Sentence examples for pillage rape from inspiring English sources

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The RUF recruited gangs of dispossessed youths and armed them with AK-47s for their missions of pillage, rape and diamond-heisting.

Dan Ballan Mahaman Sani, a Tuareg activist in the northern Niger town of Azawad, said: "Banditry, pillage, rape – all those things are worse post-Gadaffi.

The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said in a radio interview on Sunday that he was "shocked" that Algeria has been criticized for its response to terrorists who "pillage, rape and ransack".

Congo plunged into chaos in 1996 when Rwanda covertly backed an insurrection; today, large slices remain no-go zones where marauding men pillage, rape and kill with total impunity.

But it wasn't all rape and pillage, rape and pillage.

One reading of the human story emphasizes war, domination, pillage, rape, slavery, colonization and exploitation.

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When taken, they were often sacked by marauding troops who looted, pillage, raped and murdered the civilian population.

As discussed in, Solidarity Against Rape and Pillage, raping pristine stretches of nature and violating women may be different acts but they are both rooted in a similar abuse of power which includes unrestrained exploitation without consent.

The looting, pillaging, raping and killing seem to happen every time a city switches hands.

His warfare of choice during operations he led in the early 2000s, according to the prosecution, was not military confrontation but a sweeping campaign that involved terrorizing villagers, pillaging, raping, killing and using drugged children as his foot soldiers and henchmen.

The rebels under Mr. Lubanga's command were known to have pillaged, raped and killed many civilians in enemy villages, but prosecutors said when he was handed to The Hague in 2006 that the best evidence they had was about child recruiting.

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