Word: bloodshedding
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A more serious obstacle, perhaps, is the escalating violence. For months De Klerk has proved unable to persuade Mandela and the African National Congress to hold peace talks with rival leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi on ending the black-against-black fighting that has taken more than 700 lives since mid...
Saddam has often been compared with Adolf Hitler. It would be no comfort at all to those making the comparison if he too died in a bunker amid the blazing ruins of his capital at the end of a war in which he had loosed fearful bloodshed and destruction on...
More than 700 people have died in the townships around Johannesburg since fighting broke out in mid-August, largely between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and Zulus belonging to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha movement. Last week the bloodshed reached a numbing climax, when black men rampaged...
Hoping to avoid further bloodshed, the government purchased, on behalf of the Mohawks, the parcel of land that has been at the center of the dispute. Last week the authorities further emphasized that they were ready to negotiate with the Kanesatake group over its grievances as soon as the last...
Aside from all the bloodshed, wars waste vast quantities of money -- which this government hasn't got. Just preparing the intervention to protect allegedly threatened Saudi Arabia is costing about $46 million a day (and has just about killed all hope of a post-cold war peace dividend). So far...