Sentences with phrase «face of genocide»

An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story.

It will not stand neutral in the face of genocide or human rights abuses....

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regardless of what he said i regard it by the fruit he bore and what he bore was the dark Ages, manifest destiny, enslavement of the west Africans, the genocide of the Aztec, the holocaust, and the current ecological crises we know face.

With a straight face, they will defend a god of vengeance, genocide, petty murder, slaughter, eternal torture, etc., etc., etc., and proclaim that they have some sort of moral high ground.

If we accept the OT represents God's nature... then we must accept that He is the kind of God who will commit genocide of entire civilizations, slaughter innocent children for the sin of their parents, kill thousands of His own chosen people simply because they complained He was killing too many of them, would literally wipe out every man woman and innocent child on the face of the earth save one family and then later regret it.

«Congress has only faced votes a few times on the complex legal and moral questions of whether heinous crimes qualify as genocide — and division is deep about what, if anything, the label mandates the U.S. government to do.»

According to Nina Shea, who directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, «They are facing genocide by ISIS... the worst human rights violation of all.

Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.

Quite apart from the mistakes and sins of her own leaders, the Church in Europe in the years since the Enlightenment has faced constant pressure from revolutionary violence, intellectual contempt, ideological atheism, idolatry of the nation state, two disastrous world wars, and mass genocides.

«They are facing a humanitarian catastrophe and a real risk of genocide.

«Followers of Christ face horrific persecution and even genocide in certain parts of the world.

Rwanda after the genocide faced the difficult task of paying its soldiers.

Of the lessons Ambassador Pickering believes the US should take from the last decade into the next, foremost appeared the warning that military force is not a good substitute for diplomacy and, moreover, carries so many unintended consequences that it remains an unadvisable policy tool except in the most dire of circumstances — namely, in the face of direct aggression, in order to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocidOf the lessons Ambassador Pickering believes the US should take from the last decade into the next, foremost appeared the warning that military force is not a good substitute for diplomacy and, moreover, carries so many unintended consequences that it remains an unadvisable policy tool except in the most dire of circumstances — namely, in the face of direct aggression, in order to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocidof circumstances — namely, in the face of direct aggression, in order to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocidof direct aggression, in order to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocidof weapons of mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocidof mass destruction or in order to put an end to genocide.

He has been vocal on his Twitter and Face book accounts where he also condemned what the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, and several non-governmental organisations, NGOs, have described as genocide carried out on the people of Southern Kaduna.

DUTY BOUND KILLINGS Part of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, these photographs of Rwandans killed in a 1994 mass slaughter put human faces on an unimaginable tragedy.

Learn how you can get a Japanese woman, what difficulties you might have to face and W hile the slavery of Africans and the genocide of Native Americans are familiar topics to many, what the Chinese in America endured remains an unfamiliar

A reminder of the scope of humanity's flaws, it also concisely encapsulates the enormous task faced by anyone trying to come up with a comprehensive look at genocide.

uperheroes from across time and space face the biggest threat of their lives when twisted tyrant Thanos (Josh Brolin) inches closer to carrying out his goal of galactic genocide.

Briton Earl Cameron also gives a rather layered performance for the short time he is on screen as the once - great - turned - evil dictator whose life is threatened even as he is about to face charges of genocide.

Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the masterful «The Act of Killing,» in which the perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide were made to face their crimes, returns with a follow - up: «The Look of Silence.»

Over 90 % of the enemies you face don't even friggin» fight back, making the experience feel less like an epic battle so much as a systematic genocide.

Shot from the perspective of an Auschwitz prisoner, Saul (fellow Hungarian newcomer Géza Röhrig), condemned to work in the gas chambers in the twilight of World War II, Nemes» masterpiece avoids trivializing or sentimentalizing the Holocaust by centering the genocide's horrors in the face and body of one individual.

A Performance of Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia Brings Lessons of the Cambodian Genocide to Facing History Classrooms

Facing History is partnering with USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education to help educators access more than 1,500 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides using the Institute's online learning tool, IWitness.

From the disturbing lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides to struggles for civil rights from Birmingham to South Africa, Facing History trusts each rising generation of students to wrestle with complex moments in history, and works to help them understand the range of human behavior.

This was a victory for truth, but the struggle for the truth in the face of denial has been a reality on many fronts throughout history from the Herodotus» justifications of Greek atrocities to the Turkish official denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915 to the American government's denial of torturing civilian detainees in the Middle East.

There's much more to love: Adichie's depictions of modern Lagos, her portrait of life as an undocumented immigrant, her exploration of why someone who lived in a country that wasn't facing starvation or genocide, but simply a lack of opportunity, might be willing to risk all for a chance in the West — I could go on, but I'll stop there and just tell you to pick this one up already.

It's both well - written and compelling, and highly recommended to anyone who wishes to know more about the Armenian genocide or who has an interest in stories about survival in the face of near - certain death.

Kefka, however, committed genocide by knowingly poisoning the water supply of Doma (which also killed a bunch of his own men), hurled his emperor off of a floating continent, and changed the face of the earth just because he felt like it.

Whether the artist is making a statement about the corruption of religion, about genocide in Darfur, or simply about American pop culture, art has the ability to slap people in the face and wake them up, lull them into a sense of peace and tranquility, or inspire them to take up arms and march to war.

Each sculpture on view in this retrospective — the artist's first in the United States — suggests an internal composure, calm, balance, and utter maturity, sometimes bravery, in the face of death, homicide, and genocide.

Using his unique method for creating chlorophyll print photograms on tree leaves, Dahn then reproduces them in daguerreotype form to memorialize the faces of the Cambodian genocide.

Gentlemen, While I think that the total bull of CAGW will ultimately die a natural death in the face of growing facts and data to the contrary, the fact remains that should the worst happen and the CAGW cult truly gains power, we'll have to invent a whole new word to describe the outcome because genocide will be insufficient.

The real challenges facing this generation include out - of - control lying governments, tyrants, starvation, mass - murder, human rights abuses, international outfits and establishment shills determined to enslave humanity under various pretexts, genocide, and more.

She is the author of five books: «Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good» (2002), «Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair» (2002), «Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence» (1998), «Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law» (1997), and «Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law» (1990).

The principle of racial equality, at least on the face of the law, took hold in numerous ways, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Convention on Genocide, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.