Sentences with phrase «pacification by»

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Taking the hot seat was vice president of partnerships, Gene Alston, who pre-empted any questioning on the Cambridge Analytica data breach by launching into a pre-prepared pacification at the intro stage of the keynote session.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

«By - products,» «pacification,» «sanitized belts» — such language hides the truth that human beings are dying and families are being destroyed.

Tarfaya was made whilst working at the Moroccan Cinema Center through the permissible format of the regional documentary; Mémoire 14 consists of re-cut films shot by the French during the conquest and so - called pacification of Morocco.