English-Portuguese translations for deserter

• desertor
  Apoiamos a campanha anti-recrutamento e reclamamos a concessão de asilo político aos desertores.’ We support the counter-recruitment campaign and demand political asylum for deserters.’
  Albaneses do Kosovo e desertores sérvios vêem recusado o estatuto de refugiado, enquanto Pinochet escapa tranquilamente ao seu processo. Kosovo Albanians and Serb deserters are being refused refugee status, whereas Pinochet is calmly escaping prosecution.
  De igual modo, a Europa recusou-se, em plena Guerra do Kosovo, em conceder o estatuto de refugiado aos desertores sérvios ou aos kosovares perseguidos. In the same way Europe refused, at the height of the war in Kosovo, to give refugee status to Serbian deserters or to the Kosovars who were being persecuted.

Definition of deserter

• A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving

Related words

• deserted
• deserted farm
• become deserted