Sentences with phrase «civilian death tolls»

The killings have correctly been defined as genocidal in nature and, extraordinarily, exceeded the civilian death tolls of the recent conflict in Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square and 9/11 combined.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

With the near inevitability of a civilian death toll any time the Avengers are involved in an incident, the U.N. steps in with an accord proposing regulation and oversight of the super-powered people.

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After all, they had ordered and presided over the direct and indirect killing of tens or hundreds of thousands - in attacks on civilian and half - civlian targets, in «collateral damage», through the debilitating sanctions in 1990s that resulted in a huge death toll, indirectly through stoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and so on.

A tragic military error with a hideous civilian death - toll, a disastrously corrupt election, and the resignation of a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the MoD, the auguries for Gordon Brown's speech on Friday could barely have been worse.