Sentences with phrase «against a civilian population»

These groups regularly commit horrific abuses against the civilian population, including mass murder, rape, torture and forced recruitment.

• two counts of war crimes: intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - Article 8 (2)(e)(i); and pillaging — Article 8 (2)(e)(v).

The botulinum toxin has also been identified as a potential biological weapon against a civilian population.

Ukraine's position is that Russia violates ICSFT by continuing to support pro-Russian separatist armed groups in eastern Ukraine that engage in the commission of terrorist acts against the civilian population.

Jesse, the Palestinians fire Grad and Kassam rockets and mortar shells into Israel against civilian populations on almost a daily basis.

We have shone a light on U.S. government support for anti-democratic governments and state - sponsored terror against civilian populations.

Simone Gbagbo faces allegations of crimes against prisoners of war, crimes against the civilian population and crimes against humanity.

This makes it a very difficult call for a government, especially if there is visual or online evidence of atrocities against a civilian population.

At least 50,000 civilians have been killed or wounded during the conflict, with the belligerent parties committing a litany of war crimes and violations of humanitarian law against the civilian population.

The fossil fuel industry is a proven funder of anti-science propaganda and in Shell's case of violence against civilian populations.

Use of banned weapons against civilian populations should be investigated by the United Nations.

Instead, we are presented with a moral and legal equivalency between actions that are unambiguously war crimes (namely random attacks against civilian populations) and actions which may, or may not, be war crimes (civilian casulaties in the conduct 0f an armed conflict in a densely populated area), depending on an subtle assessment of facts and circumstances.

«The essence of crimes against humanity is a systematic policy or action of a certain scale and gravity directed against a civilian population.

The expression «attack directed against any civilian population» is defined as meaning «a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.»

Article 5 of the Statute lists rape as one of the crimes against humanity, when committed in armed conflict, whether international or internal in character, and when directed against any civilian population.