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In northern Uganda, many citizens have made it clear they do not want Lord's Resistance Army combatants to be prosecuted.
He was one of the first enemy combatants to be tried in the controversial military-tribunal system first authorised by George Bush in 2001.
In recent decades, humanitarian groups have successfully campaigned for juvenile combatants to be considered not primarily as the perpetrators of violence but as casualties themselves.
Human Rights Watch called for the detainees to be transferred to US federal courts and for the concept of suspects being treated as enemy combatants to be abandoned.
Since then, there has been a national debate over whether people accused of terrorism should be treated as criminals and tried in the federal courts, or held as enemy combatants to be tried, if at all, before military tribunals, where defendants have fewer rights and there is less public disclosure.
Holder's statement comes at a time when people like Rudy Giuliani are talking about treating American citizens apprehended in America as enemy combatants, to be tried (if that is even the right term) by the military, and Joe Lieberman thinks people should be stripped of their citizenship on ominous-sounding but essentially vague grounds.
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He thus represents the first nonregime combatant to be targeted by the ICC.
The hamfisted New York bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was to Trump not just guilty before trial but a "foreign enemy combatant", to be detained indefinitely until the end of hostilities.
As soon as a peace accord is reached in Somalia, there will be 70,000 to 80,000 ex-combatants to be reintegrated into civilian society [ 42].
Thousands of pro- and anti-Syrian combatants appeared to be determined to reduce Lebanon's second largest city to rubble and displace its inhabitants.
Thus, the final shared trait between the combatants appears to be poise, as both are adamant that they're ready to go, and ready to finish.
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