Sentences with phrase «war crimes by»

Similar critiques that war crimes by rebels in Darfur are not equally investigated are also being raised.

I am awaiting a fair trial for my war crimes by the state of Israel.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

Boko Haram continues to commit war crimes by wilfully destroying churches and pursing a relentless campaign of religious cleansing against Christian communities in southern Borno.

What is your definition of a war crime by a national leader, and how are you not one who is included in that definition?

Not exact matches

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

GC: The Mexican government had already declared war on drugs and organized crime by the time the war between the Gulf Cartel and Zetas began, and the cartel war attracted the Mexican government.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

Though some analysts cite evidence that indictments from the ICTY deterred war crimes in Yugoslavia, such claims are vastly overshadowed by the Serb massacre of some eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995, with the Hague sulking in the north.

Timor - Leste, for instance, addressed its war of 1974 to 1999 by undertaking Community Reconciliation Panels for crimes less than rape and murder, such as arson, beating, and theft.

If I were harrassed by these hypocritical, war - promoting anti-abortionista's, I'd merely sue them on «relgious - hate - crimes» grounds, as my pagan belief leaves ALL failed culture war issues up to me!

The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).

It is claimed by some that terrorist attacks are not acts of war but crimes to be punished by international tribunals.

Both, by the way, are considered war crimes if not crimes against humanity by the UN.

In a statement, they said that the airstrike constitutes a war crime: «Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, [Doctors Without Borders] demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laWar the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or lawar crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

But here's a clue: almost NOBODY believes that killing is absolutely wrong, as some subset or other of the standard exceptions, ie acts during times of war, executions for at least some crimes, the unborn, euthanasia, even self defense are credited by almost everyone.

In some sense to render it «do not murder» rather than «do not kill» is more accurate, for it does not seem, originally at least, to have ruled out killing in a war or execution by the proper authorities for some serious crime against the community.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

Eighth, the United States punishes the «crimes of the poor» by waging a criminal war against the poor.

Take any war, any struggle, or any fight by any nation or any group of people in the history of the world, in which their goal was liberty and freedom, and you will find countless atrocities, murders, and crimes, all committed in the name of liberty.

Update 1 August 2013: Apparently stung by criticism of taking a Nestlé paycheck, George Clooney told the Guardian: «Most of the money I make on the [Nespresso] commercials I spend keeping a satellite over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on Omar al - Bashir [the Sudanese dictator charged with war crimes at The Hague].»

Generally speaking, in a genuine military conflict between nations, it is not considered a war crime to target a military installation that is used by «combatants» in a conflict (as opposed to civilians or hospitals for the wounded, for example).

One of the more notable, retrospective, criminal Acts in the UK is the War Crimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva ConventioWar Crimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva ConvenCrimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Conventiowar crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Convencrimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Conventions.

Sudan's president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

We would be able to protect millions if not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill around the planet too.»

Those who are cynical about prosecuting war crimes at the international level will first point out that the Special Court of Sierra Leone has been backed and financed by the West (primarily the US, UK, Netherlands, and Canada).

A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.

The international community may condemn war crimes committed by individuals, but as long as they're isolated incidents they would not justify an international response.

A Downing Street spokesman said: «The prime minister made clear that he strongly believes in the need for a tough and robust response to the appalling war crime committed by the Assad regime in Ghouta.

The French and British have reiterated these threats, Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, saying that all Libyans accused of war crimes should be tried by the ICC.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

It is during these campaigns that we find many of the worst and most controversial stories of war crimes and plunder engaged in by the Rwandan army and its allies.

Rights groups accuse his government, however, of pursuing a policy of victors» justice in which they say Gbagbo's allies are prosecuted while alleged crimes committed during the war by Ouattara's backers go unpunished.

«End the war on pot: We welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana» — Daily News Editorial Board: «After many decades of treating as a crime the personal possession and use of a drug that is a negligible threat to public safety, New York is awakening to the folly of — and racial disparities widened by — its approach.

A case could be made that Japanese war crimes in world war 2 were simply extreme cases of the type of crimes committed by almost all sides in almost all wars - massacres of civilians are pretty common.

Recent supports by human rights groups suggest the rebels are guilty of war crimes, including massacres.

Report by Amnesty International «We had no time to bury him: War crimes in Sudan's Blue Nile State» - Lord Alton of Liverpool

Japanese crimes took place in the context of war - they were carried out by soldiers in what was seen as enemy territory.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

But in that case you would first have to prove that war crimes were actually committed by the rebels, accidentally shooting down a civilian planes has never before been considered to be a war crime.

President Al - Bashir was declared wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2009 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur from 2003 to 2008.

Japan has never apologised for this and many other war crimes which are well remembered by its neighbours.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.