Sentence examples for was ordered to shoot from inspiring English sources

And instead of confronting armed insurgents, the unit was ordered to shoot protesters.

During the early 1960s, when French authorities required Algerians to have identity cards, a conscript in the French Army, Marc Garanger, was ordered to shoot their portraits.

Sinisterra described how Colon was lured to a meeting by two cartel associates, where he was bound and beaten, before Sinisterra was ordered to shoot him.

When a key I.R.A. bombing instructor was ordered to shoot a police officer whose mother was a widow, he said he felt he "would have to pay for it".

I'd heard stories (my grandmother's uncle was a part of the police force that was ordered to shoot the Dhaka University students, but he refused), read books and seen movies about the movement.

A real-life friend of Folman, he was long haunted by this recurrent dream: he explains to the director that, while a conscript in Lebanon, he was ordered to shoot 26 dogs whose barking might have revealed the Israeli army's presence.

He had been ordered to shoot -- and so he shot.

The police were ordered to shoot directly into the crowd.

They have been ordered to shoot the older students but not the children," Khorasani said.

In that case, would the American military be ordered to shoot them down?

In a bid to restore order, the security forces have been ordered to shoot rioters on sight.