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. [...] The majority of the protestors, human rights defenders and independent journalists interviewed by Amnesty International mentioned that on no occasion did the security forces give warning that they would fire. One witness said: "When they started firing real bullets, we tried to change direction and the soldiers shot at us again. When we got up to the two hotels near the Presidential residence, the military continued to fire, they wouldn’t stop! One of the protestors I met while walking was shot and fell into my arms. He wasn’t breathing, he was fatally injured. I ran away and took refuge in a gutter. The soldiers continued to fire at the demonstrators. The demonstrator was taken to the Blaise Compaoré Hospital.” [...] 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." ^[+]