Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims of a protracted war with Ethiopia, live in refugee camps within Somalia. The Sudan shelters another 637,000 refugees, including secessionist Eritreans who have been forced to flee Marxist-oriented Ethiopia, as well as 200,000 Ugandans. The Ugandan refugees have fled in two waves: those escaping the brutal policies of former Dictator Idi Amin in the '70s and those who have recently left Uganda to avoid President Milton Obote's military "cleanup" operations. Zaïre supports another 335,000 refugees from upheavals in Angola, Rwanda and Burundi...
...failure of Soviet weapons in the Middle East must give Soviet leaders pause. The same applies to the miserable campaign waged by the Red Army in Afghanistan, where, notwithstanding its immense advantage in firepower, victory seems as clusive as ever, and resort has to be had to mindlessly brutal, almost genocidal, terror tactics The fact that Moscow sees President Reagan as a strong and decisive leader further inhibits its spirit of adventure. The Soviet Union needs militarism and the threat of war primarily to keep at bay mounting pressures for reform inside its empire and to intimidate foreign countries, especially...
...brutal December kills 500 and ruins $500 million in crops...
...military's "dirty war" against suspected subversives, at least 6,000 people disappeared, victims of death squads that often operated with official sanction. What gave Argentines hope was their new civilian government's apparent determination to bring to justice those responsible for 7½ years of brutal repression under military rule...
Condemnation of the attack poured in from all sides. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock expressed his horror at "this insane assault upon innocent people." Calling the bombing "brutal and barbaric," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: "It is a crime against humanity, and at Christmas it is particularly cruel." Not surprisingly, the event stirred renewed calls for the death penalty for terrorist killings...