COVID-19 & Violence Targeting Civilians: Nigeria First, India Second

Nigeria and India have witnessed the largest and the second-largest increase in violence targeting civilians in the post-pandemic period, as per the latest report from the US organisation Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).
“Different actors ramped up their targeting of civilians across countries, resulting in different forms of violence expanding across different regions. In Nigeria, the country with the largest increase in violence targeting civilians over the past three months, communal militias were largely to blame: ACLED records an increase from 70 events to 175 events of communal militia targeting of civilians across Nigeria during this period,” the report said.
India had the second-largest increase as state forces resorted to violence in an attempt to enforce lockdown measures, along with targeting of minority groups or healthcare workers suspected of spreading the virus. At the third place is the South American country Mexico, the Democratic Republic of Congo at number four, Uganda at fifth position and warn-torn nation Afghanistan is at the sixth spot.
India had the second-largest increase as state forces resorted to violence in an attempt to enforce lockdown measures, along with targeting of minority groups or healthcare workers suspected of spreading the virus. At the third place is the South American country Mexico, the Democratic Republic of Congo at number four, Uganda at fifth position and warn-torn nation Afghanistan is at the sixth spot.
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