Word: alayna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict threatens to replace Viet Nam as Asia's ugliest war. Casualty figures are unreliable, but each side claims to be killing its enemies at a rate of up to 100 a week. Other kinds of casualties may well run higher. "My husband was a farmer," says Mrs. Alayna Sosokan. "The soldiers told him to lie on his stomach, and then they shot him, along with four other men. Then the homes were burned." Army officers, for their part, tell gruesome tales of soldiers being mutilated by the guerrillas...