Word: bloodbath
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...London, Paris and beyond, in one of the first examples of global economic contagion. News travels a little faster these days, and markets don't just follow Wall Street's lead, they anticipate it: stocks in parts of Asia dropped even before New York awoke last Monday, previewing the bloodbath that was to come in the U.S. Here's the buzz (and gloom) from five global financial centers - along with the drop in their main stock index between the moment before opening on Monday and the close of trading three days later...
...prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), did just that. But by then diplomats were up in arms, as it sank in that Moreno-Ocampo actually meant to go through with it. In private meetings and public statements, they told Moreno-Ocampo that he would be responsible for a bloodbath. "My answer was: Today [the people of Darfur] are being killed. Today they are being destroyed and have no hope," Moreno-Ocampo told me a few days before he announced his indictment. "Maybe you can be part of the cover-up. The prosecutor cannot be part of the cover...
...blocking negotiations with the country's black leaders, especially the jailed Nelson Mandela. The so-called Eminent Persons Group that drew up the report warned that unless the Commonwealth nations take strong new measures to force the South African government to change its policies, there ''could be the worst bloodbath since the Second World War.'' The immediate justification for the new state of emergency was the preparation for a series of strikes, demonstrations and vigils by antiapartheid groups to commemorate the tenth anniversary of a June 1976 uprising in Soweto, the sprawling township outside Johannesburg that houses some 2 million...
...outsiders, the peaceful transitions from white to black rule in Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa were nothing short of miraculous. Many expected that white rule in Southern Africa would end in a bloodbath. But there was a price. While the new rulers accepted the notions of Western-style multiparty democracy, in their hearts the liberation movements did not contemplate that they could lose power at the ballot...
...Whether Beijing is prepared to recognize it at this stage or not, the Dalai Lama may represent its best hope of stabilizing Tibet without a bloodbath - persuading those Tibetans now tilting at the Chinese presence in their midst to voluntarily stand down. And, perhaps sensing that more militant Tibetans are embarking on a no-win path of confrontation, the Dalai Lama is, in fact, moving to restrain them. Threatening to resign his political post if the confrontations persist, he told his followers that "violence is against human nature." Clearly troubled by the images of Tibetans in Lhasa responding...