Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 13 May 2014
Syria, Uzbekistan, Kenya, Killer Robots, Ukraine, #BringBackOurGirls, Malaysia, Libya, Torture, Female Genital Mutilation
Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs loaded with chlorine gas on three towns in northern Syria in April, a new Human Rights Watch report says. The attacks used chlorine, an industrial chemical, as a weapon - an illegal act. Targeting civilians with the chemical, as Syria has, is a plain violation of international law.
UN envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, announced his resignation.
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed in an ambush that took place near the town of Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, an area that recently declared itself independent from Ukraine.
Nigeria is ready to enter into talks with Boko Haram to release the kidnapped schoolgirls, a Nigerian cabinet member said. Yesterday, Boko Haram released a video allegedly showing the schoolgirls.
French freelance photo journalist Camille Lepage, 26, was killed in Central African Republic. Two Central African journalists were killed this month in the country's capital, Bangui.
New evidence strongly suggests that Today marks the 9th anniversary of the Andijan massacre in Uzbekistan in which hundreds of largely peaceful protesters were killed by Uzbek government forces. No one has been held accountable for the killings, nor has the Uzbek government ceased in its relentless persecution and imprisonment of people it suspects of having ties to the protest.
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