This is just as intolerable as the rockets missiles directed indiscriminately toward
civilian targets in Israel... Demonizing others, however, does not eliminate their rights.»
I know what it was like for my uncle to be involved in bombing raids to
civilian targets in WWII.
Not exact matches
Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces
targeted suspected chemical weapons sites
in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of
civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.
On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to join France and Britain
in launching
targeted strikes
in Syria,
in retaliation for an attack on
civilians that employed chemical weapons.
«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against
civilian areas,
targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching
civilians in need,» the statement said.
That is, «by razing anything that still stands and by mercilessly
targeting fighters,
civilians, humanitarian workers, hospitals, and ambulances alike — as it does on a daily basis
in Aleppo now.»
«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military
targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent
civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.
Russian warships heading for Syria could be used to
target civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo, NATO Secretary - General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Tuesday, calling on Moscow to implement a lasting ceasefire.
The death occurred during a bloody day
in Afghanistan
in which 31 people, including 10 journalists, were killed
in twin bombings
targeting civilians in Kabul, and a suicide bombing
targeted a military convoy
in Kandahar province, wounding eight Romanian service members and killing numerous children who were nearby, coalition military officials said.
The bombings
targeted civilians:
In addition to striking a crowded bus station, another of the blast went off in the emergency room of a hospita
In addition to striking a crowded bus station, another of the blast went off
in the emergency room of a hospita
in the emergency room of a hospital.
You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for
targeting innocent
civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups
in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.
This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and
targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.
«Contra Forces
Target Civilian Medical Work
in Northern Nicaragua,» Executive Summary Report, U.S. Medical Task Force Investigation, January 1988.
The CIA manual Psychological Operations
in Guerrilla Warfare, which encouraged the contras to assassinate «government officials and sympathizers,» may have been produced
in order to encourage the contras to shift from the phase of warfare conducted through generalized terror into a new phase of
targeted terror against
civilians who were committed to the revolutionary process.
Mr. Golan forthrightly faces the moral questions involved, and concludes, rightly,
in my opinion, that with but one possible exception Lehi's operations against the British did not
target innocent
civilians.
The bombing campaign has
targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other
civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people
in recent days.
On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by
targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as
in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage,
civilian deaths, and widespread fear.
Any way seems that we Muslims are seeing our religion is being Nailed one after another with acts that we disapprove of under any name such as
targeting civilians or those
in duty of the law and order..!
Taliban spokesmen have said that the brutal attacks — which
target innocent
civilians — are revenge for military offensive campaigns against militants
in the country...
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Civilians in war: I think it is immoral to intentionally
target non-combatants
in war.
To return to the recent war
in Lebanon: once a Muslim appreciates that a Christian partner
in dialogue really cares about Muslim
civilians who suffered
in the attacks on their homes and on the infrastructure of
civilian life, that Muslim can also appreciate the Christian's concern about Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets to
target Israeli and Palestinian
civilians in Haifa and Nazareth and other places
in Galilee;
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.
Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did
in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing
civilian targets.
As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony
in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to
target and kill
civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»
Go ask the Gazans why they would allow Hamas to build tunnels under
civilian apartment blocks, hide weapons
in homes and mosques, and place powerful IEDs
in civilian areas to
target Israel's army.
When trying to show why terrorism is the greater evil, Ignatieff lists his limiting conditions
in mirror - image form: terror makes violence a first resort, «
target [s] unarmed
civilians and punish [es] them for their allegiance or ethnicity,» and seeks the death of politics itself.
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).
Furthermore, the statistics of modern warfare show a far worse ratioof
civilian to combatant deaths,
in spite of all the advances
in battlefield technology and bluster about «
targeted drone strikes».
However, militaries have made and used much lower - grade nerve agents, such as the very poor quality Sarin that Saddam Hussein made and used against both
civilian and military
targets in the Iran - Iraq war.
To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced
in late January the launch of an investigation into the «
civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other
targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.
In other words, that paragraph authorises the use of force to prevent attacks on towns and cities, whether those attacks are directed at
civilians or even at what would be legitimate military
targets.
«This intensified pattern of assassinations and executions reinforced the widespread perception of Afghan
civilians that they are becoming more and more the primary
target in this period of conflict,» Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special representative of the secretary - general, said.
In principle, war is meant to be conducted between militaries fighting in a battle and, civilians are not directly targete
In principle, war is meant to be conducted between militaries fighting
in a battle and, civilians are not directly targete
in a battle and,
civilians are not directly
targeted.
Countervalue are
targets that are more
civilian in nature, i.e. large cities and urban centers, whether or not there is military industry there.
«The authorisation of «all necessary measures» is broad and appears to allow the
targeting of Gaddafi and others who act to put
civilians «under threat of attack», words that go beyond the need to establish a connection with actual attacks,» he wrote
in the Guardian last Friday.
In my view, para. 4 of Res 1973 does not prohibit the
targeting of Gaddafi and authorises it where this is deemed necessary to protect
civilians and
civilian populated areas.
There is broad consensus that
civilian casualties must be minimised
in warfare and they can not be legitimate military
targets (See Geneva Convention (I), § 50; Rome Statute, § 8 (2)(b), Walzer, 152 - 9).
In December he wrote to Theresa May condemning «all attacks on civilian targets, including those by Russian and pro-Syrian government forces in Aleppo» — but only after he had been heckled on Syria by Peter Tatchel
In December he wrote to Theresa May condemning «all attacks on
civilian targets, including those by Russian and pro-Syrian government forces
in Aleppo» — but only after he had been heckled on Syria by Peter Tatchel
in Aleppo» — but only after he had been heckled on Syria by Peter Tatchell.
«The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and
civilian targets that resulted
in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,» the report said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned, «the cowardly attack
in the holy month of Ramadan
targeting innocent
civilians in their daily life.»
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.
In these circumstances constraints against
targeting civilians or minimising
civilian causalities when attacking military
targets are relaxed.
Therefore, the partisan groups
in Afghanistan who
target and kill
civilians (and only those groups) are commongly called terrorists.
It is
in line with UN resolution 1973 and it is about preventing a loss of
civilian life by
targeting Gaddafi's war - making machine.
Because North Korea can inflict severe damage on Seoul and several other cities
in South Korea (
targeting literally millions of
civilians) with its conventional artillery.
«Today's incident was a horrible attack carried out by Al - Shabab against innocent
civilians that was not aimed at specific Somali government
targets,» he said
in a televised address to the nation.
In March 2016, Abbott wrote: «over the past year alone, Britain has sold around # 6bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, whose campaign in Yemen is targeting civilians — 191 such attacks have collectively been reported by the UN, HRW and Amnesty.&raqu
In March 2016, Abbott wrote: «over the past year alone, Britain has sold around # 6bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, whose campaign
in Yemen is targeting civilians — 191 such attacks have collectively been reported by the UN, HRW and Amnesty.&raqu
in Yemen is
targeting civilians — 191 such attacks have collectively been reported by the UN, HRW and Amnesty.»
The Executive Secretary of Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), Air Commodore Anas recently disclosed that there is nothing wrong
in imposing
targets on the military but due to the asymmetric warfare which Boko Haram is prosecuting against
civilian «soft
targets» the December deadline is unrealistic.
The attack is the latest against a mosque
in northeast Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region, as part of a campaign of violence by the Islamist group against
civilian «soft»
targets.
The mayor will appoint an independent
civilian to monitor the New York Police Department's counterterrorism activities, lawyers said
in court documents on Thursday as they moved to settle a pair of lawsuits over surveillance
targeting Muslims
in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.