The deliberate killing or maiming of civilians is not justifiable.

Maiming of animals by their owner falls under the Cruelty to Animals Acts.

They are killing and maiming people, particularly civilians, in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

But, today, 600,000 Indian troops are in Kashmir killing, maiming and brutalizing the Kashmiri people.

Innocent civilians, including women and children, are victims of ruthless killings, maiming, torture, forced recruitment and kidnapping.

They are perpetually at war, killing and maiming in spite of peace treaties and cease fire agreements.

We were promised peace, and there is no peace. Arrests are still going on, killing, maiming, wounding.

Armed conflict exposes girls, and women to gender based violence, torture, killing, maiming, abduction and other egregious crimes against humanity.

The manufacture of, trade in and deployment of such weapons, which cause indiscriminate and mindless death and maiming, are unconscionable.

The systematic maiming of deserters, evaders and thieves has reportedly instilled sufficient fear into the population so as to invoke better compliance with conscription orders.

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The security situation had improved, but the Forces nationales de libération (FNL) continued to do harm, operating virtually as a terror organization, maiming and robbing civilians and imposing taxes.

The continuing attacks, closures and oppressive policies of the Israeli occupying forces had resulted in the killing and maiming of thousands of children and the spread of poverty and disease.

It has been said that the indiscriminate maiming of innocent people by land mines left undetonated and unretrieved after a period of civil conflict is an affront to the international conscience.

A total ban would be easier to implement, monitor and verify. It would guarantee more than any other measure that the indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians occurring nowadays would ultimately cease.

It is extremely important that after years of struggle in South Africa, after the loss of thousands of lives and the maiming of thousands more, the results of the first democratic elections not be contested.

As indicated there, a moratorium would be easier to implement, monitor and verify, and it would guarantee more than any other measure that the indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians occurring nowadays would ultimately cease.

Norway is deeply concerned about the continuous reports of the killing and maiming of children, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, as well as rape and other forms of sexual violence against children in conflict situations.

Yet, among all these resolutions and presidential statements, there is no explanation as to how the Council could have countenanced the death and maiming of thousands of people, generally considered genocide by the vast majority of mankind.

Such characteristics mean that, in a mined area, one can never be sure that any step, any attempt to enter a building or to cultivate a field, any activity at all, may not result in death or maiming.

In 1793, for example, John Cornish was found not guilty of maiming a horse after pulling the animal's tongue out the judge ruled that Cornish could be found guilty only if there was evidence of malice toward the owner.

Beyond that, however, there must, in our view, be unequivocal action by the international community to outlaw the production, sale and use of these devices which, by their indiscriminate spreading of death and severe maiming, have no place in civilized society.

Because they remain in the ground long after hostilities have ended, killing and maiming indiscriminately, mines effectively prevent the use of large tracts of land, while imposing a huge burden on families and the health infrastructures of post conflict countries.

3. The Foreign Ministers hold the Belgrade regime and its surrogate in Bosnia and Herzegovina fully responsible for the cold blooded massacre in Gorazde of over 700 innocent civilians, the maiming of more than 2,000 others and the forced displacement of more than 20,000 people.

He then addressed the issue of the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which had been responsible for acts of terrorism against the people of northern Uganda and various atrocities including abduction, maiming, sexual abuse and murder, committed in particular against women and children.

For five years, the Israeli occupation forces had been guilty of systematic war crimes and State terrorism against Arab civilians in those territories, using sophisticated weapons and fighter planes and killing some 4,000 persons, including children, women and elderly people, and maiming tens of thousands more.

The intention is to destroy lives and livelihoods, to instil fear or permanent harm through killing, maiming, summary executions, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, abductions, arbitrary detention and forced displacement and, through the destruction of dwellings and infrastructure, to make sure there is no return.