the Organization ACLED recently unveiled its annual list of the world’s deadly conflicts. ACLED is an acronym for the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a US-based group of researchers who collect data on political violence in the world – over of 420,000 events were tested last year.
Syria is leading the dismal five-in-top-the list of civilians killed in armed conflict. With 7.225 in 2018, Syria is harder hit than the next four countries together. Nigeria comes next, with 2.988 killed civilians, followed by Yemen (2.330 dead), and Afghanistan with 1.499 men, women and children killed.
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is everyone involved in the civil war. In Nigeria is the deadly conflicts, often about land disputes with an ethnic/religious elements.
In the Philippines were killed 1.089 civil during the last year. The Philippines reports the death rate for civilians is over the limit for a full-scale armed conflict (which means a 1,000 military and civilian casualties) has surprised many analysts. The authors of the report explains the startling figure with president Rodrigo Dutertes contentious ”war on drugs”.
”the Philippines may, in fact, be likened to a disguised war zone”, it was named in the annual report.
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Since Duterte started his crusade against the narkotikatrafiken nearly three years ago has over 4,000 people have been killed, but human rights groups claim that the figure may be three times as high. Critics argue that the deaths in too many cases, can be compared with extrajudicial executions, while the authorities say that it is about the shootings in connection with operations against the knarkbrottslingar.
the number of dead civilians has fallen significantly – by 22 percent – compared with the year before. Mainly thanks to the fact that the fighting in Syria has entered a more low-intensity phase. But some countries, such as Yemen and Mali, reports a clear increase in the number of civilian casualties.
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