Sentences with phrase «by armed civilians»

Not exact matches

And the aggressor was more than four times more likely to be stopped by an unarmed civilian than an armed one.

One of the most miserable of them, Liberia, goes back to the 1840s (Haiti to the 1790s): its cry for help was voiced by a desperate Liberian, when three rival bands of heavily armed savages were engaged in slaughtering (and in some cases eating) civilians as well as each other.

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.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

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

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The MoD plans to cut its civilian workforce by 29,000 and its armed forces by 25,000.

If effect, there is no longer a civilian government of any kind: the military are competing amongst themselves for the right to rule Mali, and that right will be won by force of arms.

A legislative body could expand the concept of arms in «common use» by permitting (or at least not prohibiting) civilian ownership, and if it reached a point where the courts found it to be «common,» then it would fall under Second Amendment protection.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

When they were confronted by civilian they easily surrendered and laid down their arms.

«In the so - called inaccessible territories in Borno State, tens of thousands of IDPs were held in camps under armed guard by the Nigerian military and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a state - sponsored civilian militia formed to fight BokCivilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a state - sponsored civilian militia formed to fight Bokcivilian militia formed to fight Boko Haram.

** KILL 3 ARMED BANDITS IN KADUNA STATE The Nigerian Military in a joint operation involving the Army, the Air force and Civilian JTF at the weekend, overcame an ambush attack launched by Boko Haram terrorists against troops at their camp in Chukungudu, Sambisa Forest -LSB-...]

General Irabor said, «Following a tip off, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE and some Civilian JTF today (Sunday) went on a clearance patrol to Borgozo - Alargano general area in which they discovered large cache of arms and ammunitions concealed by Boko Haram terrorists.

This more complex picture shows that during and after the height of a conflict, sexual andother types of violence are not solely perpetrated by armed combatants, but also by husbands and other civilian men.

Officer Mike Chandler (Nicolas Cage) and a young civilian passenger find themselves under - prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly trained and heavily armed men.

How can we respond to armed engagement between civilians in our public squares and to the gravely un-American statements by our president?

Beset by raiders, famine and disease, Dion only survives by the swift intervention of Nikandreos and his willingness to arm himself with weapons / farm implements and butcher every person who isn't a mewling civilian.

The work, titled Civilian Drone Strike, was auctioned alongside contributions by feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls and photomontage artist Peter Kennard, at the five - day Art The Arms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms fArms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms farms fair.

There is a direct causal link between the metals trade in eastern DRC and atrocities perpetrated by armed groups against Congolese civilians.

Iraqi Civilian Litigation: private international law claims by Iraqi civilians arising out of allegations of ill treatment by UK armed forces.

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.

Serious harm is subsequently defined as «serious and individual threat to a civilian's life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict» (Article 15 (c)-RRB-.

The problem is the PCA prohibits the direction participation of armed forces in civilian law enforcement activity unless otherwise authorized by law.

The UN Secretary - General made his first remarks on the fully autonomous weapons in his November 2013 report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, calling for international discussions to begin immediately and «not once the technology has been developed and proliferated» and urging that any process «be inclusive and allow for full engagement by United Nations actors, ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and civil society.»