Meanings of disavow violence in English

Members of the latter class are known as militant socialists, as opposed to those who disavow violence and rely chiefly upon political weapons.

The DTP was banned in December for having links with the PKK, though DTP leaders disavow violence and deny any affiliation with the militant group.

In accordance with this later view, there is to-day a considerable socialist group which disavows violence.

Sadr has disavowed violence against fellow Iraqis.

Sadr has disavowed violence against fellow Iraqis and in 2008 ordered his militia to become a humanitarian group.

So too has al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, a Salafi group that took up arms against the state but disavowed violence in 1997.

But other sympathetic groups, such as Hamas, which identifies the Brotherhood as its spiritual guide, have not disavowed violence against the state of Israel.