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Word: bilwaskarma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...boasting that Sandinista soldiers had killed counterrevolutionaries coming out of Honduras. This was the same shooting I was reading about. The report I was reading said the people were searching for food and lived in Nicaragua. They had gone from Waspán [a town on the river] to Bilwaskarma in their canoes. I couldn't understand this. I fought against the barbarities Somoza committed against the Nicaraguan people. But as the revolutionary process increased, the level of class hatred increased. Among the officers, an attitude was created that one should kill rather than forgive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: New Regime, Old Methods | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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