Sentence examples for mass punishment from inspiring English sources

Through an iniquitous mass punishment, you mobilise the anger and grievance on which terrorist organisations thrive.

But mass punishment of locals could tip the scale to the other side quite easily.

The paramilitaries have long been blamed for many of Colombia's worst atrocities, in particular for mass "punishment" killings of villagers held to be sympathetic to the guerrillas.

In addition, Maher is accused of ordering the indiscriminate mass punishment of the entire male population of a troublesome town, al-Moudamya, last year.

This oft repeated process was so destructive of all respect for legal authority that Albany decided in 1967 to substi tute the Taylor Law, shifting the emphasis from mass punishment to the establishment of peace procedures.

But Mr. Shanshal said Mr. Maliki was using the accusation of criminal activity in Sadr City as a pretext for "mass punishment" intended to discourage Mr. Sadr's supporters from participating in the provincial elections.

Rights groups say Egypt is handing out mass punishments indiscriminately.

Here the diatribes, the mass punishments and public humiliations happened.

Prosecution Arguments: Accused ordered mass punishments for offenses getting in fights, possession of cigarette lighter, cutting an issued blanket to make socks) committed by identified individual PWs; accused took an active part in these mass punishments as well.

The report also said that security forces were increasingly employing mass punishments -- rounding up large numbers of people for arrest and questioning, including 3,000 people detained after the October bombing attack on a Red Sea resort in the Sinai.

Although the labor market consequences of incarceration in prison have been central to the literature on mass incarceration, punishment, and inequality, other components of the growing criminal justice system have received less attention from sociologists.