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Luke Moffett
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Prof of Human Rights and #IHL researching on redress, civilian harm, OSINT and AI, working on rewilding the north coast

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · Mar 31
Our new podcast series on Civilian Harm and Redress is now out with a first episode with @niaolainf.bsky.social @maethompson.bsky.social @mglattimer.bsky.social @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social
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Civilian Harm in Conflict - The United Kingdom
Civilian Harm in Conflict, Ep. 1: Mae Thompson, Ceasefire advocacy officer, hosts this podcast series, part of the AHRC-funded 'Reparations during Armed Conflict' project.
lawpod.org

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 1d
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians - “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an #IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d
A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
Geolocating Darfur Killings of Those Escaping Al Fashir - bellingcat
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted. A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass k...
www.bellingcat.com

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 6d
In withdrawing from the UN’s human rights monitoring process, the UPR, the United States "undermines this foundational universality and stymies both domestic and international accountability efforts and risks contributing to further regression in global human rights" www.ejiltalk.org/opting-out-o...
Opting Out of Accountability: The United States and the Implications of Withdrawal from the Universal Periodic Review
On 28th August 2025, the United States of America (USA) took the step of withdrawing from the UN’s human rights monitoring process, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The peer review process, throug...
www.ejiltalk.org

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 6d
Drone strike by RSF hits funeral in Sudan, killing at least 40 mourners
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Sudan war: RSF blamed for drone strike that hits funeral near el-Obeid killing many mourners
The paramilitary RSF has been blamed for the attack as fighting in the oil-rich Kordofan area intensifies.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6d
Airwars has published an interactive tool tracking all publicly declared U.S. strikes targeting small boats in the Caribbean & Pacific.

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U.S. Military in Latin America and the Caribbean
Airwars tracking of U.S. military strikes against alleged 'narco-terrorists' in small boats
airwars.org

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 7d
Northern Ireland families are awaiting justice for crimes committed during the 1969 to 1998 conflict, @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write.

A legislative battle is brewing in the U.K. Parliament over efforts aimed at accountability.

www.justsecurity.org/123679/legal...
Legal Progress Stalls for Northern Ireland Families
The coming months will show whether the UK has the political will to deliver long-overdue truth and justice in Northern Ireland.
www.justsecurity.org

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8d
Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’
System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store
www.theguardian.com

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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 9d
JIB/JAB is back for a new season - in Episode 41, I speak with @bcfinucane.bsky.social of @crisisgroup.org about the U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers, and its implications for the international rule of law:
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Opinio Juris @opiniojuris.bsky.social · 10d
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Abolish War, Not Humanize It: Tolstoy’s Radical Pacifism vs the Geneva Settlement

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Abolish War, Not Humanize It: Tolstoy’s Radical Pacifism vs the Geneva Settlement
[Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and reader] “They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. It’s all rubbish! … War is…
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Opinio Juris @opiniojuris.bsky.social · 10d
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Playing the Genocidaire? The Erasure of the Reachfolk in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Playing the Genocidaire? The Erasure of the Reachfolk in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
[Laurence Atkin-Teillet is a lecturer in international criminal and humanitarian law at Nottingham Law School] There are no innocent onlookers in this struggle. Just the guilty, and the dead.Braig …
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 11d
"Warnings were unheeded, civilians were left defenseless, & the RSF’s main patron – the UAE – continued to receive arms (including from Western nations) even as it passed them on to a genocidal militia."

An atrocity foretold: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... #KeepEyesOnSudan
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 11d
There are thousands of real videos and images, but still some depraved individual created an AI image of woman and child facing Sudan gunmen to muddy the water
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Verifying new evidence of RSF involvement in Sudan civil war executions
Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 11d
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts #ElFasher #Sudan #warcrimes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts
Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’
www.theguardian.com

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 11d
‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher
Thousands have fled the North Darfur city in terror with stories of the Rapid Support Forces attacking and killing civilians
www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid
‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid
Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault
www.theguardian.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 12d
#Google and #Amazon agreed secret warning system with #Israel to tip them off if there was any potential sharing of #data with courts or other legal authorities:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 13d
A surge in drone attacks and airstrikes across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has left families traumatised, schools emptied, and thousands displaced.

