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Security Force Monitor supports human rights researchers, litigators and investigative journalists working to make state security forces more accountable.
We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of security force units and investigate their potential connections to alleged human rights violations.
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We conduct open source research and publish detailed information about the command structures of the police, military and other branches of state controlled security forces around the world.
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Latest news from Security Force Monitor
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Here’s 11,904 rows of new data from the US Department of State’s 2018-2019 Foreign Military Training Report
This weekend, security and human rights wonks received an early Christmas present from the U.S. Department of State: the Foreign Military Training and DoD Engagement Activities of Interest, 2018-2019. We turned it into data you can use.
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Investigating Drug Related Killings in the Philippines
An investigation by the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism finds almost 1,400 drug related killings in Manila were not included in official counts, more than doubling the total number.
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Unlocking the Department of State’s foreign military training data for good this time
Security Force Monitor has crunched 5,600 pages of State Department PDFs to create new version of the U.S. foreign military training data. Today we release a tool to explore these 200,000 rows of data.
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The structure and operations of the Myanmar Army in Rakhine State: a review of open source evidence
The Myanmar Army stands accused of committing war crimes in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017. In this review of open source evidence, we identify the deployment and chain of command of 28 army units deployed to Rakhine State during that time.