Word: brutalize
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Keitetsi, a former member of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in Uganda, recounted her story—a childhood spent killing in the bush, brutal rape and torture at the hands of superiors and an escape to Denmark—last night at Emerson hall to draw attention to the horrors faced by child soldiers in conflicts in Africa...
During her time in the NRA, Keitetsi was subject to severe training, brutal bush fighting, and other abuses, including repeated rape which resulted in the birth of her son in 1991—when Keitetsi was only...
Wallis acknowledged the threat posed by Iraq, calling Saddam Hussein a “genuinely evil, brutal dictator...
...divided, Sunni against Shiite and everyone against the Kurds. Though a coalition government representing all the major groups sounds attractive on paper, it would only set the stage for anarchy as each region, religion and ethnicity tried to grab as much as it could. The strongest and most brutal faction will prevail absent constant outside intervention. Only the total occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces can wrest democracy from these conditions, an expensive solution that seems guaranteed to breed Iraqi anti-Americanism...
...bunkers of Baghdad might be a more fruitful place to start our search. For all his paranoia, Saddam cannot avoid cultivating military leaders. Furthermore, he can only keep his army in line by resorting to brutal purges. The senior officers now in command experienced the Gulf War and they know they are even weaker now. We can be confident that they are not terribly excited about getting themselves and their men slaughtered. A decade’s worth of testimony from Iraqi military defectors, including the army chief of staff at the time of the invasion of Kuwait, shows that...