Sentences with phrase «kill noncombatants»

It establishes that one can not intentionally or directly kill noncombatants.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

It means risking the lives of one's own combatants and not intentionally killing noncombatants.

Not exact matches

And Anscombe, who powerfully protested Allied direct attacks on German and Japanese noncombatants during World War II — that is, choices to kill the innocent for the sake of «good consequences» — knew firsthand utility's work on that score.

Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants.

The second pertains to what is called «noncombatant immunity,» meaning that there must be no intentional killing of innocent civilians.

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.