Sentence examples for perpetrated war from inspiring English sources

He said his panel believed rebel groups had perpetrated war crimes but not crimes against humanity "because there is not a clear chain of command".

And, to be sure, the I.R.A. is not alone in standing accused of atrocities during the Troubles: loyalist paramilitary groups and British government forces also perpetrated war crimes for which they have not been brought to account.

Does Feldman believe that even if Yoo perpetrated war crimes by helping to establish a policy that led to the torture of detainees, it would be unhelpful, for reasons that Feldman fails to articulate, to oust him from his academic post?

Meron, in an interview with Tanjug, Serbia's official news agency, denied that it was "now virtually impossible to obtain convictions against the commanders and generals whose units perpetrated war crimes unless evidence shows that they issued direct orders to the units to do so".

At least four human rights groups are believed to be compiling suits alleging that Israelis perpetrated war crimes in planning or carrying out the three-week operation Cast Lead.

The commission's latest report (PDF), which will be debated at the next Human Rights Council session on Sept. 17, concluded that the Syrian government, as a matter of state policy, has perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, gross violations of human rights and sexual violence.

A good deal of informed opinion worldwide regards the Anglo-American invasion and conquest of Iraq as an illegal act of aggression, in the course of which it is coalition forces that have perpetrated numerous war crimes while pulverising Iraqi resistance.

Of the 520,000 people living in Transnistria, 350,000 are Moldovan citizens; therefore, we see the final settlement of the conflict as a way to liberate the population from violent control and oppression, perpetrated via cold-war propaganda and isolation.

And I despair of someone such as Galloway who insists (unlike many in the anti-war movement) that the evil perpetrated in America's torture chambers - for example, the disgusting practice of chaining prisoners in dog collars and sexually humiliating them - is equivalent to the evil perpetrated in Saddam's torture chambers where people were literally nailed to walls and crucified.

By applying the word to a [Boston Marathon] bombing with initially unknown perpetrators, and largely declining to use it in connection with a massacre allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist hoping to spark a race war, media failed that test.

Far from unduly aestheticizing his vision of German-perpetrated horrors, Scorsese — in presenting them from the war veteran Daniels's own tangled and submerged perspective and blending the character's intimate drama with that of the world stage — neither sacralizes nor cheapens them.