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It’s obviously right out of the Russian playbook to target civilian infrastructure and to show no regard for avoiding the targeting of civilians. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is not our policy to put fighters in the village because it could bring conflicts to the civilians. – Major General Zaw Min Tun	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words. – Human Rights Watch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military. – Aung Myo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hiring more civilians to free up more police officers with their guns and badges to walk the walk, to talk to people, rebuild trust is the most important. The other important element is investing in communities and investing in violence prevention programs. – Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These are not military facilities ... It is terror, it is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure. there were civilians there, each of whom lived their own life, went about their own business. – Yuriy Sobolevskyi	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
There were civilians there, each of whom lived their own life, went about their own business. – Yuriy Sobolevskyi	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
It appears he’s not going to do that, he’s paying a very heavy price for failing to do it, but he is inflicting incredible, incredible carnage on the civilians of Ukraine, bombing nurseries, hospitals, children’s homes – it’s sick what he’s doing. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, the bodies of both civilians and military personnel are being found, in the Kherson region, the Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where it was able to enter. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Once again, suspected corruption caused casualties among civilians. But this time corruption involved places of worship... We call on the government for an immediate and serious investigation to reveal the truth so corruption doesn't affect mosques and places of worship as it has done with the country's institutions and ministries. – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Such attacks put the lives of innocent Syrian civilians at risk and undermine the significant efforts by our Partner Forces to maintain the lasting defeat of ISIS, coalition personnel retain the right to self-defense, and we will take appropriate measures to protect our forces. – John Brennan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We must be very clear : Nothing we documented Ukrainian forces doing in any way justifies Russian violations, russia alone is responsible for the violations it has committed against Ukrainian civilians. Amnesty's work over the last six months and our multiple briefings and reports on Russia's violations and war crimes reflect their scale and the gravity of their impact on civilians. – Amnesty International	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This horrific assault is yet another apparent example of complete disregard for human life and dignity in Ukraine committed by Russian forces. All those suspected of criminal responsibility must be investigated, since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine, Amnesty International has documented crimes under international law, like summary killings of captives by Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces. – Marie Struthers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine, Amnesty International has documented crimes under international law, like summary killings of captives by Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces. – Marie Struthers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can, we will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it. – David Spergel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Such people have no right to exist, such a nation must be destroyed because they came to kill innocent people, we are not military.We are civilians who lived here and did no harm to anyone. – Vasylchenko Valentyna	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Civilians can not resist brute armed force. – Mikhail Velichko	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Targeting generals is fully lawful, targeting non-combatant civilians is not, Mulroy said. If Russian generals don't want to be targeted, they should withdraw their forces and return to Russia. – Mick Mulroy	added by AnaDay 2 years ago
The killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only leads to a further deterioration of the situation at a time when we all strive to achieve stability and prevent escalation. – Mahmoud Abbas	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is an immense relief that some civilians who have suffered for weeks are now out, the ICRC hasn't forgotten the people who are still there, nor those in other areas affected by the hostilities or those in dire need of humanitarian relief, wherever they are. We will not spare any effort to reach them. – The ICRC	Found on CNN 2 years ago

It’s obviously right out of the Russian playbook to target civilian infrastructure and to show no regard for avoiding the targeting of civilians.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is not our policy to put fighters in the village because it could bring conflicts to the civilians.

– Major General Zaw Min Tun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military.

– Aung Myo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hiring more civilians to free up more police officers with their guns and badges to walk the walk, to talk to people, rebuild trust is the most important. The other important element is investing in communities and investing in violence prevention programs.

– Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are not military facilities ... It is terror, it is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure. there were civilians there, each of whom lived their own life, went about their own business.

– Yuriy Sobolevskyi

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

There were civilians there, each of whom lived their own life, went about their own business.

– Yuriy Sobolevskyi

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

It appears he’s not going to do that, he’s paying a very heavy price for failing to do it, but he is inflicting incredible, incredible carnage on the civilians of Ukraine, bombing nurseries, hospitals, children’s homes – it’s sick what he’s doing.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, the bodies of both civilians and military personnel are being found, in the Kherson region, the Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country, where it was able to enter.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Once again, suspected corruption caused casualties among civilians. But this time corruption involved places of worship... We call on the government for an immediate and serious investigation to reveal the truth so corruption doesn't affect mosques and places of worship as it has done with the country's institutions and ministries.

– Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Such attacks put the lives of innocent Syrian civilians at risk and undermine the significant efforts by our Partner Forces to maintain the lasting defeat of ISIS, coalition personnel retain the right to self-defense, and we will take appropriate measures to protect our forces.

– John Brennan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We must be very clear : Nothing we documented Ukrainian forces doing in any way justifies Russian violations, russia alone is responsible for the violations it has committed against Ukrainian civilians. Amnesty's work over the last six months and our multiple briefings and reports on Russia's violations and war crimes reflect their scale and the gravity of their impact on civilians.

– Amnesty International

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This horrific assault is yet another apparent example of complete disregard for human life and dignity in Ukraine committed by Russian forces. All those suspected of criminal responsibility must be investigated, since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine, Amnesty International has documented crimes under international law, like summary killings of captives by Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.

– Marie Struthers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since the start of Russia's war on Ukraine, Amnesty International has documented crimes under international law, like summary killings of captives by Russia-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine and extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.

– Marie Struthers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can, we will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.

– David Spergel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Such people have no right to exist, such a nation must be destroyed because they came to kill innocent people, we are not military.We are civilians who lived here and did no harm to anyone.

– Vasylchenko Valentyna

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Civilians can not resist brute armed force.

– Mikhail Velichko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Targeting generals is fully lawful, targeting non-combatant civilians is not, Mulroy said. If Russian generals don't want to be targeted, they should withdraw their forces and return to Russia.

– Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

The killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only leads to a further deterioration of the situation at a time when we all strive to achieve stability and prevent escalation.

– Mahmoud Abbas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is an immense relief that some civilians who have suffered for weeks are now out, the ICRC hasn't forgotten the people who are still there, nor those in other areas affected by the hostilities or those in dire need of humanitarian relief, wherever they are. We will not spare any effort to reach them.

– The ICRC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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