Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private army, the Wagner Group, is being condemned by the United Nations experts from the Human Rights Council, and independent investigators, for committing war crimes and murdering civilians. The Wagner Group is a Russian mercenary militia that offers its services “for delicate missions abroad,” in exchange for access to the natural resource riches of the host nation.
While the Wagner Group has played a role in Syria and Ukraine, it is on the African continent where its domestic interference and human rights abuses have been most evident.
