The private military company (PMC) Wagner Group has secretly woven its web in Africa. The mercenaries have gained influence with opaque dealings, gradually increasing the areas in which the group is operating. The Wagner Group is an informal network of companies revolving around private security, but also involved in mining, communication, propaganda, diplomacy, technologies and…
Lenta.ru – Varvara Koshechkina – May 20, 2021 Original Article Russian mercenaries stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR) to support government forces have been implicated in killings and rapes. They were accused of this by VICE World News, which collected a number of evidence of war crimes of Russians against the local population. At…
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,…
Mercenaries from a Russian company committed atrocities in a mosque in the city of Bambari Ahmet Emin Dönmez, Elmira Ekberova – 07 May 2021 Original Article ANKARA Mercenaries from the Russian PMC Wagner “raped women and children, killed and tortured” civilians of the Central African Republic (CAR) during the attack on the al-Tagwa mosque in…
The Russian military in the CAR kill and rob civilians, reports International French Radio, citing eyewitnesses. According to sources, there are from 800 to 2200 Russian mercenaries in this country. DW – Sergey Romashenko – May 05, 2021 Original Article Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic (CAR), fighting on the side of government troops,…
In the CAR, both local and Chinese suffer from the “Wagnerites” That’s Right – Evgeny Chernukhin – 03 May 2021 Original article Russians took everything in Central African Republic. In the Central African Republic, government troops, supported by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC, are pushing back the rebels, establishing their control over more and…
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…
A murder in Syria might finally prove that the Kremlin is responsible for human rights violations by the Wagner Group of Russian mercenaries Ilya Nuzov – Open Democracy – 26 March 2021 Original Article In June 2017, a video emerged online of several Russian-speaking men in camouflage uniforms beating an unarmed civilian with a sledgehammer,…
Lawsuit filed against mercenaries of the Wagner Group. Impunity has to stop. FIDH – March 22, 2021 Original Report After a Syrian citizen was tortured, mutilated and killed by mercenaries allegedly working for the private military company (PMC) Wagner, his family filed a lawsuit against the individuals who committed these crimes. The International Federation for…
In line with Russia’s geostrategic vision, private military company trying to expand influence in continent, says report Mustapha Dalaa, Halime Afra Aksoy – Anadolu agency – March 05, 2021 Original Article ISTANBUL Although Moscow does not officially recognize its activities, Wagner – a private Russian military company – is reportedly operating under different names and…
