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In January, the military police of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro pledged to reduce killings by its officers by 20 percent by the end of the year. But from January to July, the number of police killings actually increased by 39 percent, as compared with the same period last year. Military and civil police killed 895 people during those months. At the current rate, the state will have its bloodiest year in more than a decade. While Rio Police sometimes do kill people in self-defense, research from Human Rights Watch and other groups shows that many killings are, in reality, extrajudicial executions.
Investigating the terrible toll that the war in Yemen is inflicting on civilians has become, sadly, a regular occurrence for human rights investigators. But then came last week’s deadly airstrike on a bus filled with children.
Recent ethnically and religiously-charged killings in Ethiopia’s Somali and Oromia regions point to ongoing tensions in the country requiring government attention.
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