Sentence examples for perpetrate atrocities from inspiring English sources

"Your democratically elected government," he told his fellow Britons, "continues to perpetrate atrocities against my people... [We] will not stop".

Although it has occasionally been permissible for outside police action to infringe upon states whose governments perpetrate atrocities against their own people, that criterion has not been consistently applied in international law.

The more child soldiers are forced to perpetrate atrocities, the more they identify with their captors, said Verena Ertl, a clinical psychologist who has researched conflict trauma among children in Uganda.

Characters take part in all-night threesomes, get shot in the Lubyanka, discuss Japanese horror films, witness a crucifixion and a jailhouse castration, perpetrate atrocities during the second world war.

Referring to the central incident in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," and perhaps to many another contemporary horror, she continues: "People perpetrate atrocities and other people say, 'We didn't see it coming.' The idea that people actually wear themselves on their faces seems to me to be less real than what life actually is, which is a series of concealments and containments.

A suicidal person is going to be just as angry, if not more so than any of the slew of murderers who used their victimized status to perpetrate atrocities.

If we refuse to resort to terrorism in order not to target innocent persons, and thus fail to prevent some other persons from perpetrating atrocities, it is only the perpetrators who will be morally responsible for those atrocities.

By now, the region is riven and blood‑soaked, with rebel "oath-takers" decimating villages and perpetrating atrocities.

The idea that Unmiss required permission to patrol from the very authorities that were responsible for perpetrating atrocities against civilians cast doubt on the effectiveness of its mandate.

Meanwhile the government organised a big rally, also in the middle of the capital, at which demonstrators accused Tamil MPs of never having criticised the Tigers for perpetrating atrocities.

For centuries, national leaders acted with impunity, perpetrating atrocities without fear of ever being hauled into court.