Informers

The state used to employ "informers" - in pursuit of its security; today it may have to contend with "informers" - inside it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The other 20 percent are "informers" - people who were actually sharing information. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gang, which wore soccer shirts in the ANC's gold, green and black colours, terrorised those condemned as enemies or "informers" - a dreadful accusation at the time, which usually brought with it a death sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

De Kock said the housing of the informers was a cover for the true operations of Vlakplaas, which was to curb terrorism and where necessary kill liberation fighters. ❋ Unknown (1999)

It also found the PAC was responsible for killing members within the country who were opposed to its policies, as well as those identified as informers and spies. ❋ Unknown (1998)

It also found the PAC was responsible for killing members within the country who were opposed to their policies, as well as those identified as informers and spies. ❋ Unknown (1998)

* If the ANC used specially trained hit squads to assassinate and eliminate carefully chosen targets considered "enemies" of the armed struggle (including ANC dissidents who publicly spoke out against the movement, political leaders of opposition parties, traditional leaders - especially IFP supporters in Natal, so-called informers and even members of their own organisation). ❋ Unknown (1998)

Last month the amnesty committee ruled that it was not appropriate for Hechter to name informers who reported to him. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is debating whether to widen the definition of "severe ill-treatment" to include people who have been labelled informers, threatened with rape or coerced into taking part in boycotts. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Township residents identified as informers or collaborators were harshly dealt with, the commission was told at its hearing in ❋ Unknown (1996)

Twenty percent are "informers" who post information to their followers, from links to articles to breaking news. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

It was full of characters on the make - and really did have men called 'informers', who hid behind pillars listening for information they could sell, or who actually took people to court in order to receive compensation like modern 'ambulance chasers'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Representing more "informers" (including Lee J. Cobb, Sterling Hayden, Richard Collins, and many more) than any other Hollywood attorney, by 1951 he had become a "symbol of collaboration," and Charles Katz, one of the legal team for the Ten, likened Gang to "Torquemada's adjutant." ❋ Unknown (2007)

A good number of such "informers" were people with "spoilt biographies," that is, children of those classified as "class enemies" (an example is Simonov) who were anxious to improve their status. ❋ Frank, Joseph (2009)

"We" being Leila Khaled, Palestinian hijacker and hostage-taker, and Danny Morrison, Sinn Fein/IRA publicity head (and the man who has the last word on what happens to republican 'informers'). ❋ Laban (2004)

More serious is the problem of the Maoists killing "informers" and others deemed to be their opponents when other methods of dealing with them could have sufficed. ❋ Abhay N (2006)

"We" being Leila Khaled, Palestinian hijacker and hostage-taker, and Danny Morrison, Sinn Fein/IRA publicity head and the man who has the last word on what happens to republican 'informers'. ❋ Laban (2004)

* If the ANC supported the use of the necklace method as a way of dealing with so-called "informers" or perceived "collaborators". ❋ Unknown (1998)

The warm-hearted Irish cook had a characteristic contempt for "informers," but although she said nothing she compromised between informing and her conscience by casting a look under the table. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Irish cook had a characteristic contempt for "informers," but although she said nothing she compromised between informing and her conscience by casting a look under the table. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)