States on Tuesday voiced revulsion over reports of hundreds of deaths in mass killings in Ethiopia as it renewed a call for a peaceful resolution of differences.
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World
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Africa
6/21/2022 11:04:38 AM
Suspected jihadists massacred more than 130 civilians over the weekend in neighbouring central Mali towns, the latest mass killings in the Sahel region.
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World
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International
5/25/2022 1:43:21 PM
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school in a rampage that also left two adults dead, officials said, adding to a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
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World
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Africa
9/15/2021 6:14:14 PM
Chenna is located in Ethiopia's Amhara region which lies south of Tigray, where fighting broke out last November between pro-government forces and the TPLF
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World
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Africa
8/9/2021 3:26:23 PM
Civilians are increasingly coming under attack as well, with hundreds killed since January in a series of mass killings in villages near the border of Niger and Mali
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World
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International
5/9/2021 9:31:23 AM
Pro-independence protests broke out after a rally on May 8, 1945 marking the allied victory over Nazi Germany
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World
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Africa
2/27/2021 10:46:30 AM
Amnesty said it had spoken to 41 witnesses who described the mass killings of "many hundreds of civilians" by Eritrean troops in Axum, an ancient city in northern Ethiopia
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World
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Africa
11/13/2020 12:47:27 PM
Mass killings reported by Amnesty International, if confirmed as having been committed by a party to the conflict, would amount to war crimes, UN rights chief said
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World
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International
12/28/2019 1:12:21 PM
In all, there were 41 mass killings, defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator. Of those, 33 were mass shootings. More than 210 people were killed
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World
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6/26/2016 10:19:17 AM
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World
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11/2/2014 11:26:46 AM
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World
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Region
10/5/2013 4:10:38 PM
Shelling of isolated Sunni town Al-Mitras could signal another wave of mass killings by pro-Assad militias
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