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Defining "state terrorism as _systematic state violence against civilians in violation of international norms, state edicts, and precedents established by international courts designed to protect the rights of civilians_" emphasis original, p.

Book Review: Selden and So, eds., _War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century_. Michael Turton 2005

Harming enemy civilians is a means to the end of winning the war in both direct ways (killing civilian workers who support the enemy war effort – weapons factories, etc.) and indirect ones (demoralizing the enemy).

One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009

The concept of patriotism here in the US amongst the civilians is a dying concept.

Think Progress » DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. Superior Court 2010

Well, I mean, the alternative, as Representative Jan Schakowsky has said, is to not use these companies, to ban their use in the war zone and to scale down the scope of what you classify as civilians or diplomats in Iraq.

Democracy Now! 2009

The only way you or anyone else, even supposed legal scholars, can say terrorists are civilians is if you magically change the meaning of what a civilian is in the Convention itself, as if it were a “living” document.

Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil 2010

The only way you or anyone else, even supposed legal scholars, can say terrorists are civilians is if you magically change the meaning of what a civilian is in the Convention itself, as if it were a “living” document.

Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil 2010

Jody Williams (Peace Prize, 1997): "Williams has spent decades working to protect civilians from the long-term effects of war and might be equally passionate on behalf of new veterans who have lost limbs or suffered traumatic brain injury."

What if Nobel Prize winners ran the country? Ed O 2010

This was at least in part a war against civilians from the beginning, to punish them for their choice of government.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

That is why the Sudan Liberation Movement is moving to protect the civilians from the Sudanese forces.

Rebel Urges U.N. Delegation to Investigate Renewed Attacks on Darfur 2010

Trying them as civilians is just foolhardy and politically stupid. especially since we've already decided we won't just release them if aquitted.

Discourse.net: Constitution to Remain Suspended -- Official 2010