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In theory, mines could be replaced by manually triggered Claymore mines, but this requires the posting of a sentry and makes this much more expensive than using other indiscriminate weapons such as cluster bombs or artillery bombardment.
Moreover, unlike massive, indiscriminate artillery strikes, small aerial bombs wouldn't render ground untrafficable, slowing attacking friendly forces.
The huge garrison, about four times larger than the civilian population, strongly disrupted civilian life and the town was occasionally shelled as a result of indiscriminate Soviet artillery training.

indiscriminate and fire
* On May 30, 2012, seven CRPF jawans were injured when motor-cycle borne militants opened indiscriminate fire on them in Khanyar, Srinagar.
Some human rights activists claim that at least 80 % of the hostages were killed by indiscriminate Russian fire.

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And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.
Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: " contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.
It was not until 1942 that the Germans started to develop bombing policy in which civilians were the primary target, although The Blitz on London and many other British cities involved indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas.
This would not be forgotten or forgiven ; the first battle which broke out at Uwereka in September 1905 under the Governorship of Count Gustav Adolf von Götzen turned instantly into an all-out war with indiscriminate murders and massacres perpetrated by all sides against farmers, settlers, missionaries, planters, villages, indigenous people and peasants.
As far as his intellectual gifts were concerned, he had a wonderful memory, which, if supplemented by other talents in like proportion, would have made him a marvel, but he lacked swiftness of apprehension and deep insight, so that his masses of arguments and citations were indiscriminate, and he was filled with an inconceivable impudence though he had the cleverness to conceal it.
This massive movement was stimulated by physical insecurity, indiscriminate plunder, religious persecution, and political discrimination directed by Islam at Christian communities in the area which was once the Christian Orient, or the Byzantine Orthodox Middle East.
" The plan to bring back the cheetah, which fell to indiscriminate hunting and complex factors like a fragile breeding pattern is audacious given the problems besetting tiger conservation.
The initially poorly trained Salvadoran Armed Forces ( ESAF ) also engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings, the most notorious of which was the El Mozote massacre in December 1981.
Zumalacárregui, however, had signed the Lord Eliot Convention, which aimed to end the indiscriminate executions by firing squad of prisoners of both sides.
Will Self has described Celine's work as an " invective, which – despite the reputation he would later earn as a rabid antisemite – is aimed against all classes and races of people with indiscriminate abandon ".
He Jin's stunned guards, led by Yuan Shao, respond by charging into the palace to kill all eunuchs for revenge, which turns into indiscriminate slaughter.
However, Curzon did state " any government which imperiled the financial position of India in the interests of prodigal philanthropy would be open to serious criticism ; but any government which by indiscriminate alms-giving weakened the fibre and demoralized the self-reliance of the population, would be guilty of a public crime.
" Major-General Boyd, the officer commanding Dublin District, added that in his opinion, " the firing on the crowd was carried out without orders, was indiscriminate, and unjustifiable, with the exception of any shooting which took place inside the enclosure.
After throwing out a bill which proposed to raise the necessary funds by fees from a general system of parochial registration, they came to the conclusion that the indiscriminate admission should be discontinued.
For such a predatory bird, the indiscriminate use of pesticides ( which will accumulate in adult carnivores and inhibit breeding success ) around the 1960s probably had a detrimental influence on stocks too.
Nevertheless, the victims of the tragedy are often included in accounting the deaths attributable to the Anfal campaign, which was characterised by the widespread and indiscriminate use of chemical weapons by Iraq.
These allies became impatient and began indiscriminate raids on frontier families and settlements, which had the effect of increasing rather than reducing local support to the American rebels.
A short period in the first week of the war is known as the " One Week Battle " or the " One Week War ", in which most civilian casualties are accrued by the indiscriminate use of WMDs and surprise attacks.
His indiscriminate use of power opens a fissure in the ground which is filled with magma.
" In the month that followed the attacks, when New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani refused to cash a $ 10 million check written by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in light of the Prince's suggestion that the attacks were an indication that the United States " should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause ," McKinney published an open letter to the Saudi Prince, in which she wrote of her disappointment at Giuliani's action and stated, " Let me say that there are a growing number of people in the United States who recognize, like you, that U. S. policy in the Middle East needs serious examination ... Your Royal Highness, many of us here in the United States have long been concerned about reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury to the security forces or to others.
) He argued for the new approach on the basis of the huge increase in the size of the bomber force, which would carry out not just precision bombing but also indiscriminate area bombing by night of all German cities with populations exceeding 100, 000.
Some are fairly indiscriminate about the DNA sequence at which they cut, while others, including restriction enzymes, are very sequence-specific.
Between January and March 2011 Cali saw 448 homicides, which is considered a 15 % increase from 2010. it is suspected that the fighting between the two criminal groups is responsible for at least 80 of these murders, and commentators are concerned because it appears that the violence is indiscriminate and often directed towards civilians.

