Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...torture: electric shock, burning on a heated metal grill, and the insertion of bottles and hot eggs into the anus. Last spring Anne Burley, an Amnesty International researcher, was shown by the government a SAVAK file that she deems authentic, containing pictures of victims who had been tortured to death. Several were women, she says, and "in each case the breasts were mutilated...
...going to commit suicide for fear of death. We are not going to commit suicide to lose our dignity, just because the American carriers are over there. Let them be there. Let them attack, and what else...
...During beatings or electrocution you must not cry loudly. 3. If you disobey any of my regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five electric shocks." Said Curator Ing Pech, 52, an electrical engineer who is one of only four known survivors of the death camp: "Everyone here was accused of working for either the CIA or the Soviet KGB. After I received 50 blows to the head, I confessed. But after eight months, I was freed to work in the prison because I was the only one who could operate the electrical system." Those less...
...winsome Sophon, 4, whose father, a captain in Lon Nol's army, was killed by Pol Pot's forces. Now she listlessly waved her arms as she sang a song titled The Day They Killed My Father. At the end, when she described her father's death, she drew a forefinger across her throat, as if to slash...
...reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait in dark alleys to rob passersby. In Hangzhou (Hangchow) last month, two brothers were sentenced to death-and one of them immediately executed-for having raped 106 women over the past five years. In the southern district of Shaoguan (Shao-kuan), nine teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman at an evening film show; their leader was sentenced to life imprisonment at a public rally...