Word: maim
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...Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn? Martha Howe Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Why is no one discussing the possibility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with friendly or at least neutral forces from Arab countries? Egypt and Jordan should assist in the peacekeeping. Muslim countries should help Iraqi...
...Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn...
...explain to a child. But compared to this, war is easy. When my daughters saw the pictures flashed on the Today show and wanted to know "Why are there wires attached to that man's hands?", I could not bring myself to explain that this is designed to maim a man's soul: in a culture that sanctifies masculine pride and sexual privacy, you strip him and make him masturbate in front of a mocking female captor, or put him on a leash or pretend you are going to electrocute him. But I did have to explain that...
...suffering. In interviews conducted for the BBC's Panorama TV program in the slums of Johannesburg, dozens of youths - some traumatized like Debbie, many others now laden with guilt - described similar experiences in government-run camps around Zimbabwe in which youths are, the witnesses say, trained to maim, torture and kill. Youths who have fled the camps say they are used to train Mugabe's feared youth militia - known as the Green Bombers after the uniforms some wear - that have been so ruthlessly effective at suppressing opposition to the regime. The youths attack suspected opposition supporters with sticks or iron...
...Land mines are designed to maim, not to kill. They are weapons of terror.” Kalbusch said. “Producing a land mine costs about a dollar, removing it costs a thousand...