Sentences with phrase «death squads in»

Or, do you think the death squads in Honduras, the CIA coup against Allende leading to the Pinochet regime in Chile, the military dictatorship in Argentina, the CIA orchestrated Contra attacks against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua after they overthrew the Samoza dictatorship, etc, are examples of proper governance?

The question is who needs this aid money the Ethiopian elite and their Death squads in Mogadishu and Ogaden or the needy people of Oromia and Ogadenia.

Let us remember the victims of death squads in El Salvador and Haiti, the victims of massacres in Guatemala, the victims of paramilitary and guerrilla violence in Colombia, the victims of rightwing and military violence in Chiapas, the victims of the military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.

Maybe he should elaborate on his role supporting the Right Wing Fascist Death Squads in Argentina.

Not exact matches

After a 10 - year moratorium, the death penalty became a part of the US criminal justice system again in 1977 when a firing squad killed the murderer Gary Gilmore.

In an Instagram Story from November 9, The Skimm quizzed followers on the Philippines» president's ties to «death squads» by having them guess if President Duterte's nickname is «The Prosecutor» or «Duterte Harry,» among other questions, Jezebel reported.

The U.S. government cites reduced numbers of death - squad victims as «proof» of its commitment to human rights in El Salvador and the success of that commitment.

Plenty of examples of that happening in Central and South America - priests and nuns murdered by fascist death squads.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

Today, in fact, the charismatic D'Aubuisson — a man widely linked to the death squads, a man described by former U.S. Ambassador Robert White as «a pathological killer» — is probably the most powerful individual in El Salvador.

Shadow governments subverting the U.S. Constitution, Salvadoran death squads operating in the United States, and presidential directives authorizing detention centers are indications that hard times may be on the horizon.34

They needed the Christian Democrats in order to carry out this project, although they will also work with ARENA [a right - wing party with close ties to the death squads].

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Information on Salvadoran death squads operating in the United States can be found in NACLA Report, vol.

Mr Romero was gunned down by right - wing death squads on March 24 1980, as he celebrated mass in a hospital chapel.

In a country where, despite U.S. rhetoric to the contrary, the death squads had never been dismantled, such actions were meant to intimidate and to sow terror.

Sign or no sign, the feared Cherokee jeeps that are identified with death squads and disappearances patrolled the streets in front of the offices.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

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For the boys in green, who will make up the oldest squad in the tournament, escaping the «group of death» to reach the knockout stages would be a real achievement.

A lawsuit has been brought against Coca - cola in Columbia for their open relationships with anti-labour death squads, and Nestle itself has been accused of using violent intimidation to control its workforce in the same country.

Whilst what we have in the UK is patently not a «distributed totalitarianism» such as happened with the South American death squads of 80s, the trends are extremely worrying.

Rwanda also appears to be trying to use death squads to carry out assassinations in London itself.

Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts.

He invoked the deaths of two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, whose murders as they sat in their squad car in Brooklyn ignited already smoldering tensions across the city and among lawmakers, the mayor and the police force.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

The course established a team of forensic anthropologists in Guatemala who worked to identify victims of death squads.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.

The Act of Killing (Unrated) Macabre musical documentary in which Indonesian death squad leaders reenact real - life mass executions in a manner mimicking the classic Hollywood films they so admire.

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about former leaders of Indonesian death squads isn't brilliant just because it sheds light on an oft - ignored chapter in history.

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Every time Forest Whitaker's hopeful, God - fearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a sit - down with Eric Bana's incarcerated, racist, death - squad assassin Piet Blomfeld, in lengthy, two - man scenes where they each pull out every emotion they can wring out, it's hard to shake the feeling this was done on a theater stage somewhere.

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).

East is a 15 - year - old gang member who works for his drug - dealer uncle, but when his slipup results in the death of a young girl, East is sent on a road trip as part of a four - man hit squad.

Lt. Eve Dallas and her squad take on corrupt cops in Robb's 33rd full - length novel featuring the New York Police and Security Dept. homicide detective (after Indulgence in Death), a fast - paced, intricate, and deadly dance of well - matched opponents.

(a) In order to protect the health and safety of an animal, any animal control officer, animal cruelty investigator appointed under G.S. 19A - 45, law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad worker, who has probable cause to believe that an animal is confined in amotor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animaIn order to protect the health and safety of an animal, any animal control officer, animal cruelty investigator appointed under G.S. 19A - 45, law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad worker, who has probable cause to believe that an animal is confined in amotor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animain amotor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animal.

In his native El Salvador, Jorge Nunez fought for years — often at the risk of being beaten or killed by government «death squads» — for justice for low - income people.

But even if all we can do is speculate about the why and the how, we must continue to fiercely condemn the tragic and cruel outcome, regardless of its cause, in the hopes of bringing their terrifying death squads to an end.

«The team has been working hard to leverage core XCOM elements like tactical decision - making and permanent death of squad mates in a purposeful way that makes this a unique tactical shooter.

Losing one's best sniper in XCOM (where character death is permanent but squads are six characters large) doesn't mean the game is over.

The urgency in the perma - death is lessened by each unique squad member not actually feeling that unique, so I never felt the same sense of loss that I felt when I lost a member of my team in Enemy Unknown.

The military chimera are still a strong presence in 1957, with roving death squads and drones continuing to exterminate any signs of humanity while protecting key Chimeran installations.

The Bureau does feature perma - death for your squad, so decisions that you make on the battlefield can result in losing a strong agent with good abilities.

The sequence in question sees Iden and Del (one of the other members of the squad) navigating their way through the remains of the Death Star, and it is genuinely one of the coolest moments in a Star Wars game that there has ever been.

Carrying three fallen comrades as biochips in his equipment, Rogue is a one - unit squad of death and destruction, and he only has one thing on his mind — REVENGE.

There are a number of modes of play, but in this TAC guide we won't cover the squad and team death match modes.

The mode is simple: You'll enlist in one of 10 five - man squads and respawn in a plane after every death.

Assaulting ADVENT facilities will hinder progress, but many situations will crop up and get in your way, including perma - death of your squad - mates.

You play as Ben Saxon, a former mercenary trying to get revenge on the Illuminati and other factions in the world of Deus Ex for the death of his former squad.