Sentence examples for committed in the war from inspiring English sources

Washington's voice on this issue is sadly diminished by its failure to charge any senior U.S. official for torture or other offenses committed in the "war on terror".

Its declared subject is the killing of a Republican Spanish family, though it could recall many murders committed in the war years.

The viewer's "own moral inadequacy may now shock him as much as the crimes being committed in the war," Mr. Berger writes.

Ban hailed the dead aid workers as heroes and said "those who bombed them were cowards," before calling for accountability for crimes committed in the war.

Just to get food for my children, to send them to school," says Kadiatu Fofana, who lives with a constant reminder of the atrocities committed in the war.

So while the UN summit theoretically presents a rare opportunity to address grave human rights violations committed in the "war on drugs", the US has stood by while a handful of hardline nations push human rights issues to the margins.

The letter from the judge, Frederik Harhoff of Denmark, raised serious questions about the credibility of the court, which was created in 1993 to address the atrocities committed in the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

The ICTY was given broad jurisdiction, which allowed the court to take up all major atrocities committed in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

Although the fighting in the region ended in 1995, the shadows of atrocities which were committed in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia – that took up to 150,000 lives, mostly of non-Serbs – have prevented reconciliation, even though the country is in the hands of a generation of leaders who did not take part in the war.

He thinks that while the slaughter in Rwanda was a case of true genocide, the atrocities committed in the Yugoslavia war are best treated as crimes against humanity and war crimes, to avoid muddying the waters and setting bad precedents for future prosecutions.

The tribunal has indicted 70 people for crimes committed in the Bosnian war.