Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration, there are several reasons. A successful invasion could rapidly earn credibility for a foreign policy widely decried as weak and inept. It would also stand as an important victory for the international community: an unjust regime would be toppled; a brutal embargo would be lifted. What's more, say some experts, this is the first -- and most essential -- step toward getting Haiti on its feet. "There is no way to govern without restoring President Aristide," says Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. "So, regrettable as it is, military intervention is less regrettable than...
Elma Ahmic, 17, is haunted by memories of the brutal destruction of her village near Vitez, 37 miles north of Sarajevo, on April 16, 1993. A unit of the Bosnian Croat militia called the Jokers first shelled the mostly Muslim town, then moved in to finish off the men. Relations with local Croats had been good, she said, but after the arrival of the militiamen, "about 20 people surrounded our house, shouting, 'Get out of here! This is Croatia, not Turkey!' My father came out and asked them what they wanted. They took my father and killed him. They shot...
...town of Gahini, Rayontina Mukansonera, 19, describes being raped repeatedly by Hutu militia before escaping in the confusion following the rebel advance. "They showed no mercy," she says, matter-of-factly. "Someone who destroys your life deserves to die also." For the R.P.F., healing the ethnic wounds of this brutal war will take more than words alone...
...done in such a brutal way that that'swhat sparked the strike," Hyland says...
...could be naughty, perhaps acting out of knowledge of her husband's indiscretions. Before the brutal end of the New Frontier came, there was the feeling that the two had grown closer together because of the inexorable public pressure that surrounded the White House. But in the summer of 1963 she went off with her sister Lee Radziwill for a European cruise, stayed twice as long as scheduled as stories of nocturnal sightings filtered back. Jack was sore. That was one of the reasons she went to Dallas in November on that . doomed political junket, a gesture of contrition...