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The plight of the Roma is not just a short-term security problem that can be addressed by draconian measures to move people forcibly from one member state to another.
I once interviewed three former Russian dissidents who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and forcibly treated.
Some countries – Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine – each accounted for more than a half-million forcibly displaced people at the end of 2014.
The UN estimates that there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, and that more refugees live in formal and informal encampments than ever before.
Today, creative thinking is needed to mitigate the plight of those who have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
In Syria alone, 11 million people have been forcibly displaced within and outside the country.
A less partisan intervention – pouring in troops and airpower to separate the warring parties forcibly – also has no takers, no likely UN authority, and only marginal hope of causing less harm than it would be intended to avoid.
Equally dramatic would be any attempt by the Kurds to forcibly change the demographic balance of the multiethnic city of Kirkuk.
In another example, Pastor Omot Agwa was hired as a local interpreter to assist the World Bank’s independent complaint body in an investigation of allegations that the government was using World Bank funds to evict indigenous peoples forcibly from their traditional lands.
Obama’s recent wavering on the use of force in Syria has left many in Asia doubting whether they can rely on America not only if China forcibly asserts its maritime claims, but also if North Korea carries out its threats to attack the South.
Those crimes have caused more than 300,000 deaths, and have forcibly displaced at least another 2.7 million people.
In this respect, Scotland differs from Wales, which was forcibly incorporated into England more than 400 years before the Scots signed the voluntary Act of Union in 1707.
Those who forcibly displace civilians in violation of international law must be held accountable in order to deter others in the future.
For the sake of all of us, Europe must continue to speak out – even more forcibly than it has in the past.
Women and girls need protection from sexual violence, which flares up when families are forcibly displaced.
Most interestingly of all, perhaps, Germany was forcibly reminded that no solution is possible in the EU without negotiation with the other member countries.
The French junior Human Rights Minister, Rama Yade, declared that the United Nations’ principle of the “responsibility to protect” should be applied to Burma, forcibly if necessary.
A million people lost their lives in the savagery of the subcontinent’s partition into India and Pakistan, and 13 million more were displaced, most forcibly.
More than three thousand people were murdered or “disappeared” during Pinochet’s rule, thousands more were tortured by his forces, and tens of thousands were forcibly exiled.
Faces of the royal family are seen everywhere; the faces of women are shrouded, forcibly hidden.
So, regardless of what European leaders decide at their latest summit, it is past time for the international community to act in support of the world’s refugees and others who have been forcibly displaced.
Palestine will then be an Islamist state in which moderates would be shot and the old nationalist leadership forcibly retired or jailed for corruption.
At the time, the war in Bosnia was already more than a year old; the city of Sarajevo was under siege; tens of thousands of civilian noncombatants had already died; and hundreds of thousands had been forcibly displaced.
China’s declared policy of “noninterference in domestic affairs” actually serves as a virtual license to pursue dam projects that flood lands and forcibly uproot people – including, as with Myitsone, ethnic minorities – in other countries.
So, by official count alone, 1,035 citizens on average have been forcibly evicted for water projects every day for more than six decades.
The Assad regime’s indiscriminate attacks have forcibly displaced, injured, or killed millions of noncombatants.
The UN High Commission on Refugees reports that natural disasters have displaced more than 26 million people per year since 2008 – almost a third of the total number of forcibly displaced people in this time period.
The inability of the official Dutch report to clearly accept responsibility for the failures of the Dutch Battalion underlines once more the bankruptcy of so many UN peacekeeping operations: they have no mandate to stop aggression forcibly, and they are supposed to be neutral.
Most of Asia’s important international rivers originate in territories that were forcibly annexed to the People’s Republic of China.
It has been 150 years since the "black ships" of America's Navy forcibly opened up Japan.
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