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The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal [9] killing of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War. [11] The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of ...
Trial in absentia. Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present at those proceedings. In absentia is Latin for "in (the) absence". Its meaning varies by jurisdiction and legal system. In common law legal systems, the phrase is more than a spatial description.
Qisas or Qiṣāṣ ( Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized : Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [1] [2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice. Qisas and diyya are two of several forms of punishment in classical/traditional Islamic criminal ...
Sabotage. Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a saboteur.
1948 Arab–Israeli War. Between 10 and 70 massacres occurred during the 1948 war. [23] [24] According to Benny Morris the Yishuv (or later Israeli) soldiers killed roughly 800 Arab civilians and prisoners of war in 24 massacres. [23] Aryeh Yizthaki lists 10 major massacres with more than 50 victims each. [25]
Ruse de guerre. The French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war, is a non-uniform term; generally what is understood by "ruse of war" can be separated into two groups. The first classifies the phrase purely as an act of military deception against one's opponent; the second emphasizes acts against one's opponent by ...
The Battle of Karbala ( Arabic: مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء, romanized : maʿraka Karbalāʾ) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I ( r. 680–683) and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ...
t. e. Fasād ( Arabic: فساد [fasaːd]) is an Arabic word meaning rottenness, corruption, or depravity. [1] In an Islamic context it can refer to spreading corruption on Earth or spreading mischief in a Muslim land, [2] moral corruption against God, [3] or disturbance of the public peace. [4]