Sentences with phrase «over civilian deaths»

Interest in tagging technology has been driven in part by growing pressure on the White House over civilian deaths in US drone attacks.

This growth has been accompanied by growing criticism over civilian deaths.

Not exact matches

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After all, they had ordered and presided over the direct and indirect killing of tens or hundreds of thousands - in attacks on civilian and half - civlian targets, in «collateral damage», through the debilitating sanctions in 1990s that resulted in a huge death toll, indirectly through stoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and so on.

In April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custody.

Back in August, Soares» office had asked Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to take over the investigation into Ivy's death, based on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order giving Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in police - involved civilian deaths.

The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board urged a state judge to compel the Staten Island district attorney to hand over the minutes of the grand jury proceedings in the death of Eric Garner.

The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board urged a state judge on Friday to compel the Staten Island district attorney to hand over the minutes of the grand jury proceedings in the death of Eric Garner.

In an email NYC Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James recalled the horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Lower Manhattan and the destruction of the World Trade Center causing the deaths of over 3,000 civilians and first responders: «On September -LSB-...]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman huddled with minority lawmakers at the governor's Midtown office Monday over his recent executive order giving Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in certain police - involved deaths of civilians.

Cuomo's order, issued in the wake of the national uproar over last summer's deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, hands the responsibility for the investigation of unarmed deaths of civilians at the hands of police to the attorney general's office, which would also handle any resulting prosecutions that emerge.

According to the State Government which described the former civilian Governor of the state astute and colourful politician and a generous personality, said its still in shock over the ultimate death of a prominent son of our state which can not be replaced.

Last year, Cuomo signed an executive order to appoint state Attorney General as special prosecutor over cases involving unarmed civilian deaths by police.

Over the same 6 - year period, the leaked documents note 4024 Afghan civilian deaths.

They show twice as many civilians killed over the same period, including 393 deaths by air strikes that were not counted in the military database.

In Iraq over that period, soldiers reported a total of 79,000 civilian deaths, 15,000 of which the media missed (Science, 29 October 2010, p. 575).

For 2009 and 2010, its data include 5191 civilian deaths, over 70 % of them caused by «antigovernment elements,» 20 % by «pro-government forces,» and the rest undetermined.

In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities.

They also collected data from 586 adults in Sierra Leone following an 11 - year civil war that ended in 2002, which led to the displacement of much of the population and the deaths of over 50,000 civilians.

For instance, take the case of Union Carbide / Dow Chemical, the multi-national responsible for the leak of toxic fumes in Bhopal, India which directly led to the deaths of over 25,000 innocent civilians.

Later that month ETA declared a ceasefire, ending nearly 40 years of fighting which resulted in over 800 deaths (more than half civilians)- only time will tell if they will honor it this time.

In R (on the application of Al - Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence — which arose from complaints against the UK about the deaths of six Iraqi civilians — the Law Lords ruled by a four to one majority that HRA 1998 applied overseas, including detention centres over which British troops had «effective control».