Burkina Faso: Army behind most civilian deaths — report
DW →Between January 2023 and August 2025 at least 1,837 civilians were killed in some 57 incidents of violence and that of those, 33 were committed by government forces and their allies.
Cross Dead Lines Fixed by Martial Law and Citizens Are Shot by Soldiers in Augusta
Blown Up Results in Troops Being Placed to Guard Property, With Orders to Fire on Anyone Crossing Dead Line. AS the climax to the rioting in Augusta, GA, and the shooting of three citizens late Friday by State militia troops, Governor Brown Friday night issued a proclamation declaring the city of Augusta to be in a state of insurrection and ordering the immediate enforcement of martial law. Adjt. Gen. William G. O'Bear ordered by the Governor to proceed to Augusta at once from Atlanta and assume charge of the situation. Another company of militia was ordered to Augusta from Waynesboro to reinforce the four local companies under Capt. Levy. In the interval of the firing by the troops on 18th street and the hour set for a labor meeting at the Court House, the situation appeared to have calmed down, but intensity of feeling over the shooting of five people incensed the people generally, largely because they did not understand that the city is under martial law. Efforts to Secure Adjustment. During the day ceaseless efforts were made by every business faction in the city to bring about an adjustment of the street car strike, which is now but an incident of the troubled condition. The Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, and the Cotton Exchange, in joint meeting, demanded immediate arbitration by the company and the strikers, commended Mayor Barrett's position of enforcing protection of property and lives and
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Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912
The Senate's Kern Resolution of May 26, 1913, led to the United States Senate's Committee on Education and Labor opening an investigation into conditions in West Virginia coal mines. Congress almost immediately authorized two similar investigations into the copper mining industry in Michigan, and mining conditions in Colorado.
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In the aftermath of the massacre came the Ten Day War, part of the wider Colorado Coalfield War. As news of the deaths of women and children spread, the leaders of organized labor issued a call to arms. Over the next ten days, 700 to 1,000 strikers 'attacked mine after mine, driving off or killing the guards and setting fire to the buildings.'
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The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
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