Word: slaughtered
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...What dark chain of events led to the death of the King and nine other members of the royal family is the question that continues to confuse and convulse the landlocked country at the foot of Mount Everest more than a week after the gruesome, predinner slaughter at the King's Narahiti royal palace compound in Kathmandu. An official probe being worked on over the weekend to reach a verdict will probably put the blame on an allegedly intoxicated and unhinged Crown Prince Dipendra, who was found fatally wounded near the scene of the massacre and named King while...
...collapse of political order in Indonesia has put the world's fourth-largest country through one nightmare after another in recent years: ethnic cleansing, cannibalism, mob massacres, military slaughter of civilians, lynch mobs enacting vigilante justice. But lost among these headline-grabbing horrors are other tragedies, the kind that will continue to haunt Indonesia long after the headlines have been forgotten. Factories are spewing out toxins unchecked, illegal loggers are slicing through national parks with impunity, and poachers and hunters are decimating the country's rich wildlife. At sea, pollution, uncontrolled fishing and the use of cyanide and dynamite threaten...
...territory's estimated 1.2 million poultry as a new and highly virulent strain of avian flu was discovered. All market poultry stalls were shut down, and imports of live birds from China were halted. The new H5N1 virus is genetically different from the virus that led to the slaughter of all Hong Kong's poultry - and six human deaths...
...amazed at the confusion in the accounts of what happened that fateful night when civilians were killed in Thanh Phong [NATION, May 7]. The stories told by former Senator Bob Kerrey and his squad mate Gerhard Klann are completely different. Klann would have us believe it was a meticulous slaughter of unarmed women and children. Kerrey recalls that the killings were an accident that occurred during a confusing night of war. Since the stories are so contradictory, and we can't distinguish the truth, we should put this behind us and move forward. Judgment of these men will...
...many Japanese men, women and children were condemned to death when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I am 86 years old and have lived through "the war to end all wars." Don't blame Kerrey for the slaughter at Thanh Phong. Blame the powers that be for sending men and women into battle. ESTHER MORRISON Santa...