Sentences with phrase «of civilian deaths»

In fact, 92 percent of civilian deaths in structure fires happen in homes.

Government coverup of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan revealed by WikiLeaks might be another example.

Seal turns every CIA directive or order into another money - making opportunity, trading guns meant for the Contras to the Columbians in exchange for cash, deliberately ignoring the consequences of his actions, both in the United States (the explosion of life - ruining drug abuse tied to the cartels) and in South and Latin America (the tens of thousands of civilian deaths euphemized away as «collateral damage» in the drug wars).

IED explosions have continued to cause the majority of civilian deaths.

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

The number of civilian deaths as a result of Al Shabaab activity nearly doubled between July and August 2013.

According to Airwars — a non-profit that attempts to keep track of the number of civilian deaths caused by coalition airstrikes in the Middle East — there has been a spike in casualties under President Trump.

Option 1: The Christian / atheist has to own ALL of the civilian deaths at the hands of said Christians governments / atheist governments.

With the near inevitability of a civilian death toll any time the Avengers are involved in an incident, the U.N. steps in with an accord proposing regulation and oversight of the super-powered people.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Trump said the U.S. - Saudi relationship had improved from the days of the Obama administration, which halted some arms sales to Saudi Arabia over concerns about civilian deaths in Yemen.

Israel said the high proportion of civilian Gazan deaths was the fault of Hamas, which embedded military infrastructure, including tunnel entrances and rocket launchers, in residential neighborhoods.

Five of its employees were indicted in 2007 in relation to the deaths of 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians — forcing the company to change its name to Xe Services in a bid to distance itself from the controversy.

According to The Wall Street Journal, body cameras have become a $ 1 billion industry since the deaths of Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black civilians at the hands of police officers.

The largest privately owned PR agency in the world, Edelman is currently representing Saudi Arabia as it manages crises over the impending crucifixion and beheading of a young political critic, and civilian deaths in the Saudi - led military intervention in Yemen.

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.

«Civilian morale collapsed with the scenes of death.»

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.

The controversial US military contracting firm was renamed Xe Services after employees were convicted in the deaths of Iraqi civilians.

Think of the new reports if Trump conducted this many strikes that generally resulted in civilian deaths.

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

The Soviets had their own concentration camps, and plenty of Polish nationals as well as Russian civilians ended up in there, to be worked, starved, or frozen to death.

lol, while those recent murders of the settler family were indeed barbaric, the current ratio of Palestinian civilian deaths to Israeli civilian deaths over the last decade is close to 100 to 1.

Then they turn around and vote for someone like GW Bush who is responsible for deaths of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.

Such an invocation of providence ignores what must then be divine complicity in the slaughter of tens of thousand Iraqi civilians, whose deaths were part of a plan for the realization of the kingdom through the Bush doctrine.

When a President (Bush) utilizes his military to invade another country (Iraq) and cause the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians all because he believed his god told him it was the right thing to do... yeah, I think we have a right to bash people who take direction from invisible sky fairies.

As a priest, I am forced into more encounters with death than most civilians outside of the medical profession.

Hundreds of rockets were fired, military force was striking back and civilian deaths were mounting on both sides.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

We must weigh the devastation of Iraq (even if there were no civilian deaths) and the promise of decades of future trouble in the region against the evil of failing to reverse promptly the August 2 annexation.

Wars by U.S. forces or by proxies — resulting in the death of 50,000 Iraqi civilians, 2 million Vietnamese, 200,000 Guatemalan peasants — don't make a dent in our self - image as long as we make «religious violence» the bogeyman.

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.

Killing someone should never be a cause for celebration or joy,» says Rick Halperin Although it seems reasonable to some to celebrate the death of someone who planned the death of over 3000 civilians, I personally think that this is not right since we're stooping down to their level of playing.

Does being pro-life include the lives of those on death row, enemy combatants / civilians in war, or funding government social programs that support women and children?

As our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq turned into major fiascoes, discrediting our military leadership, ruining our public finances, and bringing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of civilians in those countries, I continued to ponder the issue of empire.

He is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians.

We, as Christians, should not bowl to their Aiatolas, but as they do when exploding a bomb killing lots and lots of innocent civilians lives, let them try the same kind of death, without any warning, trial, judgment, etc..

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

However, to protest the death of civilians by killing civilians shows a lack of commitment to justice and only a desire for power.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

Americans have paid off whole families for the so called accidental death of civilians.

Westerners can denounce Muslim practices like the death penalty for apostasy (a very rare occurrence, by the way), but are we also willing to condemn violence perceived to be committed by «our» side — things like invasions, occupations and drone attacks that kill a disproportionate amount of civilians?

When trying to show why terrorism is the greater evil, Ignatieff lists his limiting conditions in mirror - image form: terror makes violence a first resort, «target [s] unarmed civilians and punish [es] them for their allegiance or ethnicity,» and seeks the death of politics itself.

Furthermore, the statistics of modern warfare show a far worse ratioof civilian to combatant deaths, in spite of all the advances in battlefield technology and bluster about «targeted drone strikes».

There is also a continually updated Crisis Tracker, with attack alerts and plotted / heat maps of categorically defined crises (divided according to: civilian death, abduction, civilian injury, displacement, looting, LRA sighting, returnee, and media), complete with verification ratings and elaborate timelines (see image below).

In 2009 for instance, former German defence minister Franz Joseph Jung had to step down over an airstrike in Afghanistan which caused the death of more than 100 civilians.

There is a something undeniably strange and seemingly hypocritical about focusing relentlessly on one series of deaths in Syria when Saudi Arabia is able to bomb civilian areas in Yemen while still being given the red carpet treatment when Mohammed bin Salman visits Britain.

UNAMA said aerial strikes killed 69 of the 223 civilian deaths by international forces in the first half of 2010 - a decrease of 64 % from the same period in 2009.

A sense of sacrifice or of «shedding blood to change the world» can also motivate civilian deaths, a prominent theme within Christianity.