Sentences with phrase «resources pillaged»

We may not like their decisions, but they probably did not like being colonized and having their resources pillaged by European countries for centuries either.

First, there is no context of the resource pillage and mineral exploitation (coltan, diamonds, copper, cobalt and gold) of transnational corporations which helps to sustain the conflict in the DRC.

In addition to the armed conflict and resulting humanitarian crisis currently impacting the country, widespread natural resource pillaging (specifically mining, wildlife poaching and trafficking, and pastoralist pressures) involving armed groups has been widely reported.

Not exact matches

«For the people of Burma, it will mean the return to power of a brutal regime that has pillaged the nation's resources and overseen widespread human rights abuses.»

Tinubu said that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was the worst culprit in the pillaging of the nation's resources.

If a few can pillage the resources of the nation and get away with it, then we'll just continue to go around with it.»

Staying at such a place is a good way to ensure that locals can benefit from tourism and not be tempted to pillage their region's natural resource base.

The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.

It is a steampunk - style film, based on the novel of the same name, that reimagines cities as raucous, roving metropolises intent on finding and pillaging smaller transient towns for their resources.

By being technologically advanced it refutes common assumptions of Africans as savage, while the continued pillaging of his nations vibranium parallels the European and American colonial theft of Africa's national resources.

«And we have seen not just in New York City but nationwide an avid pillaging going on of public resources for private ends.»

• Selfish and corrupt national marine park officials allowing fishing boats into supposedly protected waters, to plunder and pillage sensitive and irreplaceable resources.

Simply put, Monster Hunter is a series about pillaging resources, defeating monsters, and leveling up your gear to take on the next giant behemoth around the bend.

Will you create a reliable crew of space - faring explorers, or will you take to the less moral route of looting and pillaging the hard - earned resources of others?

While gold and wood are produced automatically over time, players can also pillage additional resources during single - player or multiplayer battles.

So far the vast majority of first world populations (whose lifestyles depend on the constant looting, plundering, and pillaging of resources from other countries) have shown little to no concern over the barbaric behavior of their «governments».

Enough aims to counter rights - abusing armed groups and violent regimes that are fueled by grand corruption, crime and terror, and the pillaging and trafficking of minerals and other natural resources.