Word: briganti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breathless Accounts. Young people have organized into associations to combat the briganti, have tacked up posters denouncing their terrorism and sought to expose townspeople who collaborate with them. From their pulpits, the island's Roman Catholic priests have declared a moral war on the bandits. The mayor of the northern town of Nuoro has demanded their punishment, crying, in Sardinia's Latinate dialect, "Zustissia cherimm!" (We want justice!). Nearly 1,000 shepherds and hunters have joined carabinieri and police dogs in searching for the bandits' mountain hideouts in the island's northwest. In recent weeks, they...
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