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innocent

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“Second, the government is perpetrating extreme violence against peaceful and innocent American civilians in order to provoke a reaction that the government then uses as an after-the-fact justification for the violence it has already used.”

The church has said Han is innocent and the victim of religious persecution.

The filing said Mr Hayes was taking legal action in a bid to "deter and punish UBS for its role in intentionally directing the destruction of an innocent man's life for their own selfish reasons".

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Audiences rooted for him to convince Tommy Lee Jones that he really was an innocent man: “I didn’t kill my wife.”

Despite RSF assurances of civilian protection, the local resistance committee accused the group of committing atrocities, saying that since Sunday, innocent civilians had suffered "the worst forms of violence and ethnic cleansing."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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