Word: caning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...govern if we let him off and not cane him? Can we then cane any other foreigner or our own people? We'll have to close shop. That's my view. I am an old-style Singaporean who believes that to govern you must have a certain moral authority. If we do not cane him because he is an American, I believe we'll lose our moral authority and our right to govern...
White-haired, bearded Cronje Tshaka is older than the 82-year-old African National Congress. Now he has outlived apartheid. Clutching his identity book in one hand and his cane in the other, Tshaka, 95, waited patiently in line to vote last week -- like all South Africa's black citizens, for the first time in his life. He shook off offers of help, walking unsteadily but unaided into the polling station in Guguletu, one of the toughest and grimiest of the black townships around Cape Town. Minutes later he emerged, a broad grin lighting his face. "I never thought...
Heck, let's give him six whacks of the cane...
...between East and West about human rights. Several large Asian countries, China among them, argue that the U.S. has no business criticizing their own, equally legitimate values. But Japan stresses majority rights too. So does Hong Kong. Neither is watering its economic miracle with the blood from a bamboo cane...
Moreover, serious assaults, as measured by the statistics, go beyond the restricted application of rattan cane, and include beatings shootings and stabbings...