Robert Lansing Institute – January 13th, 2022 Original Article Mysterious Russian are more and more involved in killlings and war crimes. Using light weapons hand guns and up to the armored vehicle, paratroopers killed in Almaty the 06th of January. They have been charged of war crimes in 2014-2015 during the Russian unofficial assault in…
BBC – December 19th, 2021 Original Article This week the European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organisation accused of committing human rights abuses in the Central African Republic and elsewhere. The EU has said that it will no longer train CAR government soldiers because of their links to Wagner. In…
December 13th, 2021 The Council today adopted a set of restrictive measures against the Wagner Group, a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity. The measures target the Wagner group itself, and eight individuals and three entities connected to it. The Wagner Group has recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world…
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…
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,…
RFI – May 2021 Original article The brutal methods of Russian “instructors” fighting alongside the Central African army are causing increasing fear and concern. On March 31, the United Nations Working Group on Mercenaries warned of a long series of serious human rights abuses attributed to them. RFI had access to numerous confidential documents and…
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA – 31 March 2021 Original Report A group of UN experts* today expressed alarm at theincreased recruitment and use of private military and foreign security contractors by the Government of Central African Republic, and their close contacts with UN peacekeepers. The Working Group on…
How a shady network of operatives serves as the tip of the spear in Russia’s global influence efforts with almost no accountability. Amy Mackinnon – Foreign Policy – June 11, 2020 Original Article Late last November, videos of a gruesome killing went viral on Russian social networks. The shaky cell phone footage taken at al-Shaer…
