Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angry controversy. State fish and wildlife authorities said that the six days of hunting, during which 880 animals were killed, would not damage a herd that has increased more than tenfold since 1935 to a current population of more than 20,000. But many Down Easters found the slaughter distasteful. Said Outdoorsman John N. Cole, contributing editor of the weekly Maine Times: "The moose is Maine's state animal. If we are going to change that status and hunt it, there ought to be a vote of all the people." A pro-moose outfit called SMOOSA (for Save Maine...
...Muslims slaughter Christians, Christians slaughter Muslims, Muslims slaughter other Muslims, and everybody blames the Jews...
...militiamen spent the night at slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers...
...Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless the slaughter has some especially lunatic human interest, as Jonestown did, we move on soon enough to other business. All of that death dissolves by and by into a form of abstraction...
...Hutus killed by Tutsis in Burundi, for example, or the million or three Cambodians dead under Pol Pot) somehow should make the deaths in the Palestinian camps seem less cataclysmic, less imposingly significant. Horrible, of course. But Lebanese Christians and Muslims have been trafficking in such mutual slaughter forever. Their blood feud in the past seven years has taken more than 60,000 lives...