Word: brutalize
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...Devi was born, once upon a time - that is, 38 years ago - of a low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh. Sold into marriage at age 11, she ran away from her brutal husband, and fell in love with a highway robber...
...Dacoits - the storied bandits who roam the desolate plains of northern India. Devi exploded into the national consciousness in 1981, as the 21-year-old leader of a Dacoit gang that massacred 21 men of the Thakur landowning caste in the village of Bhemai. The massacre was a brutal revenge attack - Devi had been held prisoner and repeatedly gang-raped by upper-caste men of the village earlier the same year. And while it established her notoriety as one of India?s most-wanted bandits, in the eyes of millions of Dalits it also turned her into an icon...
Phoolan Devi's life, as dramatized in the movie "The Bandit Queen," was an extraordinarily violent Indian Cinderella story. But when the laws of probability finally caught up with Devi outside her New Delhi home on Tuesday, its fairytale ending was rewritten. The film helped propel the brutalized teenager-turned-brutal avenger into parliament as a champion of India's marginalized "untouchable" caste. But the real life "Bandit Queen" died Tuesday in a hail of bullets fired by unknown assassins...
...brutal reality of the Balkans could be that democracy?s ability to eradicate the region?s tribal hatreds may be overstated. At the very least, it would appear that the existence of democratic institutions does not necessarily signal the dominance of a democratic, multiethnic political culture. And that would mean the nation-building project may be so long-term as to make the Balkan peacekeeping deployments a relatively permanent affair...
...once once-thriving tourism industry. The first thing they might look at are the formalities required of the departing visitor. It's not easy leaving Sierra Leone. Officially, at least. Though hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled without documents into neighboring countries during the worst fighting of the brutal civil war, the world's poorest country makes leaving through the front door a lot tougher. Here's what you have...