An alarming level of human rights abuses against members of the “Hal- pulaar” ethnic group is being reported from the south of Mauritania. The army, security forces and the Haratine militia appear to arrest, torture and kill unarmed villagers without any fear of disciplinary action or...

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Gross and widespread violations committed in a context of armed opposition

This paper is concerned with the reported extrajudicial killing of Nicolas Caceres, a regional leader of the Paraguayan Peasant Movement, Movimento Campesino Paraguayo (MCP) and the death in custody of Francisco Baez Gomez, an active member of the peasant organization, Organizacion Nacional...

This paper updates AI’s concerns in Sri Lanka as outlined in the circular “Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial executions, “disappearances” and torture, 1987 – 1990″ (ASA 37/21/90). Although reports of extrajudicial executions and “disappearances” diminished...

This report documents 43 cases of “disappearance” reported from the northeast of Sri Lanka from mid-1987 to early 1990, the period when the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) was deployed. The IPKF were opposed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the largest separatist group...

Since mid-1987 political killings carried out by government and government backed forces in violation of the law have become the most serious human rights problem in the Philippines. Most of the victims have been suspected supporters of the communist insurgency, many of them members of legal...