In some ways they are seen as civilian victims of war, almost like veterans.
Mr Silvester said islanders deserve better than what they have at the moment to remember the victims of war.
JAJCE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- Hundreds of mass graves containing the butchered victims of war dot the once-picturesque hills of Bosnia.
NGOs are taking over directly from diplomats: not attempting to help the victims of war, but to end the wars themselves.
Even if we multiplied that rate to account for unrecorded deaths and the victims of war-caused disease and famine, it would not exceed 1%.
Nich Woolf, 58, worked with the charity founded by former ITN newsreader Sandy Gall, which provides medical assistance and rehabilitation for victims of war.
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"For too long, they have been the forgotten victims of war, responsible for none of the blame but bearing the worst of the pain, " she said.
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He worked harder than anyone I'd ever met, spending fourteen hours a day defending Haitian refugees and Muslim political detainees and the victims of war and empire.
And so religious volunteers, like al-Sudani, who regard a respectful burial of these victims of war as a crucial calling, have come forth to give the dead a proper resting place.
The medal, named after the pioneer of nursing, is presented every two years and honours "exceptional courage and devotion" to wounded, sick or disabled people or to civilian victims of war or a natural disaster.
In short remarks to the crowd after the game, the Secretary-General praised the undying spirit of victims of war crimes and reaffirmed the commitment of the United Nations to a robust system of international justice.
While I was used to working with people who became victims of war and were forced to leave their homes over the past few months, I was not prepared for what I saw on 10 May.
The BBC's Mark Doyle in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, says traditional chiefs and victims of the war watching the proceedings by video link breathed a sigh of relief when the verdict was read out.
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"Turtles Can Fly" is a cry of anguish for the youngest victims of every war.
They're not wounded by bullets or bombs, but they're the victims of this war nevertheless.
But the myth that the Boers were the sole victims of the war is now being challenged.
At Gulu hospital, malnourished babies wait down the hall from amputees, all victims of the war, all waiting for treatment.
Now the Limbless Association, a UK-based support charity, has set up a fund to help victims of the war in Iraq.
Al-Najada has already treated five other young victims of the war.
Archaeologists are excavating a graveyard in North Ayrshire in a bid to determine whether victims of a war-time sea tragedy are buried in a mass grave.
She listened to America's victims of the Vietnam war, both traumatised veterans and rueful ex-protesters.
Roma groups want international support for these people, whom they call the forgotten victims of the Kosovo war.
Like all the Farc delegates at the talks in Cuba, Ms Nijmeijer portrays the guerrillas as victims of a murky war, not aggressors.
In 2012, he received an additional 50-year sentence for the kidnapping of babies, taken from victims of the Dirty War to be adopted by government backers.
In a televised address read by Information Minister Mohamed Said Sahaf, the Iraqi leader said both Iraq and Kuwait had been victims of the Gulf War in 1991.
Mr Sicilia has called for the "Tower of Light", an existing monument built for the bicentennial of Mexico's independence, to be turned into a "Tower of Peace", in memory of the victims of the drug war.
The book also reveals the amazing humanitarian efforts of the doctors and the tragedy of the victims on both sides of the war.
That chiefly took place in occupied Poland, and the largest number of its victims were citizens of the pre-war republic.
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