Sentences with phrase «collateral civilian deaths»

The use of armed drones in conflict situations is increasing, causing far too many collateral civilian deaths.

Not exact matches

The collateral damage, a.k.a., civilian death ratio since the mid 20th century was 10:1 according to the International Red Cross.

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.

Seal turns every CIA directive or order into another money - making opportunity, trading guns meant for the Contras to the Columbians in exchange for cash, deliberately ignoring the consequences of his actions, both in the United States (the explosion of life - ruining drug abuse tied to the cartels) and in South and Latin America (the tens of thousands of civilian deaths euphemized away as «collateral damage» in the drug wars).

The innumerable civilian deaths and collateral damage that always follow the Avengers» spectacular city - pulverising showdowns have become impossible to ignore — and now the Avengers are faced with having to submit to UN political oversight and control.

These strikes — as «surgical» as they may be — frequently cause collateral deaths to unintended Palestinian targets (this is particularly true in light of a deliberate policy by Hamas and other terrorists to embed their fighters and rockets into civilian institutions such as schools, mosques and hospitals).

A defendant would claim that the death of civilians was unintended «collateral damage».