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Civilian Casualties Double Since End Of Human Rights Monitoring In Yemen

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of civilians killed or injured in Yemen has almost doubled since UN human rights monitoring ended last October, new figures show.**[By: Karl SchembriRegional Media Adviser for East Africa and Yemen](karl.schembri@nrc.no)** In the four months before the end of the human rights monitoring, 823 civilians were injured or killed in the war. In the four months that followed, it was 1,535 civilians, according to data from the Civilian Impact Monitoring Project. During the same period, 39 times more of the civilian casualties were caused by airstrikes. The UN Human …

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