Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowds of curious civilians blocked the highway and forced us to park the car about a mile from the firefight. The faces of the onlookers revealed a nervous excitement rather than fear. As we walked further down the road, the sound of machine gun fire became louder, but to our surprise the crowd did not thin. The multitude of people offered us a sense of security, so we kept on moving towards the battle...
...steps further brought us to the edge of the thinning crowd, and at last we could see the fighting. The troops battled in a space of about two blocks, and on the other side another large crowd of people looked on. There were two government tanks moving slowly down the road between the two camps and through the crossfire of automatic weapons...
...showed us a bullet he had plundered earlier from the truck as a souvenier. Apparently the boys hoped that both the government and the rebels would take care not to shoot them even though it was known that earlier the rebels had opened fire on a crowd of pro-government civilians...
...felt almost as if I were watching some spectator sport. Although I did not see it happen, I heard later on the news that occasionally some people in the crowd would applaud and whistle as the government troops stepped up their attack...
...witness her immolation. After taking a ritual bath, the woman dressed once more in her bright red bridal finery. Sitting atop the funeral pyre with her husband's corpse, his head on her lap, she asked her teenage brother-in-law to light the fire. Within moments, as the crowd's cries reached a climax, she was consumed by flames...