Novaya Gazeta – October 19, 2021 Original article The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation ignores the statement and complaints of Abdullah Elismail, the brother of Syrian Mohammed Elismail, who was killed by alleged militants of the Wagner PMC in 2017. This is stated in the statement of the human rights center “Memorial”* and lawyers…
The death of member of Wagner in Moscow allowed the DFRLab to conduct an investigation on the mercenary’s neo-Nazi affiliation. DFRLab – October 7th 2021 Original article The death of Voskanyan was followed by several indications that he was a member of Rusich. First, the mercenary batallion member Evgeniy Eduardovich Rasskazov, known as « Topaz », was…
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including by external actors, a Human Rights Council-appointed probe said on Monday. United Nations – October 4, 2021 Original Report From arbitrary detention to torture, the recruitment of child soldiers and mass killings, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on…
When the UN report was published, the Central African government considered these accusations to be “mere denunciations”. Le Monde – October 01, 2021 Original article Six months after the release of an UN report accusing Russian mercenaries of abuses in CAR, the government acknowledged part of the facts on Friday through the voice of its…
August 11, 2021 By Ilya Barabanov & Nader IbrahimBBC News Russian & BBC News Arabic Original Article A BBC investigation has revealed the scale of operations by a shadowy Russian mercenary group in Libya’s civil war, which includes links to war crimes and the Russian military. A Samsung tablet left by a fighter for the…
The private military company (PMC) Wagner Group has secretly woven its web in Africa. The mercenaries have gained influence with opaque dealings, gradually increasing the areas in which the group is operating. The Wagner Group is an informal network of companies revolving around private security, but also involved in mining, communication, propaganda, diplomacy, technologies and…
Lenta.ru – Varvara Koshechkina – May 20, 2021 Original Article Russian mercenaries stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR) to support government forces have been implicated in killings and rapes. They were accused of this by VICE World News, which collected a number of evidence of war crimes of Russians against the local population. At…
An investigation by Vice uncovers human rights violations committed by mercenaries of the Wagner Group. Together with local forces they are supposed to train, they rape and murder local civilians. Julia Steers – Vice – May 19; 2021 Original Article The Wagner Group was hired to protect the population in the Central African Republic. However,…
Mercenaries from a Russian company committed atrocities in a mosque in the city of Bambari Ahmet Emin Dönmez, Elmira Ekberova – 07 May 2021 Original Article ANKARA Mercenaries from the Russian PMC Wagner “raped women and children, killed and tortured” civilians of the Central African Republic (CAR) during the attack on the al-Tagwa mosque in…
The Russian military in the CAR kill and rob civilians, reports International French Radio, citing eyewitnesses. According to sources, there are from 800 to 2200 Russian mercenaries in this country. DW – Sergey Romashenko – May 05, 2021 Original Article Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic (CAR), fighting on the side of government troops,…
