Sentences with phrase «committed against civilians»

The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in general, and against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of violence to justice.»

Last month, the U.N. released a report outlining a pattern of truly horrific atrocities committed against civilians in South Sudan.

Not exact matches

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

During the conflict, the Assad regime has been accused of committing atrocities against civilians.

For Muslims, that talking point is code for whitewashing decades of atrocities committed against the people of Gaza: the kids killed on the Gaza Beach, the civilians bombed in the most densely populated cage in the world, and the attacking of civilians who resort to donkey carts for transportation.

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.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Many crimes were committed by civilians against civilians, or civilians quickly recruited to become various types of victimizers, prison guards, executioners, administrators of drugs and poisons, etc..

According to a 55 - page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

The expression «attack directed against any civilian population» is defined as meaning «a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.»

At least 50,000 civilians have been killed or wounded during the conflict, with the belligerent parties committing a litany of war crimes and violations of humanitarian law against the civilian population.

Article 5 of the Statute lists rape as one of the crimes against humanity, when committed in armed conflict, whether international or internal in character, and when directed against any civilian population.

Atrocities committed by soldiers against civilians are always, in essence, state acts.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

Terrorism in the modern sense is violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians for political or other ideological goals.

Innocent civilian, wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit, who straight up becomes a criminal to fight against «the man»?

These groups regularly commit horrific abuses against the civilian population, including mass murder, rape, torture and forced recruitment.

There is a long list of crimes against humanity, embracing all the most serious crimes of violence, but the ICC only has jurisdiction when such crimes are committed «as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of that attack.»

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government of international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government or international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.