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".

But states engaged in combat do not have the right to perpetrate atrocities; nor does the cruelty of armed opponents absolve states of their responsibility to protect citizens.

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.

It is ironic that a Syrian perpetrator of war crimes traveling to Europe is more likely to be prosecuted than a Westerner who traveled to Syria to perpetrate atrocities returning home.

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.

Dinkas and Nuers are accused of perpetrating atrocities against each other.

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.

Both sides in the bitter conflict have been accused of perpetrating atrocities, the BBC's Karen Allen in South Africa reports.