Sentence examples for government blockade from inspiring English sources

The PNG government blockade, comparable to that imposed on Saddam Hussein's Iraq, caused immense suffering amongst the civilian population.

Hospitals are systematically targeted, blood banks have been destroyed, and the crisis deepens through a crippling government blockade.

A government blockade eventually brought an end to the war, but not before as many as 2 million people died of starvation in the region.

Local progress on humanitarian relief was reported on Tuesday from the Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya after the relaxation of a government blockade.

Guaidó's comments came after a day of violence, as opposition supporters spent hours trying to break a government blockade and carry food and medical supplies into Venezuela.

With rising rent depleting their savings, and the shop they relied on for income now sealed off behind a government blockade, they accept occasional handouts from neighborhood organizations.

Government blockades have also prevented foreign journalists from reaching Tibetan areas in neighboring provinces.

As many as 6,000 a day starved to death once the federal government blockaded the ever diminishing Republic of Biafra.

The Ahrar statement also noted that important opposition conditions for the start of the political process had still not been realised, including an end to government blockades of opposition-held territory as well as the release of thousands of detainees.

Demonstrators demanded that government blockades around rebel-held areas be lifted and humanitarian aid be delivered to all besieged areas in Syria.

I spoke to Zoong Deh Kwe, one of the Anishnawbe mothers from Toronto, about what brought her out to protest the government, and blockade the train tracks: "The OPP went in there [Belleville Blockade] on International Woman's Day and stopped the warriors from standing up for the women.