The tag also applies to attacks that target property linked to government functions or owned by local officials, including local government buildings, courts, local election centers, and/or adjacent public or private property.įor more information, read the introductory report from our special project tracking violence targeting local officials and this methodology note on the ‘local administrators’ tag. Examples of local officials are: elected or appointed officials or representatives from subnational state institutions (including former) civil servants, election officials and poll workers, local justice officials, and other local authorities and relatives of local officials or representatives. Local officials are understood as administrators who are part of subnational government institutions, from the first-level administration division down to cities, towns, and villages. This file contains events classified as violence targeting local government officials with the ‘local administrators’ tag, where 1) violence is used against local officials or administrators or 2) property owned by (or symbolic of) local government administration is targeted or destroyed.
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