Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down the shafts of their drawn arrows!" It turned out that Chagnon "had arrived just after a serious fight. Seven women had been abducted the day before by a neighboring group, and the local men and their guests had just that morning recovered five of them in a brutal club fight." The men were vigilantly awaiting retaliation when Chagnon popped in for a chat...
...attempts to contain it. On Friday, July 21, the NATO allies announced a bold new plan to deter Serb aggression. In the days that followed this call to arms, Ratko Mladic, the commander of the rebel Bosnian Serbs, seized and "ethnically cleansed" one "safe area," Zepa, and intensified a brutal assault on another, Bihac. Meanwhile, an eventuality that the U.N. and NATO had dearly hoped to prevent--a widening of the Balkan war--seemed by Friday to have occurred, as Croatia joined the fighting. Not a very good record for any week, much less one that was supposed...
...warped by racist double standards where human rights are concerned, the bogus arrest, kangaroo-court trial and harsh sentencing of General Olusegun Obasanjo would have produced front-page headlines and a torrent of protests. Instead the persecution of one of Africa's foremost proponents of democracy by Nigeria's brutal military regime has caused hardly a ripple outside a small circle of government leaders and human-rights activists. Is this because the press and general public, including African Americans, take assaults on political freedom perpetrated by black dictators against their own black citizens less seriously than other such crimes...
...catalyst for the Lancaster House conference was the brutal Serb assault on the eastern enclave of Srebrenica two weeks ago. The Serbs made captives of men and boys of military age and, in a new wave of "ethnic cleansing," sent the rest of the town's 42,000 Muslims fleeing to government lines. U.N. officials collecting the testimony of refugees are convinced that the Serbs committed appalling acts of rape and murder. The Serbs then moved on Zepa, and Mladic staged a surrender ceremony with some Bosnian civilians at an abandoned U.N. observation post outside town. But the government troops...
...senior Western diplomat in Belgrade says the initiative results from the Serbs' "overloaded circuits": the Bosnian Serbs' brutal conduct of the war and the sanctions against Yugoslavia have isolated Serbia from the world community; the Bosnian Serbs show signs of becoming weary of the fight; and Belgrade has nothing more to gain from the conflict. But there is another theory: Milosevic's ultimate goal after peace is reached, he says, is some sort of re-confederated Yugoslavia. And who better to lead such a regional, pan-Slavic conglomerate than himself...