Word: methodic
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This is not a conflict in which civilian casualties are a secondary consequence of regular warfare: civilians are prime targets, and every method to terrorize, displace or, if need be, kill them is part of the arsenals on all sides. The fundamental objective of the war is Serbian "ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share...
Although he acknowledges that cervicaldislocation is s method of euthanasia accepted bythe American veterinary Medicine Association hesays he has reservations about the practice...
...Donna Bishop '81 of the Alliance forAnimals says "the dislocation method obviously isgoing to be painful and traumatizing...
...while Harvard has stopped killing rates andmice in Cambridge by cervical dislocation, itcontinues to use the method in some facilities atthe Harvard Medical Area. The medical area, homeof Harvard Medical School, the School of PublicHealth, the Dental School and a number of Harvardteaching hospitals, is located in Boston--outsideWiles's jurisdiction...
Other times, though, he is darkly sober as hetouches the wooden mouse on his desk and recallswitnessing the cervical dislocation method...