Sentences with phrase «by death squads»

B - M's work for the Argentinian government occurred at the time that 35,000 people were disappeared by death squads.

As teenage revolutionaries, Paulina was captured by a death squad and forced to endure months of electroshock torture and rape, but refused to rat out her then - boyfriend Gerardo.

Not exact matches

Saying that its safer than equity volatility is like saying death by a thousand cuts is safer than a firing squad.

In an Instagram Story from November 9, The Skimm quizzed followers on the Philippines» president's ties to «death squads» by having them guess if President Duterte's nickname is «The Prosecutor» or «Duterte Harry,» among other questions, Jezebel reported.

Plenty of examples of that happening in Central and South America - priests and nuns murdered by fascist death squads.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

Today, in fact, the charismatic D'Aubuisson — a man widely linked to the death squads, a man described by former U.S. Ambassador Robert White as «a pathological killer» — is probably the most powerful individual in El Salvador.

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.

Mr Romero was gunned down by right - wing death squads on March 24 1980, as he celebrated mass in a hospital chapel.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

According to the article, «two U.S. military officers assigned to advise the El Salvadoran military... were «part and parcel» of death - squad operations carried out by an elite intelligence branch of the Salvadoran army.»

Marshall Petain was sentenced to death by firing squad, but de Gaulle commuted that to life imprisonment.

By the time their vital organs were transported to a laboratory, diagnosis was difficult, but the best guess was 1080 — the favorite chemical of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's death squads.

Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.

She is sentenced to death by firing squad, but at the last moment a guard, bribed by the Polish Home Army resistance movement, frees her.

In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in October 1945).

by Bill Chambers Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is devastating because it doesn't offer any moral opposition to the glibly boastful first - hand accounts of Indonesian death squads; and his The Look of Silence is devastating because it does.

With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold - blooded killers: mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human Predators that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) has a quirky enough personal life (she faces married life and the death of Kitty this season, not to mention a problem niece — played by Sedgwick's real - life daughter, Sosie Bacon — who overstays her welcome) but what makes the show so good is her loyalty and leadership and the chemistry of her team, a squad we have watched mature into a crack unit of detectives each working at the top of their game.

No one will hire him because he's either too drunk, too dishonest or too leftist to be relied on to take pictures of the various atrocities committed by right - wing death squads, left - wing guerillas or the American military - intelligence «advisors».

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).

With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold - blooded killers — mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members — human «predators» that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien predators.

By the time death squads are cruising the streets and babies are being raffled for charity, Samson's dry, plain language has tricked us into accepting her reality, painting a picture of the modern American hellscape where we're only too eager to put our birthright on the auction block to make a quick buck.

(a) In order to protect the health and safety of an animal, any animal control officer, animal cruelty investigator appointed under G.S. 19A - 45, law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad worker, who has probable cause to believe that an animal is confined in amotor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animal.

In his native El Salvador, Jorge Nunez fought for years — often at the risk of being beaten or killed by government «death squads» — for justice for low - income people.

higher quality and NOT made by Diamond (the Death squad, as I call them)

The urgency in the perma - death is lessened by each unique squad member not actually feeling that unique, so I never felt the same sense of loss that I felt when I lost a member of my team in Enemy Unknown.

These paintings were created concurrently with the United States intervention into El Salvador and were strongly influenced by contemporary headlines of the death squads and attendant institutionalized torture.

Then whenever the regime wants to buy more guns and ammunitions they allow their friends in the so called humanitarian NGOs to take few pictures of dying Oromo and Ogaden orphans whose fathers or mothers were either killed or imprisoned by the Ethiopian Army Death squads.

A government that was installed by a CIA - sponsored revolution, similar to all the right - wing «death - squad» based «governments» in South America in the» 80's.

Indeed, the stunning success rates enjoyed by IPR petitioners prompted former Federal Circuit chief judge Randall Rader to describe the PTAB, the administrative body in charge of inter partes reviews, as «death squads killing property rights.»