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With corruption scandals, an economy in tatters, rumors of a right-wing coup and a civil war that did not appear to have a solution, the government became ineffective, unstable and unable to stop the indiscriminate violence and brutality.
However, land development minister, Datuk Seri James Masing claimed that similar incidents did happen before and he blamed the disaster on indiscriminate logging by irresponsible logging companies.
The Court did, however, strike down the provision in Virginia's statute which stated " Any such burning of a cross shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to intimidate a person or group of persons ," holding that the provision was facially unconstitutional because of its " indiscriminate coverage.

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It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.
Tyree shares much of Skip Wiley's passionate environmentalism and anger at corruption, though not his indiscriminate murderousness.
For two years he boarded with Hunt, in whose library he spent much of his time, reading with a keen and indiscriminate appetite.
This has also contributed to their decline however, as they were much affected by indiscriminate pesticide spraying in the mid-late 20th century, leading to their disappearance from many regions they used to inhabit.

indiscriminate and damage
This assistance culminates in their protection of Centauri supply lines during an assault by the Narn, enabling the Centauri to directly attack the Narn homeworld in a devastating assault using mass drivers ( a method deemed appalling by most other races due to its use causing indiscriminate civilian casualties and severe damage to a planet's biosphere ), leading to the surrender of the Narn soon thereafter.
" A judge is not free, like a loose cannon ," he wrote, " to inflict indiscriminate damage whenever he announces that he is acting in his judicial capacity.

indiscriminate and turned
" Although the massacres were aimed mainly at the Armenians, they turned into indiscriminate anti-Christian pogroms in some cases such as in the Massacres of Diyarbakir.
Centuries ago, the Mellor became infected by some mysterious force that turned them to a path of indiscriminate genocide.

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However, he ended his financial support for the group over his perception of its increasing radicalization, specifically a passage in a Panther pamphlet put out by Eldridge Cleaver advocating indiscriminate violence, " for the Revolution.
According to Brownfield, the Loyalists attacked, carrying out " indiscriminate carnage never surpassed by the most ruthless atrocities of the most barbarous savages ".
I believe Negroes should have the right indiscriminate use of the ballot, and in Mississippi too — when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state.
The word " trawling " has come to be used in a number of non-fishing contexts, usually meaning indiscriminate collection with the intent of picking out the useful bits.
According to Brownfield, the loyalists attacked, carrying out " indiscriminate carnage never surpassed by the most ruthless atrocities of the most barbarous savages.
As the international media and human rights observers were kept out of Punjab, indiscriminate arrests, tortures and killings by the police left an estimated 10, 000 civilians dead, and hundreds more of the visible minority Sikhs disappeared or detained without charges or trial.
According to the Patriot surgeon Brownfield, whose account was written many years after the war, the Loyalists attacked, carrying out " indiscriminate carnage never surpassed by the most ruthless atrocities of the most barbarous savages ".
Blanchette ( 1892 ) pointed out the civic results of education of girls of the working classes ; Monsieur de Réboval ( 1892 ) was directed against pharisaism ; L ' Engrenage ( 1894 ) against corruption in politics ; Les Bienfaiteurs ( 1896 ) against the frivolity of fashionable charity ; and L ' Évasion ( 1896 ) satirized an indiscriminate belief in the doctrine of heredity.
Users who visit pages with these types links while an indiscriminate link prefetcher is employed might find that they are logged out or their files have been deleted.
He is sometimes called the rector, or governor, of the church: but the appellation of parson, ( however it may be depreciated by familiar, clownish, and indiscriminate use ) is the most legal, most beneficial, and most honorable title that a parish priest can enjoy ; because such a one, ( Sir Edward Coke observes ) and he only, is said vicem seu personam ecclesiae gerere (" to carry out the business of the church in person ")
Operation Restore Order, while purporting to target illegal dwellings and structures and to clamp down on alleged illicit activities, was carried out in an indiscriminate and unjustified manner, with indifference to human suffering, and, in repeated cases, with disregard to several provisions of national and international legal frameworks.
In the years after World War II, some observers feared that the breed was dying out because of indiscriminate crossing with other breeds.

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