Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after overthrowing Chile's democratically elected government in 1973, forces under Pinochet's command began to obliterate vast segments of the country's population. Thousands of people whose political, ethnic or religious backgrounds suggested that they might oppose Pinochet's junta were abducted by the military. Thousands more were abducted by paramilitary groups controlled by Pinochet's aides. Once in custody, victims were often tortured or sexually assaulted. While some lived to tell about it, over 4,000 people were either killed by Pinochet's forces or disappeared while in custody. Although the missing are still technically victims...
...future will receive. By demonstrating that nations will take seriously their obligation to prosecute genocidal and terrorist leaders, Spain and Britain have demonstrated to the world that such leaders will face prosecution and imprisonment. Perhaps this demonstration will make leaders think twice in the future before wiping out ethnic, religious or political groups that they dislike...
...city that prides itself as one of the most liberal in the country, one headline this summer was particularly jolting. Top training officers in the Cambridge Police Department said they taught new recruits that pepper spray was less effective on members of certain Hispanic ethnic groups because of their alleged predilection for spicy foods...
...intents and purposes a separate state (as Taipei maintains) or simply a rebel province (as Beijing insists). The Taiwanese, for example, aren't all convinced that they're actually linked "as flesh and blood" to the mainland Chinese, with many nationalist elements maintaining that their differences are ethnic as much as political. So if emergency aid sent across the Taiwan Strait is given different meanings in each capital, that could bedevil any warming of relations through earthquake relief...
...Number of ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo before the NATO campaign...