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You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has denied Russian claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin that was intended to kill the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian […]

Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan committed apparent war crimes in attacks on civilians during their brief but intense armed border conflict in September 2022. The families of victims deserve justice and reparations to pave the way for a rights-respecting resolution to this ongoing dispute.

Analysis in English on Kyrgyzstan and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights; published on 2 May 2023 by HRW

Human Rights Watch says in a detailed report on the September 2022 Kyrgyz-Tajik border conflict that forces on both sides may have committed war crimes in targeting civilians.

Weapons that have been outlawed in the accord, youre seeing the russian led separatists doing things that are law of war violations when their targeting civilians and it is just reprehensible across the board. and weve seen in the past, unfortunately, when the united states even partnered or coordinated with russia in syria, these kinds of things would take place, the shelling of schools, the shelling of hospitals, purposely done. now i dont know if this strike was purposeful on that kindergarte...

So if the president were to conclude on the basis of information which i dont have, im not privy to, if he were to find out this incident was connected to the war on terror, it could be possible that the president could make a finding that this individual is an enemy combatant and then not only would the individual be subject to prosecution for state offenses and federal offenses but also offenses against the law of war because clearly there are law of war violations if indeed this is an enemy c...