Sentences with phrase «ethnic cleansing by»

She's one of the more than 650,000 Rohingya refugees who arrived in this camp five months ago to escape what the U.N. has called a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military.
This amounts to genocide or ethnic cleansing by Pakistanis.
The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

Not exact matches

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after militant attacks on Aug. 25 sparked a crackdown led by security forces in western Rakhine state that the United Nations and United States have said constitute ethnic cleansing.
We expect just a bunch of people mostly living in a suburb in Northern California [to] safeguard U.S. elections in 2018, not cause ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, not help Duterte kill off people he doesn't like in Philippines, not kill off media companies by mistake in Serbia, and a few more.»
But one Twitter user responded by advocating ethnic cleansing: «Great work Diane for creating a no go zone under your watch and your black community.
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride - price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
Those who defend these stories as historical realities representative of God's true desires and actions in the world typically respond to challenges to that interpretation by declaring: «God is God, and if God orders ethnic cleansing, we have no business questioning it.»
As a rule, this happened under the cloak of fighting the partisans [in Soviet territories], yet those who were directly or indirectly involved could scarcely fail to see that the SS brigades and Einsatzgruppen were carrying out a comprehensive «ethnic cleansing,» to which the Wehrmacht, if only by condemning large numbers of Russians to starvation, were giving active support.»
In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been described as «a textbook example of ethnic cleansing» by the United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi didn't criticise the army and said she did not «fear international scrutiny».
That's not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults around the planet.
If everyone is a sinner from birth onwards, by your own argument all the infants slaughtered in the Old Testament ethnic cleansings went straight to hell ------------------- — No, because although salvation is an act of God, we are also required to make a choice.
@Theo If everyone is a sinner from birth onwards, by your own argument all the infants slaughtered in the Old Testament ethnic cleansings went straight to hell.
These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.
In the past, it has passed for example Resolution 47/121 condemning ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serbs.
A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.
The Government endured sustained criticism of plans to cut housing benefits led by the London Mayor Boris Johnson, who likened the policy to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
12.29 - Cameron asked by Lib Dem MP to condemn Israel for the «ethnic cleansing» of Bedouin.
In particular, he said there was a danger that it could lead to de-jumblification - by which he meant ethnic or social cleansing.
Walker has previously described Britain as a «multicultural shithole» which is under the process of «ethnic cleansing» and warned that the country faces many more Lee Rigby - style executions perpetrated by «tribal African» people.
Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!
12:30 - Sir Bob Russell (Lib Dem, pomposity increasing daily) starts by saying ethnic cleansing is evil.
I never knew that he was the sort of man that would sit by idly and quietly whilst his own southern people and members of his own Christian faith are being humiliated, cheated, persecuted, enslaved, marginalised, slaughtered and, in some cases, being subjected to ethnic cleansing.
The Christian Association of Nigerian has condemned the killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna describing it as ethnic and religious cleansing by «Islamic fundamentalists disguising as Fulani herdsmen», with evil intention of wiping off non-Muslims.
Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.
Recently the Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) made some disturbing allegations of ethnic cleansing of Yoruba in federal appointments by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
She condemned the killings, describing it as an ethnic cleansing and called on President Buhari to rise to the occasion by bringing it to an end.
These are the fundamental human rights questions posed by this super-realistic docudrama which takes a long look at ethnic cleansing from both the perspective of the cleansed and from the point - of - view of the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity.
This century has brought barbaric episodes of large - scale violence and trauma: the Holocaust, the Cambodian killing fields, the unprecedented state - terror generated by the Latin American counterinsurgency campaigns, the organized ethnic cleansings and sexual assaults in the former Yugoslavia, and the carefully orchestrated interethnic bloodbaths in Rwanda and Burundi.
The Trump Administration, led by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is now engaging in a low - grade form of ethnic cleansing.
With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream.
BPL: The Soviets claim 20 million, but ignore the 9 million who died in ethnic cleansing operations ordered by Stalin during the war, which were probably added to the total.
In short to blame Global Warming, (even it is caused by man) for starvation and death is to ignore the deliberate state policies that either destroyed their countries economies such as Zimbawe, North Korea, or the criminal actions such as the Sudanese government and its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
They came a little too late in the game to carry out a total ethnic cleansing of Palestine (see «The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine» by Ilan Pappe, a Jewish Israeli author), but that hasn't prevented them from pursuing the same objective as early European colonizers to North America of purging the the native populethnic cleansing of Palestine (see «The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine» by Ilan Pappe, a Jewish Israeli author), but that hasn't prevented them from pursuing the same objective as early European colonizers to North America of purging the the native pocleansing of Palestine (see «The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine» by Ilan Pappe, a Jewish Israeli author), but that hasn't prevented them from pursuing the same objective as early European colonizers to North America of purging the the native populEthnic Cleansing of Palestine» by Ilan Pappe, a Jewish Israeli author), but that hasn't prevented them from pursuing the same objective as early European colonizers to North America of purging the the native poCleansing of Palestine» by Ilan Pappe, a Jewish Israeli author), but that hasn't prevented them from pursuing the same objective as early European colonizers to North America of purging the the native population.
As a starting point, given the significant Israeli Arab population, if Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing, it's doing a damned poor job of it (and while I wouldn't deny that Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens has been anything to be proud of, it's worth noting that whatever understandable sympathy those Arab citizens may have for their kith and kin in the Palestinian territories, they have no particular desire to join them, much less be governed by them).
«By implementing racially discriminatory policies in South Ossetia and Abkhazia», Georgia submits, «under the cover of its peacekeeping mandate the Russian Federation has sought to consolidate the forced displacement of the ethnic Georgian and other populations that resulted from «ethnic cleansing» from 1991 - 1994.»
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