All political leaders in Lebanon must clearly instruct their supporters
to fully respect human rights and to refrain from recklessly carrying
out attacks in heavily-populated areas that endanger civilians
uninvolved in the clashes, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
The Sudanese authorities have refused to arrest two government ministers suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of
Somalia has been revealed in a groundbreaking new Amnesty International
report.
Sri Lanka is a conflict where journalists face unjustified restrictions on reporting and there are very few established facts.
Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian
government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in
Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the attack, Ethiopian forces killed at
least 21 people, including 11 unarmed civilians inside the mosque, and
detained at least 40 children and youths, aged 9 to 18.
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 dead.
Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release
some 41 children held after a raid on Mogadishu’s Al Hidya mosque on 19
April 2008, which left 21 people dead. “The safety and welfare of the children, some as young as nine years
old, must be paramount for all parties,” said Amnesty International.
Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the
release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been
abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Call on India to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and mass graves in Kashmir and Jammu.
At least 18 Palestinians, including children and other unarmed
civilians, were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on
Wednesday.
