China recently achieved its poverty alleviation goal in 2020, by lifting its entire population out of extreme poverty. How did the country do this? In the third episode, Tangen takes a look at China's efforts to
Russia's relentlessness led to accusations of atrocities, with allegations thata theatreanda maternity hospitalwere hit. Mark Stone reported ona claim a Russian bomb hit a makeshift hospital in the Azovstal steel plant- which had become a refuge for civilians...
This article analyses the high-profile drone strike that killed 10 civilians in Kabul on 29 August 2021 to consider the limits and possibilities of witnessing drone strikes, alongside the database of conflict monitor Airwars and the aesthetic practice of the research agency Forensic Architecture. It...
The most dramatic report was on drone strikes in Syria in which civilians were killed, at least three of whom were British citizens. David Cameron explained in 2015 that the deaths were the first time a UK drone had been used to kill someone in a country with which Britain was not at ...
-U.S. special-operations forces have targeted militantswithout trialin secret assassination missions, and many more Afghan civilians have been killed by accident than previously reported, according to the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war document dump. ...
(AFRICOM) acknowledges that its operations have killed five and injured 11 Somali civilians, estimates from independent monitoring groups have put the true toll much higher. The U.K. nonprofitAirwarsestimates that between 78 and 154 Somali civilians have died in strikes either confirmed or likely ...
Worse, by refusing to hear those cases, judges in the prior decisions inadvertently created a legal framework for future drone strikes. The most glaring example involved a hushed-up catastrophe six years before. Kareem in Syria. August 29th, 2012,a small town in eastern Yemen called Khashamir....
This has led many social scientists to refer to such tactics as the "weapon of the weak." Yet while guerilla warfare may entail violence against civilians, it isn't generally defined by it. This leads us back to the more specific definition of terrorism as the systematic use of violence ...
But when a target travels into Somalia, “that’s his ass”, the former official added, referring to the deadly US programme of drone strikes, backed by special force raids. ‘Less constraint’ Kenya’s burgeoning role in regional counter-terrorism in this period ...
Two, it demonstrated that they had no compunction about killing as many civilians as possible. There's a very famous formulation about terrorism from the 1970s by Bryan Jenkins, one of the main academics to study terrorism in this country: you want a lot of people ...