#civilians

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The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean cities, the destruction of dams and the resulting devastation of the food supply and an unremitting aerial bombardment more intensive than anything experienced during the Second World War. At one point the Americans gave up bombing targets in the North when their intelligence reported that there were no more buildings over one story high left standing in the entire country … the overall death toll was staggering: possibly as many as four million people. About three million were civilians (one out of every ten Koreans). Even to a world that had just begun to recover from the vast devastation of the Second World War, Korea was a man-made hell with a place among the most violent excesses of the 20th century.


Reg Whitaker


#korean-war #north-korea #death

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.


Rachel Corrie


#please #protecting #shoot #threat #unarmed

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.


Tom Paulin


#boost #civilians #fact #i #i think

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.


Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf


#civilians #control #distort #feelings #hysteria

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.


Jan Egeland


#civilians #commit #control #disarmament #ensure

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.


Barack Obama


#attack #bombs #civilians #combat #continue

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.


Sean Penn


#american soldiers #attack #civilians #innocent #innocent civilians

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.


Joe Slovo


#alone #any #arise #civilians #cliche

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.


Antony Beevor


#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.


Noam Chomsky


#civilians #innocent #innocent civilians #killing #terrorism