Sentences with phrase «death squads on»

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

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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.

Maybe he should elaborate on his role supporting the Right Wing Fascist Death Squads in Argentina.

Shadow governments subverting the U.S. Constitution, Salvadoran death squads operating in the United States, and presidential directives authorizing detention centers are indications that hard times may be on the horizon.34

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.

Information on Salvadoran death squads operating in the United States can be found in NACLA Report, vol.

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.

Bentley, who was the last - surviving member of the 1950 England World Cup squad, was 93 at the time of his death on Friday.

As mayor of the city of Davao on the Southern island of Mindanao, he was accused of establishing vigilante groups and death squads to stop the sale and consumption of drugs.

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.

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about former leaders of Indonesian death squads isn't brilliant just because it sheds light on an oft - ignored chapter in history.

Using his experience with an American bomb squad to develop a fictitious story for «The Hurt Locker» is one thing, but writer Mark Boal's decision to tackle the death of Osama bin Laden takes journalistic moviemaking to another level, one that comes with an immense amount of societal and ethical pressure, on top of the challenge of just making a good movie.

After her near - death experience during her second mission on Zebes, Samus intercepts a distress call from a research colony and tries to uncover the mysterious events there along with a squad of Federation Soldiers, some of whom she used to serve with during her training.

Every time Forest Whitaker's hopeful, God - fearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a sit - down with Eric Bana's incarcerated, racist, death - squad assassin Piet Blomfeld, in lengthy, two - man scenes where they each pull out every emotion they can wring out, it's hard to shake the feeling this was done on a theater stage somewhere.

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».

This short educational film builds on the England football squad's historic 2012 visit to the site of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwi...

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.

East is a 15 - year - old gang member who works for his drug - dealer uncle, but when his slipup results in the death of a young girl, East is sent on a road trip as part of a four - man hit squad.

Lt. Eve Dallas and her squad take on corrupt cops in Robb's 33rd full - length novel featuring the New York Police and Security Dept. homicide detective (after Indulgence in Death), a fast - paced, intricate, and deadly dance of well - matched opponents.

The Bureau does feature perma - death for your squad, so decisions that you make on the battlefield can result in losing a strong agent with good abilities.

Carrying three fallen comrades as biochips in his equipment, Rogue is a one - unit squad of death and destruction, and he only has one thing on his mind — REVENGE.

You play as Ben Saxon, a former mercenary trying to get revenge on the Illuminati and other factions in the world of Deus Ex for the death of his former squad.

To fund death squads and pro-government militias, Taylor's regime gorged on profits from illegal timber sales.

Meanwhile, the AP reports that in Florida, state Rep. Brad Drake introduced a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injections in Florida executions, and instead require those on death row to choose between electrocution or a firing squad.