Sentences with phrase «bombed civilian populations»

They too used gas in WWI, bombed civilian populations in WWII.

Having (or performing) an abortion, for example, or terror bombing a civilian population, can not be justified by the good consequences to be achieved, or bad consequences to be avoided, by carrying out these choices.

It's terrifying, in other words, even when you can't process what's going on, because of the perspective afforded by its aerial shots of Yanks fire - bombing a civilian population — an acceptable war crime in Dresden and Tokyo, lest we forget — followed hot by chemical warfare in a sequence of flight from slowly - encroaching death that pays a sort of literal homage to Romero's shambling legions.

Not exact matches

But the rockets keep fear in the Israeli population, and out of this misguided fear, Israelis allow their government to use real weapons — bombs and white phosphorus — on the unarmed Palestinian civilian population.

We should encourage the UN to begin outlawing weapons like land mines, cluster bombs, and depleted - uranium ammunition that play particularly long - term havoc with civilian populations.

When Muslims today think of violence, they remember the atrocities of Bosnia, the bombing of Baghdad and the recent assault upon the civilian population and infrastructure of Lebanon.

In contrast to the Franck report, the decision to drop the bomb on civilian populations was governed mainly by immediate military considerations.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

Thousands of Burmese army soldiers have been sent to attack ethnic minority civilian populations, mortar - bombing villages, just as mine was mortar bombed so many years ago.

A late - night conversation as Jiro waits for a date with his bride - to - be ends with a mysterious stranger telling him that Japan will burn along with technological ally Germany — and we know that it does burn, not just in the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in the devastation of Allied incendiary bombs dropped on a civilian population that had, for centuries, built their homes from paper and wood.