Sentences with phrase «violence as a political tool»

He also denied any knowledge of or any intention to harm any individual as the political leadership in the state has never used violence as a political tool.

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Soon after there appeared on the scene another group of Christians who took a stand for violence — not, like the Anabaptists, as a means of relieving the oppressed and improving society, but as a political tool.

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

Unlike victims of political upheaval or violence, however, who have access through governments and international organizations to such assistance as financial grants, food, tools, shelter, schools and clinics, «environmental refugees» are not yet recognized in world conventions.