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Eastern Ukraine: Disputed POW Status
Central African Republic, Coup d’Etat
Central African Republic/Democratic Republic of Congo/Uganda, LRA attacks
Syria, Syrian rebels treat captured Filipino soldiers as ‘guests’
United States of America, Military Commissions Trial Judiciary, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: United States of America v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al.
Germany, Aerial Drone Attack in Mir Ali/Pakistan
UN, Working Group on the use of Mercenaries: Preliminary Findings of Mission to Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine, OHCHR Report on the Situation: November 2016 - February 2017
Colombia Peace Agreement
Italy, Use of force against ambulances in Iraq
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