Sentences with phrase «against civilians in»

It accuses the individual of failing to prevent violence by Congolese police and military against civilians in the village of Bongulu, of northern DRC on 2 May 2011.

As a peace keeping Mission, what is your policy on sexual violence and abuse against civilians in Mogadishu / Somalia?

What are the commanding officers of AMISOM doing to prevent, identify and punish perpetrators of sexual violence against civilians in Mogadishu?

Working with Amnesty International and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, AAAS documented past attacks by the government - backed Janjaweed against civilians in Chad and Darfur, Sudan, in 2005 and 2006, and is building methods for tracking current attacks.

A relatively authoritarian regime in Turkey which has acted brutally against civilians in its own territory with significant military presence in Eastern Turkey.

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

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

The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in general, and against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of violence to justice.»

U.S. low - intensity - conflict strategy in El Salvador utilized generalized terror against civilians in order to sow fear and shape the collective memory of the people.

Generalized terror against civilians in Nicaragua, as in El Salvador, was part of a campaign to create a climate of fear and terror.

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

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

Not exact matches

Hof cautioned against this approach, arguing that «with civilians on Assad's bull's - eye, there can be no sustainable peace talks or political compromise in Geneva or anywhere.»

While crashing a vehicle into civilians recalls recent terrorist attacks, including one on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 that killed 12 people, German police and federal officials warned against jumping to conclusions about the incident on Saturday.

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.

The Pentagon holds a briefing Friday about the joint military action against Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on civilians in the town of Douma.

«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.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Steve Ward, who spent seven years as an officer with the Seattle Police Department and six with the city's SWAT team, says he founded Seattle - based VieVu in 2007 to protect officers against unfounded civilian complaints.

After four years using VieVu's body cams, the OPD reports a significant reduction in use of force against civilians.

The law also requires a civilian review when commanders decline to prosecute, requires dishonourable discharge or dismissal for those convicted, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts - martial in rape and sexual assault cases and criminalizes retaliation against victims who report an assault.

But it's unclear how rebels or terrorists, who live among Syrian civilians in east Ghouta, could retain sufficient territory to stage mortar or artillery attacks against medical evacuations or aid convoys under such heavy bombardment.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

On Monday, Haley had told the Security Council that the US will respond to the Assad regime's alleged chemical attack against Syrian civilians as she excoriated Russia, saying its hands are «covered in the blood of Syrian children.»

(Can't expect decent people to fight next to coloreds, can't trust colored men in a battle, don't use the army for liberal politics, the soldiers are against it, the civilians don't know what they're doing, there's a war on and this isn't the right time, etc.) It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

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.

For Muslims, that talking point is code for whitewashing decades of atrocities committed against the people of Gaza: the kids killed on the Gaza Beach, the civilians bombed in the most densely populated cage in the world, and the attacking of civilians who resort to donkey carts for transportation.

The attack was Pakistan's deadliest overall «since the December 2014 massacre at an army - run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,» reports the Los Angeles Times.

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

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

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.

Mr. Golan forthrightly faces the moral questions involved, and concludes, rightly, in my opinion, that with but one possible exception Lehi's operations against the British did not target innocent civilians.

We must weigh the devastation of Iraq (even if there were no civilian deaths) and the promise of decades of future trouble in the region against the evil of failing to reverse promptly the August 2 annexation.

Here they murdered in cold blood shooting many of innocent victims multiple times in the face, civilians armed with chairs against automatic weapons.

Was the bombing of Dresden in World War II, for example, just collateral damage, or an intentional strike against civilians?

ABDUCTIONS / FORCED BRAIN CHIP IMPLANTS / BLACKLISTING / FORCEFUL UNEMPLOYMENT / MK - ULTRA BRAINWASHING AGAINST WHITE (under «NAZI» lie) CIVILIAN POPULATION TODAY IN 2011/2012 ACROSS THE EUROPE AND NORTHERN AMERICA!!!

Taliban spokesmen have said that the brutal attacks — which target innocent civilians — are revenge for military offensive campaigns against militants in the country...

JimmyTImmy: Islam has been killing «civilians» since Mohammed led his forces in genocidal war against the Banu Qurayza tribe.

It is this crisis that leads to the declaration's central judgment: that fighting against Americans and their allies — civilians and soldiers — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do so in any country where that is possible.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Nevertheless, especially in public, how many civilians are capable of surviving a shoot - out against a moreorless trained person, or against e.g. gangs - shootout?

• Why would the United States publicly condemn terrorism while at the same time create, fund and direct the contras in Nicaragua, whose principal tactic was terrorism against civilians?

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.

Each innocent person that is killed must be added to, not set off against, the grisly toll of civilians who died in New York and Washington».

While parts of the world have experienced random violence against civilians for years, it seems agenda - driven mass violence — terrorism — has touched the U.S. in this generation more than ever in our history.

Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troopIn March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troopin military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.

Destructive warfare within LIC, including massive terror against civilians, is part of U.S. pre-electoral strategy in Third World countries.