Word: martyrdoms
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...population--both Hutu and Tutsi. Ruhuna had received countless threats before, as have other prelates. Both Hutu and Tutsi blamed each other for the crime, and on Friday the military announced it had killed seven Hutu rebels it claimed were behind the murder. Ruhuna's martyrdom has not led to a cessation of violence. In the 48 hours after his death, four other ambushes were reported...
Then there's the Holocaust. In a 1990 newspaper column, Buchanan didn't hesitate to say that people who survived the Nazi death camps suffer from "group fantasies of martyrdom." He even tried his hand at Holocaust revisionism, arguing that diesel-engine exhaust could not have killed so many Jews at Treblinka. Hitler? A mass murderer, Buchanan admits in a 1977 piece, but a man of "great courage" and "a soldier's soldier." If it matters to you that you don't leave the impression that you are carrying a torch for the Fuhrer, that's a judgment you frame...
...Buchanan is known for his hyper-sensitivity to comparisons between him and Hitler--I wonder why. Is it because he referred to the man who came closest to annihilating the Jewish people as "an individual of great courage" or that he equated Holocaust Survivor Syndrome with "group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics"? As a man hoping to distinguish himself from Hitler, he ought to rethink his oratorical strategy...
...physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
...very big gamble. Though Rabin's martyrdom has given the peace process a boost, says a U.S. Pentagon official, "the question is, will it outlast the next Palestinian car bomb that kills Israelis? Nobody knows." Earlier terrorist attacks that have killed 150 Israelis since the original Rabin-Arafat accord in September 1993 did more than anything else to turn almost half the Israeli public against those accords...