Sentences with phrase «of war atrocities»

It's Peckinpah adopting Sam Fuller's tabloid - lurid splash pages; announcing that The Wild Bunch is akin to the unexpurgated The Big Red One in its diary of war atrocities.

In the run - up last spring to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a parade of pundits appeared nightly on the news, spouting ideas honed by a century's worth of war atrocities.

Not exact matches

Beyond the whistle, the group has developed partnerships with community leaders on the ground in DRC to assist in the rehabilitation of those who have been exposed to the atrocities of war.

The second category he calls «circumstantial evidence ``, which, if he was shown any of these, might cause him to rethink his position even if he doesn't convert: a genuinely flawless and consistent holy book; a religion without internal disputes or factions; a religion who's followers have never committed or taken part in atrocities; a religion that had a consistent record of winning its jihads and holy wars.

Rape isn't the only atrocity women face as a result of war; displacement also has lasting implications for women, families and communities.

Collecting her award the day after Ratko Mladic was found guilty of genocide and other atrocities during the 1990s Bosnian war, Dr Hood the occasion was «very poignant».

The devastation and moral atrocities of the war, the rebuilding of European legal systems, the emergence of....

Only one evil force was guilty of starting the war, only one foul foe committed horrible atrocities, and these men and people had to be utterly crushed and punished.

How often has your «god» let them die, let atrocities of war go unanswered, let entire regions lose their crops and folks starve??

It was a very popular view in the Nineteenth century, but two world wars and all of the atrocities that have taken place in the past 50 years or so has really put a damper on postmillennial teachings.

It seems like no matter where you turn these days, you run into countless stories of injustice, suffering, pain, war, famine and other atrocities that seem to be plaguing our world.

However, I sometimes wonder if on Judgment Day we will be as proud when we learn about atrocities our nation has committed against Muslim nations in the form of economics, or unjustified wars, or price manipulation of crops and technology, or who knows what else?

Looking at it another way, too: the privileged few in the Christianized world no longer engage in World Wars and atrocities largely because they actually control most of the world's resources.

War is the greatest creator of fertile ground for genocides and atrocities.

The editors had feared atrocity - mongering of the World War I sort.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

The current war is a small skirmish that has killed relatively few people compared to the ethnic cleansing and atrocities of the 1990s.

Because they oppress those they oppose, they start wars with those who don't believe like them, they oppress women... and countless other atrocities that are beyond the scope of this blog.

The present - day narrative alternates with passages set before, during, and after World War II, and it was in the depiction of the atrocities perpetrated by my Nazi characters that I shocked myself.

They are severe critics of war, its atrocities, its trust in weapons, its reliance on alliances.

It's likely to produce a negative reaction with some millennial Christians, many of whom gravitated toward the pacifism of Shane Claiborne as a reaction to the atrocities of the war in Iraq.

But even when the morality even of killing is relativized to the specific circu - mstances, certain killings like witch burnings, pogroms against the Jews, atrocities in religious wars, etc, etc are still clearly wrong.

It doesn't matter whether a movie explores the atrocities of war, glorifies war, or even pokes fun at war — I just can't sit through ninety minutes of human beings blowing each other to pieces without facing the temptation to give up on the goodness of God altogether.

also my Grandma was a refugee from the second world war and she would cry (if she was still alive) if she heard of this going on bringing back Horrible memories of the Atrocities of what the Germans did..

Baroness Cox became a champion of the suffering Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, travelling at the height of the war to bring humanitarian aid, and to document the atrocities and provide a voice in the outside world.

Take any war, any struggle, or any fight by any nation or any group of people in the history of the world, in which their goal was liberty and freedom, and you will find countless atrocities, murders, and crimes, all committed in the name of liberty.

You are right though, war, atrocities have been done not only in the name of religion but for other reasons as well.

There was not only widespread acknowledgment of atrocities committed by the government during the war but also deep resentment towards the misdistribution of funds by the Museveni regime and the resultant lack of service provision and development in the north.

A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.

Elaborating on the extensive killing of Bosnian Muslims during the Second World War, he did not remember the great numbers of Serbs slaughtered in concentration camps, nor the number of Muslims who joined Croat forces and participated in atrocities.

After the failure of other measures to stop the war and atrocities in Bosnia, there was public pressure (specially in Western Europe countries) to avoid a repeat of it in Kosovo.

They often engage in denial that their local collaborationist units participated in Holocaust and other atrocities (it was all done by the Germans, you know, but we only fought for freedom against Stalinism) and / or claim it was a mistake, excess, exaggerated (by the Soviets), or because of the general cruelty of the war.

War really is an atrocity most of the time.

All the hidden secrets of the atrocities and crimes against humanity committed against the people of Biafra during the war of genocide between 1967 and 1970 will become the most talked about topic within diplomatic circles around the world until Nigeria collapses.

«It improves international security by allowing nongovernmental actors to monitor the actions of nations,» says Hitchens, who points to Amnesty International; that group has launched eyesondarfur.org, a Web site that broadcasts satellite imagery of 12 vulnerable villages in war - torn western Sudan, empowering the public to document atrocities and track the movement of refugees and troops.

THE horrors of the Iran - Iraq war, in which tens of thousands were killed by chemical weapons, leave no doubt of the danger Syrians face from further atrocities like last week's in Damascus.

Jerry speaks of his most famous character, Holden Caulfield, becoming his «companion» during his time spent in Europe for World War 2 and how, once he returns home, it's difficult for him to continue writing The Catcher in the Rye because thinking about Holden reminds him of the atrocities he experienced.

Blocker hates Native Americans, as is made clear from his closed - off face — as distant as a figure in a daguerreotype — and his grim reminiscences of surviving and committing atrocities during the Indian Wars.

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

And then there is the Prime Minister of Sweden creating an international incident by comparing the bombing of Hanoi to Nazi war atrocities which while an exaggeration is still a war crime.

Writer / director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and co-writer Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) have delivered a sweeping historical epic that is immensely watchable by not over-blowing the romantic triangle, the war atrocities or the courage and bravery of the main characters.

But World War I — itself not short on unimaginable atrocities — also had its own incident of race - based mass extermination.

In a rare turn of events that suggests maybe we're not living in the darkest timeline after all, this category — usually home to the most devastating and despair - inducing glimpses inside war zones and historical atrocities — includes zero films about the Holocaust, Syria, or murder.

The character, as Ray apparently sees him, is not the charismatic hero of legend, but rather an angry young man, driven by the atrocities his family suffered during the Civil War to revenge himself on Yankees by stealing their money, first from banks, then trains.

Although best known for his big budget blockbusters, Spielberg said his favourite project was his Holocaust documentary for the Shoah Foundation, which collected the testimonies of survivors of the World War Two atrocity.

Intimate Enemies (Unrated) Algerian war saga, set in 1959, focusing on the strained relationship of a battle - hardened sergeant (Albert Dupontel) and an officer (Benoit Magimel) new to the front who is reluctant to participate in any barbaric atrocities or crimes against humanity.

In America, noir built tragedy out of post-war paranoia, men trapped in a world that no longer made sense after the atrocities of war and the reshuffling of social roles at home: women are dangerous harbingers of change and violence is a matter of course.

First, as a historical document, it's a Hollywood cartoon mocking Hitler (before the end of the war and the extent of his atrocities became clear).

The fact that the film is exploiting the history of slavery in the USA in order to make a triumphantly violent movie is no more controversial than Inglourious Basterds «exploitation of Nazi atrocities during World War II.

Set traps, collect and craft consumables to survive while exploring a devastated city ravaged by the atrocities of war.