Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times argued that: 1) there was no large-scale killing at My Lai; 2) yes, there was a lot of killing but it had been done by helicopter and artillery rather than Galley's platoon; 3) the scared and vengeful mood of Galley's men made a slaughter inevitable and they could not be blamed; 4) Calley had not committed the charged crime, and well maybe he had, but he was acting under orders and suffering from mental stress...
...bald eagles left in the U.S. outside of Alaska, and an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 golden eagles. As an endangered species, they are protected by strict federal laws from hunters, including ranchers, who hold to the largely disproved conviction that eagles are responsible for the mass slaughter of lambs...
There are also indications that economics will finish this senseless slaughter. Consumers have enhanced the horse's value for pleasure instead of meat. The people wanting cheaper riding horses end up competing with the meat...
Then Numeiry set about the business of revenge. "Arrest every Communist," he told the Sudanese. "The Communists are traitors." Whether that order would lead to an Indonesian-style slaughter was uncertain; in any case, the government was taking care of its special enemies. Numeiry established four tribunals for speedy justice. Atta and three other rebel officers were shot the next morning; other executions followed. Nour and Hamadallah, who were delivered to Numeiry by Gaddafi's aides, may also die. Like Jordan's King Hussein (see following story), the Sudanese leader was using strong measures to consolidate his power...
...perhaps hundreds of thousands, of its own citizens and has assiduously sought to destroy the East's ancient Bengali culture. The White House still asked Congress to appropriate nearly $132 million in aid to Pakistan in the new fiscal year, in effect, says Democratic Representative Cornelius Gallagher, "subsidizing slaughter and spreading pestilence." (Not affected by the committee's vote is $100 million in direct emergency aid for the civil war's victims...