Sentences with phrase «killings of civilians»

District Attorneys across New York are bristling at state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's new authority to investigate police killings of civilians.

ALBANY — State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan says the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate police killings of civilians would represent a «radical departure» from traditional grand jury procedures.

Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Schneiderman a special prosecutor to investigate cases of police - involved killings of civilians.

Tell Governor Cuomo to keep his commitment to the families of New Yorkers killed by police and sign the RIGHT executive order for a Special Prosecutor to investigate ALL cases of police - involved killings of civilians without a one year time limit!

For instance, when activists pressured Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate instances of police - involved killings of civilians, David was the go - between.

As his largely Sunni military defected due to the unarmed killings of civilians and he could risk using them on the new front lines.

The memories of a dozen American soldiers, interviewed by the Associated Press and the persistence of two national councils of churches — Korean and American — have brought to light one of the few documented intentional killings of civilians by an American army unit.

Bishop Declan Lang, Chair of the Bishops» Conference Department for International Affairs, has called the killing of civilians in Eastern Ghouta a «grievous offence to our common humanity».

Was anyone who donated to Bush's campaign donating to the killing of civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan?

How many time this öut reaching «were caught with plans for more killing of civilians?

My point was that I suggest the killing of civilians in military action in the Gulf can be considered to be evil.

Meanwhile, according to CatholicCulture.org Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent representative to UN offices based in Geneva, deplored the killing of civilians in the Gaza - Israel conflict and called for an immediate ceasefire.

I do not like that my taxes supported the killing of civilians in war but I choose to be an American citizen and abide by its rules.

The mass killing of civilians, both in and outside armed conflict, is one of the greatest challenges facing human civilisation.

«Confidential UN report details mass killings of civilian villagers».

Ed Miliband has intensified his criticism of David Cameron for his failure to condemn Israel's «unacceptable and unjustifiable» killing of civilians in Gaza.

To my great disappointment, these friends disagreed with me and criticized Israel for its disproportionate use of force and the killing of civilians, both war crimes according to international law.

Human Rights Watch warned that fully autonomous weapons would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians.

Not exact matches

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

Miller claims that every one of the clips shown has been independently verified, but is forced to concede in his report for the Guardian, «I heard nothing but denials that the security forces were shooting, shelling and torturing civilians... we lived in a bubble, seeing nothing of the extreme brutality and killing for which the Syrian regime is so notorious.»

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

But there are other ways Assad can kill hundreds of civilians at once, as he's been doing for years with virtual impunity: barrel bombs.

Hours before the US launched the missiles, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state, said the previous administration «should have been more willing to confront Assad» after previous chemical attacks killed thousands of innocent civilians.

In Gaza, more than 2,000 people were killed, with Israel putting the percentage of civilians killed at approximately 50 percent and the Palestinians estimating it to be closer to 70 %.

A total of 74 people — 68 soldiers, 11 of whom were killed in cross-border tunnel attacks; and 6 civilians — died on the Israeli side of the conflict.

Roughly 25,000 people, many of them civilians and refugees, were killed, and more than 75,000 buildings were destroyed.

Last week, one of those attacks killed a teenage girl and wounded another civilian in the Turkish town of Reyhanli.

The coalition has launched thousands of air strikes which have hit schools, markets and hospitals, killing hundreds of people - though it says it does not target civilians.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Medical relief groups said dozens of civilians were killed, and one video circulated by activists showed the bodies of around a dozen men, women and children lifeless on the floor, some of them with foam at the mouth.

About 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them troops fighting Hezbollah, were killed in the 2006 war, which displaced a million people in Lebanon and up to 500,000 in Israel.

In 2007, Blackwater guards were accused of manslaughter in connection with a shooting that killed more than dozen civilians in Iraq.

The Obama Administration's use of drones to attack terrorist targets has drawn scrutiny from those who point out that those same attacks sometimes kill civilians.

Tillerson responded by emphasizing the horror of the Assad regime's recent chemical weapons attack on civilians, which killed dozens last week.

Setting aside the enormous costs of the war (direct spending of over $ 700 billion on everything from construction, payouts to families of killed civilians to nonsense like designer goats and a $ 36 million unused command center), an even harder truth is this: There is nothing beyond the most tenuous of linkages between Afghanistan's security and governance and America's national security.

The use of a range of estimated civilian deaths underscored the fact that the government often does not know for sure the affiliations of those killed.

Or think about Ukraine, where recent fighting has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

A station wagon packed with Afghan civilians struck a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, triggering an explosion that killed 16 people, 11 of them children, Afghan officials said.

The Saudi - led coalition against Houthi rebel forces there has killed hundreds of civilians, among them children.

2 million Vietnamese killed 600 k Iraqis bombed to death 1000sounds of Afghans civilians many in south America.

However, relations between al - Qaeda and ISIS were strained (reportedly, ISIS refused orders to stop killing so many civilians) and, in February of 2014, the groups split.

The fact that the passengers and crew of Flight 1549 were terrorized and the plane destroyed, that 11 innocent people are dead in Aurora, that the girl was held for seven days, ra.ped and sod.omized and will be traumatized for the rest of her life, or that a number of innocent civilians were killed by the missile.

Yet the Ugandan government's army is hardly innocent of atrocities either, having displaced, tortured, and killed numerous civilians in Uganda as well as in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Last week an attack on civilians in Syria killed at least 126 people - including 68 children - on the outskirts of Aleppo.

A spokesman for the UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon said: «The Secretary - General is alarmed by the preliminary findings of a fact finding investigation by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) into the attack on Hotel Terrain in Juba on 11 July, in which one person was killed and several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.

So Israel follows the «do not kill» edict when it deliberately seeks out and bombs the civilian homes and wives and tiny children of elected Palestinian government officials.?

It violates our most basic God - given rights just as Jesus would not advocate aggressive preemptive wars killing thousands of innocent civilians as a means of attaining peace.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said around 20 civilians were killed in the air strikes that hit an aid convoy in northern Syria.

It's thought Boko Haram has killed more than 5,000 civilians between July 2009 and June 2014, including at least 2,000 in the first half of 2014.

What the article omitted is that the Egyptians failed to police their side of the border to prevent Palestinian and Al Queda terrorists from attacking Israel from Sinai and killing innocent Israeli civilians.