Sentence examples similar to state atrocity from inspiring English sources

The final section of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" turns to Occupy Wall Street, which Hedges takes for the first tremors of a revolutionary uprising against the long history of corporate and state atrocities described in his book.

I had spent the previous week travelling across the country with the NGO Justice for Colombia, and the idea was for me to meet the attorney general's office and talk about the things I'd observed – the political prisoners I'd heard about, the state atrocities, the unsolved executions.

The Kent State atrocities and the Chicago Police Riot both occurred in this decade.

But his arguments are identical to the ones he and Madison had deployed against the two-senators-per-state atrocity.

The United States government called the state-sponsored atrocities a genocide.

Suu Kyi, who skipped the U.N. General Assembly this month, has also dismissed mounting allegations of state-sponsored atrocities against Rohingyas as "misinformation".

The 1998 Rome treaty establishing the International Criminal Court removed head-of-state immunity for atrocity crimes.

A frustrated petitioner arguing her own case before the judge blasts the state for its atrocities and double standards.

The film explores the complicity of the German people in the crimes committed by the state, including the atrocities of the Holocaust.

They state that "mass atrocities continue to occur [in the region] with no external witnesses" as the joint peace-keeping mission of the United Nations and African Union has been "hammered" into silence by the Sudanese government.

The vote followed a report published in February by the UN's commission of inquiry into human rights in North Korea, which described the state's "unspeakable atrocities" against its own citizens.