Sentences with phrase «forces occupied the country»

In the summer of 2003, four months after a U.S. - led coalition of armed forces occupied the country, masked Iraqi men woke up Kerrar and his family in the middle of the night in their home in Baghdad.

This changed in 1944 when Hitler discovered that Hungary had been secretly engaged in peace negotiations with the USA and UK and, shortly after, German forces occupied the country - after which wholesale deportation of Jews and Roma to concentration camps began.

Not exact matches

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.

And sometimes countries are in the tragic situation of having to go to war without the overwhelming force needed to occupy the country they invade.

On the 28th of October 1940 the Greek government rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding that Axis forces were given free entrance from neighbouring Albania and allowed to occupy strategic locations around the country.

It is a seminal work on the occupation and one of the most damning assessments of what being an occupying force does to a country.

Therefore, a huge number of artists became involved with the Liberation movements in a multitude of occupied countries, by joining the Allies forces or by simply supporting with their works.

Just as the Occupy movement has changed the nature of the economic conversation in this country, we the people must change the nature of the political conversation in this country, and thus force the issue of climate change into public consciousness as not only urgent but of primary importance.

This can create fights in our communities as we are forced to put unambiguous contemporary boundaries around our lands and waters that do not (and can not) represent the complex cultural ways that we can look after, inherit and occupy country.