Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Background: as Defense Minister, Rabin oversaw a brutal policy to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, granting soldiers the right to break bones...
...stifle the discontent, Saddam has become more brutal. In June his secular regime applied Islamic punishments to lawbreakers: amputating a thief's right hand for a first offense, a foot for a second offense. In August it was decreed that an army deserter or anyone sheltering him would lose...
...very next drive, Cornell extended the lead. After receiving a punt on its 25-yard line, Cornell mounted a long, 11-play drive characterized by the brutal, up-the-middle running of Smith and Levitt. With the ball at the Harvard 24, Joyce split the Crimson defensive backfield perfectly, hitting a streaking Bjerke on a post-pattern for a touchdown. The extra point was blocked by senior Crimson defensive back David St. Peter...
...Saturday, the attaches' first brutal attacks had succeeded in violently dismantling three separate pro-democracy marches. Gunmen swaggered through the streets of the capital, boasting that they would kill anyone who tried to shut them down. Such eruptions of violence dispelled the spin, confidently put forward by one Clinton Administration official, that everything was going well and unfolding according to a White House plan "adopted months before we went ashore." Americans were confused by successive scenes of trouble in Haiti: sometimes U.S. soldiers stepped in, sometimes they did not. The true nature of American involvement remained hazy as the troops...
...something to be welcomed joyfully. In Cap Haitien, while residents celebrated the return of electricity for the first time in three years -- courtesy of the Marines -- only one uniformed Haitian soldier remained at his post. The rest of the garrison -- from Lieut. Colonel Claudel Josaphat, the feared and brutal regional military commander, to telephone repairmen who owed their jobs to the de facto government -- had fled. Shortly after U.S. forces arrived, a delegation of local dignitaries approached Marine commander Colonel Thomas Jones. "I guess you are the new mayor of Cap Haitien," their spokesman announced. Asked what were the capabilities...