Sentences with phrase «of death squads»

These paintings were created concurrently with the United States intervention into El Salvador and were strongly influenced by contemporary headlines of the death squads and attendant institutionalized torture.

The Colombian artist has been around long enough to become something of a role model for Latin American art, to the point that he has earned an acronym, JASL, and theirs is not the Colombia of death squads and drug wars for Juan Manuel Echavarría.

The course established a team of forensic anthropologists in Guatemala who worked to identify victims of death squads.

Let us remember the victims of death squads in El Salvador and Haiti, the victims of massacres in Guatemala, the victims of paramilitary and guerrilla violence in Colombia, the victims of rightwing and military violence in Chiapas, the victims of the military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.

They talk about the «reappearance» of the death squads, but the death squads never disappeared.

How could the party of the death squads win last spring's elections, even with all the money it poured into the campaign?

Being Nigerian, Mombasa must obviously be the warlord of a death squad.

Not exact matches

After a 10 - year moratorium, the death penalty became a part of the US criminal justice system again in 1977 when a firing squad killed the murderer Gary Gilmore.

The U.S. government cites reduced numbers of death - squad victims as «proof» of its commitment to human rights in El Salvador and the success of that commitment.

Plenty of examples of that happening in Central and South America - priests and nuns murdered by fascist death squads.

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.

Falling into the clutches of a Central American death squad?

The beginning of the sectarian conflict started when Assad used Alawaite death squad militias.

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.

The symbolic significance of the Army's murder of the country's leading academic and religious figures can not be overstated: the deaths signal that, once again, no one is safe from Army and death squad violence... The Bush Administration has taken the position that the Jesuit murders were a dramatic departure from Salvadoran army policy, and represent an opportunity for President Cristiani to demonstrate that the army is not above the law.

The intelligence services of the army are death squads.

• There is increased evidence of U.S. involvement with Salvador's death squads.

Sign or no sign, the feared Cherokee jeeps that are identified with death squads and disappearances patrolled the streets in front of the offices.

According to the article, «two U.S. military officers assigned to advise the El Salvadoran military... were «part and parcel» of death - squad operations carried out by an elite intelligence branch of the Salvadoran army.»

The litany of charges pervaded conservative magazines and talk shows: Clinton was a drug - dealer and racketeer; he had purloined FBI files and organized death squads; he was guilty of fraud, theft and serial adultery; he raped at least one woman and arranged the murder of friend and staff member Vince Foster.

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By the time their vital organs were transported to a laboratory, diagnosis was difficult, but the best guess was 1080 — the favorite chemical of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's death squads.

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The Dark Blues, fielding a mix of Greyhounds and 1st team squad members, were made to sweat at the death when the home side scored a last minute try and had a conversion to claim a draw.

For the boys in green, who will make up the oldest squad in the tournament, escaping the «group of death» to reach the knockout stages would be a real achievement.

Bentley, who was the last - surviving member of the 1950 England World Cup squad, was 93 at the time of his death on Friday.

A lawsuit has been brought against Coca - cola in Columbia for their open relationships with anti-labour death squads, and Nestle itself has been accused of using violent intimidation to control its workforce in the same country.

As mayor of the city of Davao on the Southern island of Mindanao, he was accused of establishing vigilante groups and death squads to stop the sale and consumption of drugs.

Whilst what we have in the UK is patently not a «distributed totalitarianism» such as happened with the South American death squads of 80s, the trends are extremely worrying.

Indonesia already has some of the toughest anti-narcotics laws in the world, including death by firing squad for traffickers, and sparked international uproar in April when it put to death seven foreign drug convicts.

He invoked the deaths of two NYPD officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, whose murders as they sat in their squad car in Brooklyn ignited already smoldering tensions across the city and among lawmakers, the mayor and the police force.

One was the drug - trafficking leader of a South American death squad.

Ah yes, Kim Howells, friend of the Colombian death squads.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.

That's where the playwright resides) just freed from a military junta and its new democratic president announces the formation of a human rights commission to investigate that fascist regime's police methods of torture and its notorious death squads.

We don't get a lot of names right off, but the group is composed of an ex - black ops guy turned mercenary [Brody], an Israeli sniper [Alice Braga], a Mexican drug cartel enforcer [Danny Trejo], a convicted murder / rapist two days from being executed [Walton Goggins], a Sierra Leone death squad member [Mahershalalhashbaz Ali], a yakuza member [Louis Ozawa Changchien], a Russian special forces soldier [Oleg Taktarov] and a bewildered doctor [Topher Grace].

The Act of Killing (Unrated) Macabre musical documentary in which Indonesian death squad leaders reenact real - life mass executions in a manner mimicking the classic Hollywood films they so admire.

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about former leaders of Indonesian death squads isn't brilliant just because it sheds light on an oft - ignored chapter in history.

Using his experience with an American bomb squad to develop a fictitious story for «The Hurt Locker» is one thing, but writer Mark Boal's decision to tackle the death of Osama bin Laden takes journalistic moviemaking to another level, one that comes with an immense amount of societal and ethical pressure, on top of the challenge of just making a good movie.

by Bill Chambers Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is devastating because it doesn't offer any moral opposition to the glibly boastful first - hand accounts of Indonesian death squads; and his The Look of Silence is devastating because it does.

After her near - death experience during her second mission on Zebes, Samus intercepts a distress call from a research colony and tries to uncover the mysterious events there along with a squad of Federation Soldiers, some of whom she used to serve with during her training.

With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold - blooded killers: mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human Predators that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) has a quirky enough personal life (she faces married life and the death of Kitty this season, not to mention a problem niece — played by Sedgwick's real - life daughter, Sosie Bacon — who overstays her welcome) but what makes the show so good is her loyalty and leadership and the chemistry of her team, a squad we have watched mature into a crack unit of detectives each working at the top of their game.

When an FBI hit squad infiltrates Frank's home and tries to kill him, the highly - trained specialist must gather together his old team of operatives, including Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), and Victoria (Helen Mirren), to uncover the mystery behind his death warrant.

No one will hire him because he's either too drunk, too dishonest or too leftist to be relied on to take pictures of the various atrocities committed by right - wing death squads, left - wing guerillas or the American military - intelligence «advisors».

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).

With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold - blooded killers — mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members — human «predators» that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien predators.

As teenage revolutionaries, Paulina was captured by a death squad and forced to endure months of electroshock torture and rape, but refused to rat out her then - boyfriend Gerardo.

This short educational film builds on the England football squad's historic 2012 visit to the site of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwi...