Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hussein Kamel, better than most, was in a position to understand how brutal his reception was likely to be. Defecting was bad enough. Once in exile, however, he denounced Saddam as a tyrant and murderer and gave the U.N. valuable information about Iraq's weapons program. Saddam has ordered countless executions for far less serious transgressions. Hussein Kamel knew all this, but if he had any remaining uncertainty about his father-in-law's attitude toward him, it should have been dispelled by Iraq's state-controlled media, which branded him a thief, a coward, a spy and a "traitor...
...addition, several members of the council expressed reservations about accepting the money at all because PepsiCo. has investments in Burma, a country governed by a brutal military dictatorship...
...praise what she's done because I don't think it's easy in the midst of losing your parents in such a brutal manner to persevere," he says...
These two targets, namely fear and resentment, are not the ingredients of a democracy but of history's most brutal regimes. In a country which has prided itself on being a true melting pot for a diverse population of many different racial, ethnic, religious and cultural strands, Buchananism is at the very least problematic and at the very worst utterly destructive of our socio-political heritage. His is the constitution of a rising demagogue...
Down in the cesspool of Port-au-Prince, it does not feel that way. A brutal dictatorship, a repressive army and organized political violence have been banished, but crime and mob rule are filling the vacuum of authority. Five thousand ill-trained, ill-equipped and immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment...