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civilians
1. “The instructors were made up mostly of police officers and veterans, but we were only civilians
2. "The movement never cared about innocent civilians in their own population," Diam scowled
3. There was usually a list of important souls who were only on backup, and a count of all the civilians who existed on backup only
4. If this were a story about a fantastic hero, then Matt would don his perfect mask and perfect cape, run out the door in a flash and announce, ‘step back, innocent civilians! I shall now save the day!’, and then Matt would save the world from certain doom in a most perfect way and be rewarded with millions of dollars and a pool filled with drop-dead perfect gorgeous women, and then go back home to his perfect private tropical island where nothing bad ever happened, except for when it was a chance for Matt to prove how awesome he was and just plain better than everyone else
5. But is that what you want to do, murder thousands of innocent civilians?”
6. The mutter of civilians
7. hour, jobs that civilians would make maybe $20 or $25 and hour
8. overcoming the enemy strongholds and freeing the civilians of
9. He saw a few soldiers walking around and one or two civilians but on the whole, the place seemed remarkably empty
10. Once again it struck Nate that there were next to no civilians present
11. In the army, it had nearly always involved a death – the recovery was that of fallen warriors or sometimes civilians
12. Fighting civilians looks bad and I doubt the people on Earth will tolerate it
13. “Once they gain entry to the station, the civilians won’t know what hit them
14. It was different being in the army and especially being in a Pals Battalion because we were special and a race apart from civilians like these stood at the bar
15. But then I thought about the other civilians I had met we were no longer the same if they asked you about the war you couldn’t talk to them and explain because you would be wasting your time they were only bothered about their own ideas of it
16. As we travelled along more and more soldiers boarded until we nearly filled the tram the civilians who were on board whished us well and god speed as the got off at their respective stops
17. He had heard tales of the mad Alit’aren believing that innocent civilians were Darkservants, or that Souljhin and other demons were waiting amongst the shadows when the sane men were certain there was nothing there
18. One who risks his life in attacking armed troops of the reigning administration to which they are, justly or unjustly, opposed, and not to be confused with a terrorist, who murders innocent civilians, including unarmed men, women, and children, in a supposedly just cause
19. They point out that civilians were attacked and confrontation with the Security Forces mostly avoided
20. The barricaded ones wanted to see the sergeant, which was not a strange request as most civilians respected the sergeant much more than any commissioned officer
21. The sufferings of the army, though, were as nothing compared to the privations endured by the unfortunate civilians and non-combatants from Santiago
22. Later on we needed the experienced policemen on the mean streets and civilians were appointed to answer the 10111 telephones but that was a mistake in my eyes
23. This means that if they were civilians, they would not pass the firearm competency test and they would be forbidden to carry firearms
24. We were standing around and telling the crowd in a (really, no jokes) calm and measured voice to be like rokkof it was also rough for the civilians were panicking
25. Not all civilians are long haired liberals you know
26. of three thousand American civilians, its ―Man of the Year
27. Some even say that My Lai was not an isolated incident but (almost) the norm where civilians were killed at will
28. Both aircraft were Vickers Viscounts and had no chance whatsoever against Strela's with only civilians on board
29. It will not stop a determined terrorist and many of the landmines were dug out and used against the Security Forces and civilians
30. Thus the need for torture of civilians was not great and I am disinclined to believe it
31. It is known that they attacked on more than one occasion MK safe houses outside the borders in neighbouring countries and as with all such actions civilians died in the crossfire
32. There was never genuine insurgency type terrorism in South Africa except for a few landmines next to Zimbabwe in 1985 which killed innocent civilians
33. Indonesia's military carried out all of the killings in East Timor, nearly all civilians, as well as rapes, torture, and forcible relocation that caused mass starvation
34. But you know the problem is that the terrorist attack is always directed at civilians who are very vulnerable to it
35. (Some argue that as a general he was not blameless when it came to atrocities against Mexican civilians
36. Many soldiers and some Polish civilians were loitering around and were there primarily to loot
37. 4 million deaths, almost all civilians
38. Many Filipino rebels and civilians were also tortured, including the first time US troops used water boarding against an enemy
39. Military rule of the island passed to US civilians
40. Winston Churchill began ordering the carpet bombing of German civilians before the US entered the war, by over a year and a half
41. Initially both Britain and Germany agreed to avoid targeting civilians
42. Churchill did not change his mind because of either the Battle of Britain and German targeting of British civilians, nor because of German targeting of fleeing refugees in countries like Poland and France
43. Thus Churchill ordered the targeting of German civilians as a war tactic, not a response to human rights violations
44. Atrocities in the Pacific Theater by US troops were widespread; execution of POWs; mutilation of enemy dead; massacres of civilians; even the collection of enemy body parts as trophies
45. In such an atmosphere, where many Americans even called for genocide, the murder of every last Japanese as revenge for Pearl Harbor, it is appalling but not surprising there were few objections to targeting Japanese civilians
46. When Italian fascists used aerial bombing and nerve gas against Ethiopian civilians, Roosevelt again spoke out against the offenders in thunderous tones
47. When Hitler's troops attacked Polish and other civilians early in the war, Roosevelt said:
48. Both FDR and Churchill called on Hitler to cease attacks on civilians
49. At the same time, General James Doolittle, famed for his early raids, opposed targeting civilians as, “Terrorism, without any justification on military grounds
50. Yet the bombing of civilians were not much of a public issue until author Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five described the firestorms in Dresden he survived while a POW