Word: brutalize
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...western town of Zouan-Hounien to enforce a cease-fire agreed by government and rebel forces at the beginning of May. The French and West African troops were greeted by children - some wearing women's wigs - firing AK-47s into the air. The western region has seen brutal fighting since an armed rebellion split the country in two eight months ago. Ivorian rebels, many of them children, have engaged in recent weeks in pitched battles with mercenaries from neighboring Liberia. - By Kate Davenport/Zouan-Hounien Caught on Camera BRITAIN An 18-year-old British soldier on leave from his unit in Iraq...
...OVER Brutal bombings in Saudi Arabia remind the world that despite America's victory in Iraq, this is no time to get complacent. Should we brace ourselves for "100 bin Ladens...
Balthazar is one of the toughest tables in New York, but Lawson has a private reservation number, so we are escorted to a large booth across from Ed Norton and Salma Hayek. "I've been very brutal about the cheese," she says after eliminating two subpar goat cheeses from the Balthazar selection. She also has strong opinions about the wine. "It needs to breathe for several generations. It will be very good one day." The desserts, however--pineapple upside-down cake, fruit focaccia and tarte tatin--appeal to her in all their Rubenesque unsubtlety. And as she removes the last...
...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...Unlike Aceh, East Timor no longer suffers at the often brutal hands of the Indonesian military. But now, a year after winning its freedom, this tiny nation faces a slew of daunting challenges, from constructing a viable economy to repairing lives ravaged by more than 20 years of violence and misery. None have endured more than the former members of the guerrilla group Falintil, those most responsible for liberating East Timor. For two decades these defiant fighters clung to what President Xanana Gusmao, himself a former guerrilla leader, once called the "sacred ideal" of independence. Now that they have achieved...