Sentences with phrase «sectarian violence»

Thousands of people have died in sectarian violence in India since Hindu extremists razed a Muslim mosque on the site in 1992.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan told Facebook Inc on Thursday that it should consider establishing a special team to respond more quickly to threats of sectarian violence in countries such as Myanmar that are at high risk.

Sri Lanka, faced with online content it says spurred deadly sectarian violence, has banned Facebook's social media and messaging services.

His foreign policy is a disaster (Russia, China, Egypt, tossing our ally Isreal under the bus, North Korea, Iran, Iraq now sinking into sectarian violence, Pakistan (the doctor who helped with Ben Laden rotting in jail while we keep pouring money in) and on and on.

The completion of this test dataset aimed to establish best practices in coding cultural heritage destruction information as well as a case study on the relationship between sectarian violence and cultural heritage destruction.

You would have known that Iraq would see sectarian violence, and that Islamists separatists would successfully attack major cities and seriously destabilize the region.

Facebook has faced fierce criticism from governments and rights groups in many countries for failing to do enough to stem hate speech and prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism, stir sectarian violence and broadcast acts including murder and suicide.

In April, the Good Friday agreement is signed in Northern Ireland, bringing 30 years of sectarian violence known as «The Troubles» to a close.

In other places, we have seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities tears communities apart.»

Cairo (CNN)- Muslim - Christian sectarian violence intensified in Egypt this weekend, spurring an emergency meeting of the Cabinet and public exhortations from Coptic Christians for international protection.

«This is a country without sectarian violence.

One Sunday on his way to morning worship at the church, Canon White counted sixty dead bodies strung up on lampposts and discarded along the road, victims all of the latest round of post-invasion sectarian violence.

On the one hand, ignorance of religious differences reduces sectarian violence.

The elections were marred by widespread sectarian violence, which claimed the lives of 800 people across the country, Buhari's won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner.

Mr Blair continued: «We did not create al - Qaeda or the Sunni insurgency and neither are we responsible for the small groups of Shia militia who visit this appalling sectarian violence on Sunnis.»

The Iraqi Academic Conference, organized by the Iraqi embassy, brought together scientists, physicians, and other academics to discuss aiding their counterparts in Iraq, where sectarian violence has been blamed for the deaths of more than 300 professors and the departure of hundreds more.

Without exploring Lebanon's own sectarian violence, choosing sides, or justifying behavior — in fact, without naming the country where the film takes place — she presents a fairy - tale metaphor for the conflict, in which the men of the village are quick to arms and to finger - pointing when anything goes wrong, and the women are willing to make any compromise and to try any far - fetched, crack - brained idea to defuse or distract.

Canadian journalist Deborah Campbell traveled to Damascus, Syria, in 2007 to report on the mass exodus of Iraqis into Syria in the wake of sectarian violence after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

He said the situation in Iraq, where the government says almost 2,000 civilians died in sectarian violence in December alone, was «truly dreadful».»

Sri Lanka, faced with online content it says has spurred deadly sectarian violence, this week banned Facebook's social media and messaging services in that country.

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

By the late 1960s the unrest between the nationalist counties and the remaining counties in Northern Ireland, that had been simmering for the intervening forty years, reached boiling point and exploded into sectarian violence.

The government says hate speech and fake news on the company's services has spurred deadly sectarian violence.

Into 2006, for example, some 100 people per day have been dying from suicide bombings, roadside attacks, and other aspects of sectarian violence, and what looks increasingly like civil war;

How can we square political instability, even political and sectarian violence, with this new generation of tech - enabled startups?

Sectarian violence in Iraq sent oil surging on Thursday, propelling both Brent and West Texas Intermediate up about two percent intraday amid growing concerns about a threat to global supply.

Elsewhere in the region, the U.S. has expressed concern about treatment of ethnic minorities in Libya and sectarian violence in Syria.

Typically, these regimes claim that it is their citizens who demand they impose restraints on religious minorities, and that easing these restrictions would foster social chaos, resulting in sectarian violence and terrorism.

Believers in Egypt have long complained of the threat of sectarian violence and institutional discrimination and there has been repeated pledges by President Abdel Fattah el - Sisi to protect Christians.

Sectarian violence in Egypt is nothing new.

Nothing could be further from the truth, a simple look at the sectarian violence and terrorism in the Middle East shows the true face of Islam as practiced in it's own backyard.

As Iraq continued to lose all semblance of order, Al - Doura steadily fell under the sway of the insurgents and became a hornet's nest of sectarian violence.

With all the religious nuts and sectarian violence in this world, it's good to see some believe in themselves rather than fictional tales...

i have been looking into it, it appears he is Christan killing Christians, sectarian violence its called.

The Washington Times: Coptic Christians in Egypt fear Islamists» rise Living in a nation marked by ongoing bouts of sectarian violence and no government protection, Ms. Hanna fears for the future of her town, Abo Korkas, which is tucked within the larger Upper Egyptian city of Minya and is home to both Muslims and Christians.

The March 4 atrocity illustrated the brutal nature of sectarian violence, revealing lessons for all believers in the monotheistic faiths, Christian, Muslim, or Jewish (the last had a thriving community in Yemen until the 20th century).

No one is immune from civil war and sectarian violence, it can happen so quickly and it takes so long to end once it started.

Seeing his name in the NCAA record book or on an NBA draft list was a distant dream in 1999, when Gai put a few belongings in a backpack and fled Khartoum to avoid compulsory army service in civil - war - torn Sudan, a country riven for decades by sectarian violence.

By the time she took silver in the 200, sectarian violence was boiling in Baghdad.

And last year more than 3000 Pakistanis were killed in terrorist, insurgency and sectarian violence in Pakistan itself.

Following the US overthrow of the regime, Iraq descended into the chaos of sectarian violence and civil war.

The handshake has been heralded as a milestone for Anglo - Irish relations after decades of sectarian violence.

The sectarian violence that has bedeviled Plateau State in over a decade has put the state in the headlines on both local and international media for...

In tomorrow's meeting with Mr Bush, Mr Blair is expected to reiterate his belief that the sectarian violence in Iraq can only be resolved by taking a «holistic approach» to the whole of the Middle East, including the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Buhari should shake up the police and other security agencies to crush kidnapping, armed robbery and sectarian violence.