Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three main groups fighting the government -- the E.P.R.D.F., an allied group of Eritreans fighting for independence and a smaller band of insurgent Oromos -- are not eager to storm the capital, Addis Ababa, knowing that a bloodbath would ensue. Thus the U.S. is attempting to arrange a peaceful transfer of power to a broad-based transitional government that would rule the country until elections are held...
...only served as the governor of occupied Kuwait during Iraq's rape of the country but also allegedly supervised the gassing of rebellious Kurds in Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000. Baghdad also expelled all foreign journalists from the country, perhaps to eliminate witnesses to a coming bloodbath. Opposition leaders were terrified that Saddam would use chemical weapons against his own people once again. U.S. officials last week warned Iraqi diplomats in Washington and New York against such action. The diplomats said their government had no intention of using gas, but one Shi'ite leader claimed it had already been...
...stability through control of the army and a network of secret police and informers that penetrates every niche of Iraqi society. If that is swept away, simmering tensions between the Shi'ite Muslims (55% of the population), Sunni Muslims (20%) and Kurds (25%) could conceivably erupt into a communal bloodbath, fragmenting the country into another Lebanon...
...Iraq and the U.S. would make the possibility of a solution to the Palestinian question remote at best in the foreseeable future. If Iraq attacks Israel, as it has said it would do, and Israel retaliates, as it has indicated, then the Middle East would be plunged into a bloodbath that would be unlikely to produce a Palestinian solution. Only an Iraqi military victory against tremendous odds would give Hussein the leverage to force territorial concessions from Israel...
Army Coach Rob Riley had promised a bloodbath reminiscent of last year's Tate clash and sure enough, a Cadets hacker sent sophomore wing Matt Mallgrave to the bench in the second session with a reinjured shoulder. Since senior wing John Weisbrod was already sidelined with a sore back, Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni was forced to go with a three-line rotation the remainder of the game...