Sentences with phrase «as civilian crimes»
The tiny photographs draw the viewer close in order to deliver their shocks, with images of 20th century conflicts as well as civilian crimes and disasters.
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Generally speaking, in a genuine military conflict between nations, it is not considered a war crime to target a military installation that is used by «combatants» in a conflict (as opposed to civilians or hospitals for the wounded, for example).
Correction officers and civilian staff members continue to be arrested at alarming rates on suspicion of smuggling weapons and drugs onto the cellblocks or brutalizing inmates, as well as a host of crimes committed off duty.
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.
As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».
During this time, Mike held a concurrent appointment as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, in which capacity he prosecuted civilian and Department of Defense employees who stood accused of committing crimes on federal installations.
Take, for instance, a specialised profession within a small industry, such as a civilian forensic / crime scene technician employed by the police.
In some jurisdictions (like US federal civilian courts), the appropriate sentence is calculated as a single thing to cover all the crimes, not independently for each crime.
Indeed, aggressive police raids — where doors are kicked in, machine guns are held to civilians» heads, and houses are completely ransacked — create a backlash against the police and against the legal system in general, especially when these tactics are used against «crimes» as mundane as poker games, checking high school students» lockers for drugs, and even cracking down on unlicensed hairdressers.
There is a long list of crimes against humanity, embracing all the most serious crimes of violence, but the ICC only has jurisdiction when such crimes are committed «as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of that attack.»
He has committed many of his most egregious war crimes strategically — sometimes to eliminate civilians who would rather die than live under his rule, sometimes to neuter an international order that occasionally threatens to limit his power, and sometimes, as with his use of chemical weapons, to accomplish both goals at once.
In addition, data - mining or harvesting can also be used in the planning or preparation of international crimes, especially those targeting predominantly civilian populations, such as crimes against humanity and genocide.