Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came across an article on lynching [in the spring of 1992]," Toomer says. "I had no concept of how brutal and horrific it could be. It was an image I couldn't leave behind. I thought the best way to work through my feelings was to write about it...I forced myself to think about it even though it was so horrifying...
...that, though punctuated with sporadic violence, could practically qualify as peace in the Balkans. The focus was on ethnic Serbs battering ethnic Muslims. No longer. Muslim residents of Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, are not preoccupied with Serb attempts to seize the eastern part of the once graceful city. Brutal street battles now flare as the Croats rain artillery fire on the Muslim districts, killing scores of residents and forcing thousands of others to flee for their lives...
...that generated the most anger among faculty and students during that past four years was the war. It gave us SUDS arguing for patriotism, SAWME arguing for defiance, and Students for a Free Kuwait arguing that Americans should risk their lives and pay the bill to reinstate the notoriously brutal (and fantastically rich) Kuwaiti monarchy...
...Waco, an NBC crew was recording an enactment for a made-for-TV movie airing next month. In Ohio, meanwhile, another standoff, quite real, came to a less violent end as the more than 400 prisoners who took over a state penitentiary surrendered. The death toll was still brutal: a guard and nine inmates. (See cover stories beginning on page...
Will anything work? The first Administration initiative -- a package of modest diplomatic measures announced on Feb. 10 -- is universally seen as a bust. Not only have negotiations on Bosnia failed but Serbian aggression has become even more brutal and more successful...