The international criminal court (ICC) in the Hague has previously said there was insufficient evidence tying Nigeria's military to systematic and orchestrated atrocities targeting civilians.
Isis is the (slightly confusing) English acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, a Sunni jihadist group whose sudden capture of Mosul, Tikrit and extensive swaths of Iraqi territory last week has triggered a new crisis, complete with atrocities targeting Iraqi army soldiers and volunteers.
With the Daesh genocide that was unleashed in 2014, the high hope was that such atrocities targeting religious groups, especially religious minorities, would finally be taken seriously.
The country's leader has failed to speak out against atrocities targeting the country's Rohingya minority, Amnesty said.
UNICEF is calling for an end to the atrocities targeting civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine State, and for humanitarian actors to be given immediate and unfettered access to all children affected by the violence there.
On 14 November Islamic State claimed it had carried out the atrocities, which targeted mostly young people enjoying a night out in bars and restaurants, and at a rock concert and a football match.
MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation's gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists.
Even there, though, 1984 fails to reflect the extent to which Stalin's worst atrocities were targeted at marginal groups in the Soviet Union — Ukrainians, Poles, Jews.
Hence, preserving and protecting human dignity of all is the first and crucial step to prevent mass atrocities, especially identity targeting atrocities like genocide.
"The collapse of the regime will lead to atrocities, communities targeting communities, as in Rwanda," he said.
