Examples of using Were combatants in English and their translations into Russian
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A total of 1,434 Palestinians were killed, of whom 235 were combatants.
Of the total repatriated, more than 8,000 were combatants, of whom more than 4,300 were Rwandan citizens.
According to these figures, at least 60 per cent, andpossibly as many as three out of four, of those killed were combatants.
It will also have to be determined if,at the time of death, they were combatants or non-combatants and when, where and how they were killed or injured.
Witness testimony by members of the convoy revealed that almost all of the individuals,including some of the women, were combatants.
The Mission recognizes that some of those killed were combatants directly engaged in hostilities against Israel, but many were not.
Thus, according to PCHR and Al Mezan, fewer than 17 per cent of the Palestinians killed during the military operations were combatants.
Thirty-six of those 61 were combatants, including 35 from FDLR, while 7 were children associated with armed groups and 18 were dependants.
As a result of the offensive, 1,409 Palestinians were killed, of which 237 were combatants and 1,172 were non-combatants.
Moreover, some asylum-seekers were combatants, which raised security fears, and it was often unclear which individuals were genuine asylum-seekers and which were illegal immigrants.
HRW also reported that the Army has increasingly been carrying out extrajudicial executions of civilians,who they later claim were combatants killed in action.
Al Mezan reports that overall 1,409 persons were killed during the military operations,of whom 237 were combatants(including 13 under-age combatants) and 1,172 non-combatants, including 342 children, 111 women and 136 members of the police.
Civilians lose the protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention when they become combatants by taking a direct part in hostilities(art. 51(3)of Additional Protocol I). Israel contends that the victims of targeted political assassinations were combatants.
Although it is impossible to say with certainty that none of the 926 persons categorized as civilians by PCHR were combatants, it must be borne in mind that Israel classifies policemen as fighters.
On the other hand, the accused in the Kunarac case were combatants who had taken advantage of their positions of authority in the military to rape people whose displacement had been a declared goal of the military campaign in which they had, moreover, participated themselves.
The Panel notes that its previous investigations into the activities of the convoy, including through interviews with the suspects,showed that nearly all of the individuals were combatants from Abidjan, with many having served as hard-line backers of the former Gbagbo regime.
Prior to the imposition of timber sanctions in July 2003, well over 450,000 Liberians were displaced as refugees in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone and beyond, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.An additional 350,000 were internally displaced, and a further estimated 101,000 were combatants of the various warring factions.
Although there is nothing inherently illegal about the use of drones in armed conflict,it is unclear whether all the persons targeted by drones were combatants or were directly participating in hostilities, thus raising questions about compliance with the principle of distinction.
The Government of Israel, on the other hand, has stated that, according to the data gathered by the Research Department of IDF Intelligence,at least 709 were combatants, though this number reportedly includes police officers, who are classified as civilians under international law.
Non-State actors presented a special challenge to the law of armed conflict as they intentionally concealed the fact they were combatants, even though it was a basic rule of such law that, as such, they should clearly distinguish themselves from civilians.
Local authorities believed that the perpetrators might be combatants of FNL.
All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except medical and religious personnel.
Five out of the first ten electoral candidates on its list are combatants,” said Gamurari, the No.12 candidate on electoral list of this party.
According to international humanitarian law,the militia are combatants, who have their rights and who are protected by this right like any other party to this conflict.
Individuals do not become legitimate military objectives unless they are combatants or civilians directly participating in hostilities.
SLIRI data is currently sensitive because most of the victims are combatants and were injured during conflict.
They can also be combatants who, along with their male counterparts, need to be effectively disarmed, demobilized and reintegrated into society.
Some of those who have disappeared may have been combatants who were killed or detained during the fighting.
Second, if individual members of the law-enforcement agency are at the same time members of an armed group,they would be combatants.
The inference that those who did not go to the city centres must be combatants.