Sentences with phrase «against civilians»

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

He went on to talk about the role and types of ideology that encourage violence against civilians during conflict.

I mean, the kid has a point — yet another vehicle was used as a weapon against civilians.

Still, there is a difference between stealing in to rupture pipelines, and launching missiles against civilian targets elsewhere.

And more oversight of a department that clears officers of wrongdoing almost every time they are accused of using excessive force against civilians.

This project examines the role of ideology in mass violence against civilians, and attempts to understand the ways in which ideology drives violence.

• 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).

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by a United Nations tribunal on Thursday for leading a campaign of terror against civilians in the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.

Insufficient attention to where British arms exports have ended up has been blamed by MPs for their use against civilians in conflict zones.

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

In fact, there has been rather exceptional progress in international efforts to prevent atrocities against civilians in recent years.

In fact, UN bodies quickly became seized of the crisis and condemned the attacks against civilians by Gaddafi's forces.

This makes Hamas responsible for accidental strikes against civilians in Gaza.

Of course, you notably worded it as «won't let us catch them», when what is really meant by calling the terrorists cowards is how they hide amongst civilians, perform heinous acts of terrorism against civilians and then run off and hide in tunnels, houses, caves, etc, forever afraid to show their faces.

Last month, the U.N. released a report outlining a pattern of truly horrific atrocities committed against civilians in South Sudan.

Santos emphasized that the cease - fire and end of hostilities against civilians that took effect Aug. 29 will hold.

The deal includes a six - month extension of a lucrative tax credit for New York City developers, an expansion of the charter - school cap in the city and a special prosecutor appointed by the State Attorney General's Office for one year to investigate any crimes against civilians by police.

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.

The CIA manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, which encouraged the contras to assassinate «government officials and sympathizers,» may have been produced in order to encourage the contras to shift from the phase of warfare conducted through generalized terror into a new phase of targeted terror against civilians who were committed to the revolutionary process.

• Finally, according to former contra leader Edgar Chamorro, CIA trainers not only provided the contras with an instruction manual on how to utilize terrorist tactics against civilians, they also gave contra troops large knives.

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

But this time, with the US considering its response to another attack against civilians blamed on the Syrian government, Russian officials threatened to shoot down US missiles, and potentially the ships that launched them, if they attacked Syria.

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

Still, support for this kind of violence against civilians among Muslims in Lebanon is one of the highest among the publics surveyed.

The United States then directed the Salvadoran military to carry Out massive bombing campaigns against civilians in rural areas in an effort to displace them from their homelands, a policy similar to that employed in Vietnam.

Have you spoken out against the civilian deaths caused by the US military?

Finally, with respect to legitimate targets, the declaration says that Muslims should fight against civilians as well as soldiers.

Terrorism is a tactic used by armed men against civilians for political purpose in the anticipation that it will weaken the public's resolve to resist.

Yet several scholarly works state that the British used air attacks against civilian demonstrators.

To answer another aspect of your question, the usage of booby - traps against civilians is prohibited in «non-international» conflicts:

@Baldrickk The idea that chemical weapons are used for targeting civilians while conventional explosives are safe against civilians is outright foolish.

However, weapons which cause equal suffering, such as napalm, are not prohibited (use of napalm against civilians is banned by a UN convention, but not against soldiers).

Could you point to some sources about US police forces using expanding bullets against civilians?

A big part of the problem with chemical weapons is that nobody wants to admit that something relatively effective against a civilian target can be comparatively so very simple, these are generally terror weapons.

High effectiveness against civilians.

So you have a weapon that is mostly worthless for military use (although it does provide your adversary with a great excuse to escalate things once you gas him), great against civilians and produces a horrifyingly painful death and lots of sympathetic, gut - wrenching footage of dying women and children.

«We condemn in the strongest term the atrocity by the Israeli occupying forces using this massive firepower against civilians who have the right to demonstrate peacefully, and they have been demonstrating peacefully,» Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters outside the U.N. Security Council chambers in New York.

According to a 55 - page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

It was not a mistake for Obama to mention those red lines, because the use of chemical weapons against civilians does send the conflict towards an entirely new level of suffering and death.

Especially for Trump Vs. Syria, you're hitting two birds with one stone: (a) you appease generally - anti-Shia-axis right wing hawks - especially as this also plays against Iran; (b) you appease anyone who doesn't like chemical weapons used against civilians across the spectrum on humanitarian angle.

UPDATE - INDICTMENTS COMING: Iviewit Breaking News: NY Supreme Court Ethics Oversight Bosses Alleged MISUSE of Joint Terrorism Task Force Resources & Funds & Violations of Patriot Acts Against Civilian Targets for Personal Gain... US Senator John Sampson Threatened & Bribed to Cover Up NY & Federal Corruption!!