The ultimate desertion

I call this a desertion of duty!

These poor lads here have chosen me captain after your desertion, sir.

5.7 The complainant defends the credibility of his claims about his uncle's desertion and disappearance.

It was a vote of misery and desertion, an impulse moved by panic as well as anger.

Duty, nationalism, loyalty to their comrades, and fear of being shot for desertion all played a role.

Russian President Vladimir Putin may be the only one who welcomes this desertion from Europe s community of values.

Through the next month his original force of 450 was depleted by desertion until it was no longer a fighting force.

In order to obtain maintenance, a wife must first obtain a criminal conviction against her husband for desertion and failure to maintain.

By the spring of 1915, the army was in steady retreat, which was not always orderly desertion, plunder and chaotic flight were not uncommon.

Reportedly, he ordered his guards to execute the only unit that had not deserted him after one battle, to prevent their desertion in the next.

49. The punishments prescribed by Decree No. 93 are additional to previously prescribed punishments of imprisonment or death for desertion or evasion of military service.

The Special Rapporteur was nevertheless informed about the conscription of men aged 19 to 39, with no exemptions, which partly accounted for an alleged desertion rate of 30 per cent.

It was particularly critical of the implausible circumstances attending his uncle's desertion and the falsification of an EZLN card, there being no evidence that the movement issues identity cards to its members.

The French vote mainly expressed a rejection of our ruling class and deep anxiety about our economic prospects. It was a vote of misery and desertion, an impulse moved by panic as well as anger.

First, despite high desertion rates, the death of three of their seven leaders, and Chávez s apparent decision to forsake them (at least for now), the FARC have proved remarkably resilient over the past 40 years.

Moreover, since his desertion, two telegrams from the Ministry of Defence have arrived at the complainant's home in Abadia, demanding that he report immediately to Air Force headquarters in Cheraga in connection with a matter concerning him .

It is important to note that, although the complainant maintains that punishment in the event of desertion may in extreme cases extend to the death penalty, he does not claim that he himself would incur that penalty.

that the complainant claims that he was subjected to torture and, several times, to attempted murder on account of his desertion from the national army because of his opposition to the operations to maintain order directed against the civilian population

As to the future, counsel submits that the possible charges against the complainant, aggravated by the facts of his desertion and flight to France, made the danger of torture, by the Algerian military security in particular, sufficiently substantial to be taken into consideration.

The State party considers that the danger of imprisonment and other criminal penalties for desertion does not in itself establish a violation of article 3 of the Convention since these are the legal punishments for an ordinary offence in the estimation of most States parties to the Convention.

In all cases, the husband is required to provide maintenance for a wife who resides with him or who is separated from him for any reason through no fault of her own, as well as during annulment, desertion or dissolution proceedings. She is under no obligation to make any refund should it be established that she is at fault.