In attacking
civilian properties, he said the NPA has justified the "persona non-grata" being declared against it by communities and local government units.
Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) continued to cause the majority of
civilian casualties, the report said.
While the number of
civilians killed and injured is 27 per cent down from the same period in 2018 - the year that saw record high numbers of recorded
civilian casualties - the UN noted "disturbing patterns", such as the 27 per cent increase in
civilian deaths in the second quarter of 2019 compared with the first.
In the same period,
civilian casualties attributed to the Taliban and other militant groups decreased 43% as compared to 2018, according to a fresh report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
'President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has driven this violence, with alleged drug suspects accounting for almost 75 percent of this year's
civilian deaths,' it said.
It is encouraging that both the Taliban and the group of Afghan delegates, which also included members of the Afghan government, are on board as far as
civilian casualties are concerned.
The Pentagon report said there was a difference in
civilian casualty assessments between the U.S.
From Jan 1 to March 31, the UNAMA documented 1,773
civilian casualties 581 deaths and 1,192 injured.
ISPR added that besides deliberately targeting
civilians, India continues with false claims, alleging Pakistan Army for targeting
civilian population across the LoC in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
The US intensified its air campaign against Taliban and Daesh fighters as Washington seeks to pile pressure on the militants, dropping twice as many munitions on insurgent positions in 2018 compared to the previous year.Yamamoto said the
civilian casualties were wholly unacceptable" and called on all parties to take immediate and additional concrete steps to stop a further escalation in the number of
civilians harmed and lives destroyed".
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct 11 ( ANI ): The number of Afghan
civilians killed or wounded by aerial attacks rose to 39 per cent during the first nine months of this year, as the overall
civilian casualties remained at "extreme levels", the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.
A special report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) revealed that between 1 January and 30 September 2018, IEDs have caused almost half of the
civilian casualties from conflict-related violence.
The ISPR press statement said that Indian security forces opened fire on
civilian population at Kotkoterra Sector.
The terms 'densely populated areas' and 'populated areas' should be understood as synonymous with 'concentration of
civilians,' defined in international humanitarian law (IHL) as 'a city, town, village or other areas containing a similar concentration of
civilian or
civilians objects.'
The Army is committed to
civilian professional development and has defined 32 career programs to manage its human capital.
