Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responsible for most of the slaughter are the exiled leaders of a dissident political party banned in 1955, who are working to undermine 35-year-old Premier Ahma-dou Ahidjo's fledgling government. The party is led by Dr. Felix-Roland Moumie, who has been issuing Czech pistols to Bamileke tribesmen. Just back from Moscow, Moumie operates from his refuge in nearby really independent Guinea. His followers hide in the hills or attack from across the border in the neighboring British Cameroons...
...assassin; in Madrid. Embittered by the Allies' creation of Yugoslavia after World War I, Pavelic promised obedience to Nazi Germany in return for a new state of Croatia with himself at the head of it. In the course of the war, he ordered or sanctioned the slaughter of 800,000 Serbs, Jews and Croats...
Long Day's Journey. At 3:20 p.m., Farah, dressed in her 33-lb., jewel-encrusted, mink-hemmed Dior wedding gown, descended the staircase of her home for the last time, stepped to a cage and set free 150 nightingales, a ritual she preferred to the usual symbolic slaughter of lambs all over the countryside. As she walked through the front door, her mother held over her head a mirror and the Koran as a symbol of the long journey she was about to take. Finally, escorted by a troop of Imperial Lancers, Farah was driven in a Rolls...