According to Amnesty International: "During the protests, the gendarmerie (military police), the national army including the Presidential Security Regiment (Régiment de Sécurité Présidentielle, RSP), and the police were deployed.[...] Others who were peacefully marching on 30 October and 2 November were also shot and wounded. In these instances, security forces used excessive force; their actions were not required to protect life nor were they in self-defence. In these cases, based on witness testimony, no warning was given and there was no attempt to use other, less lethal, methods first. An artist who was shot in the abdomen and arm, and whose hand was in plaster at the time of this interview with Amnesty International, said: “When we arrived at François Compaoré’s house we had our hands in the air; the military threatened us and at one point they started shooting at us, people fell in front of me. I was hit in the stomach and arm. I fell on the road. My friends ran off but came back for me after. They broke down a wooden bench and carried me on the wooden planks. I would like to ask the soldiers, just what were they thinking when they shot at people like this?” [...] In the context of the protests that took place in Burkina Faso between 30 October and 2 November 2014, security forces violated the right to life, the right to freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, the right to peaceful assembly, and the right to freedom of expression, among other human rights. The testimonies and evidence gathered by Amnesty International indicate that security forces arbitrarily used lethal force on peaceful protestors, resulting in at least ten deaths and hundreds of injuries." ^[+]