Sentence examples for Armed combatants from inspiring English sources
Armed combatants may perpetrate GBV that is related to conflict but GBV experiences by these survivors appeared to occur across conflict and displacement and is perpetrated by a range of actors.
Other civilians may join the rebels at certain stages, becoming armed combatants, and then decide to return home for whatever reason, thus transitioning back to civilian non-combatants".
VERY few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants.
Since the Israeli Army assassination of a Palestinian militia leader on Thursday and the retaliatory shootings of Israeli soldiers on Friday, the conflict has appeared to shift from one of mass Palestinian protests at Israeli military posts to long-distance attacks by heavily armed combatants.
"Let me remind you, journalists are not armed combatants," Jordon said.
They are certainly something different than pure, innocent civilians, and perhaps they are also somewhat different from pure armed combatants.
The United Nations Human Rights Council, among other institutions, investigated several of the cases and found the Philippine military primarily responsible for the actions, attributing them to a counterinsurgency policy called Oplan Bantay Laya, or Operation Freedom Watch, that does not distinguish armed communist combatants from activists who are out in the open.
Yet it is the reckless United States policy of arming combatants around the world without regard for regional stability or citizen security that has contributed to the depth and intensity of these conflicts.
In a scene reminiscent of the violence last year in East Timor, the local military appears to have run out of control, arming civilian combatants and, according to witnesses, sometimes leading the attacks.
Not only do we create a market, we also provide the guns to arm the combatants on both sides of the battle.
The Rules of Engagement and the Law of Armed Combat do not permit combatants to shoot at people who are surrendering or who no longer pose a threat because of their injuries.