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Children under fire as Pakistan drone war escalates
A surge in drone attacks and airstrikes across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has left families traumatised, schools emptied, and thousands displaced.
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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 13d
This needs to be called what it is - genocide in El Fasher, that has building to this crescendo in the war

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13d
Gaza ceasefire under threat as Israel kills nine in airstrikes and artillery fire
Gaza ceasefire under threat as Israel kills nine in airstrikes and artillery fire
Hamas accused of delaying hostage return as militant group denies involvement in fire on Israeli troops
www.irishtimes.com

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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 13d
For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings

news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher
After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher in Darfur, triggering widespread fear among families, and forcing th...
news.un.org

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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 13d
"'El-Fasher appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing of Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti indigenous non-Arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution.'"

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Yale report finds evidence of RSF mass killings in Sudan’s el-Fasher
Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.
www.aljazeera.com

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 13d
“It is likely that thousands are being killed at the moment, and many thousands more are at risk if the RSF is not restrained.”

Massacres under way in Darfur after militia captures besieged city, reports say: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #KeepEyesOnSudan
Massacres under way in Darfur after militia captures besieged city, reports say
Human rights groups had been predicting Rapid Support Forces would begin executing non-Arab civilians
www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social · 13d
U.S. intelligence agencies found that the U.A.E. increased supplies of weapons, including advanced Chinese-made drones, to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan this year, pouring fuel on a civil war that has killed as many as 150,000 people. | New from me & WSJ colleagues:
www.wsj.com/world/how-u-...
Exclusive | How U.A.E. Arms Bolstered a Sudanese Militia Accused of Genocide
Reports by U.S. intelligence agencies show an increase in the flow of materiel from the U.A.E. to the rebel Rapid Support Forces since the spring, according to U.S. officials.
www.wsj.com

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 13d
The evening #Ukraine read: #Ecocide #WarCrimes #Environment www.rfi.fr/en/environme...
Nearly one million hectares burn as war ravages nature across Ukraine
Nearly one million hectares of land in Ukraine have gone up in smoke this year as the Russian invasion turns forests into battlefields and leaves nature badly scarred. The fires follow the front line,...
www.rfi.fr

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 13d
2022: A #UK Ministry of Defence official leaked details of c.19,000 #Afghans who applied to move to 🇬🇧 after the #Taliban seized power.
2023: The info was put on #Facebook.

Of 231 people notified of the breach, 49 say a colleague or family member was then killed.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests
Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families
www.theguardian.com

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 13d
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
www.theguardian.com

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Opinio Juris @opiniojuris.bsky.social · 14d
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: ‘War Never Changes’ – Fallout, Restraint and the Enduring Nature of Warfare

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: ‘War Never Changes’ – Fallout, Restraint and the Enduring Nature of Warfare
[Professor Luke Moffett is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen’s University Belfast and a lone wanderer through Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76] “War. War never changes…
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14d
⚡️ Ukraine rescues 17 children from occupation, Yermak says
Ukraine rescues 17 children from occupation, Yermak says
Seventeen children and teenagers were rescued from temporarily occupied territories as part of the president’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative, Andriy Yermak said in a Telegram post on Oct. 7.
kyivindependent.com

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 15d
Inside Syria's jail for IS suspects as officials say attacks by group are rising
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16d
The materials reviewed by The Intercept also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank. interc.pt/3KZ8CY5
A photo of an Israeli Air Force Mk 84 Bomb Spice 2000, manufactured by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, shown to the journalists at the Tel Nof Air Force base on Oct. 8, 2007, overlaid with the headline, "As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers," and the DEK, "The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza."