Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.

The atrocity was reportedly condemned strongly by South African president Thabo Mbeki and Winnie Mandela, among others, who openly spoke in favour of Marike de Klerk.

Upon hearing of this atrocity, the president of the United States, who is running for re-election, feels compelled to take drastic measures against drug trafficking ; his challenger, J. Robert Fowler, has rallied the public behind the administration's failures in the War on Drugs.

It is flanked by peace signs, which draw the attention towards Jones, who is apparently trying to wake up the students to the atrocity of the war.

On June 30, 2003, prosecutor Radosław J. Ignatiew announced that the investigation of " the mass murder of at least 340 Polish citizens of Jewish nationality in Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 " had discovered no living suspected perpetrators in the Jedwabne atrocity who had not already been brought to justice, and hence the IPN investigation was now closed.

" As execution by breaking on the wheel in France and some other countries was reserved for crimes of peculiar atrocity, roué came by a natural process to be understood to mean a man morally worse than a " gallows-bird ," a criminal who only deserved hanging for common crimes.

During the reign of Al-Muizz – who was the first Fatimid ruler of Egypt – the Islamic government was ambivalent in its treatment of the Copts, alternating sympathy and abuse with atrocity and brutality.

The first images after the attack were taken by Iranian journalists who later spread the pictures in Iranian newspapers ; a film of the atrocity was also shown worldwide via news programmes.

The same man committed a similar atrocity to the body of Yahya ibn Zayd of Gurgan ( or Jowzjan ), who was martyred in Juzjan and buried in Gurgan.

* Haints: Spectres who died of famine, genocide, or some other atrocity, and enter the underworld as Spectres driven by insatiable hunger.

It is claimed that the Arab leaders encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave by running away themselves ; then so frightened the leaderless mass, who had stayed behind, with atrocity propaganda that it fled as well and finally, it is claimed that they prevented a truce settlement in Haifa.

*: On September 3, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement: " In Russia, which is the co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, received reports with deep concern regarding the clemency of Baku Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of the murder of an Armenian officer with an extreme atrocity in Hungary in the 2004, as well as regarding the preceded decision of the Hungarian authorities to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

A number of U. S. and South Vietnamese authorities as well a number of journalists who investigated the events took the discoveries, along with other evidence, as proof that a large-scale atrocity had been carried out in and around Huế during its four-week occupation.

In 1993 he received the Mencken Award for best editorial / op-ed column for his New York Times exposé of " Nayirah ", the Kuwaiti diplomat's daughter who helped fake the Iraqi baby-incubator atrocity.

Lumey has been accused of more than one atrocity, including the execution without trial ( 9 July 1572 ) of the so-called " Martyrs of Gorkum ", Dutch Roman Catholic monks and priests who eventually secured sanctity ( 1867 ).

Leader of the opposition, Neil Kinnock, described the attack as an " awful atrocity " and said, " Even the people who say they support what the IRA calls its cause must be sickened by the way in which such death and injury is mercilessly inflicted ".

The worst atrocity took place in Urfa, where Ottoman troops burned the Armenian cathedral, in which 3, 000 Armenians had taken refuge, and shot at anyone who tried to escape.

From circumstances, two candidates have been proposed to have led the atrocity: Malcolm II of Scotland or Gilla Coemgáin's cousin Mac Bethad, who then became the only ruler of Moray.

" Bleed for Me " also plays in the background of the Dead Kennedys ' song " Kinky Sex ( Makes the World Go ' Round )," in which an aide for the Reagan White House arranges World War III on the phone with Margaret Thatcher, who moans erotically at every new atrocity ; this track may be a reference to the Thatchergate tape.

( Hopfgartner conceals essential truths not only about his complicity with atrocity, and not only about the authorship of articles signed by him but written by his assistant: Behind the door of his office at Yale, the lecherous professor is a sexual predator who exploits the vulnerability of young women in his classes.

William McCrea spoke on behalf of Democratic Unionist Party, saying, " sympathise with those who have been bereaved as a result of this terrible atrocity and our thoughts are with the many families who have been so cruelly robbed of their loved ones ".

He also mentions that when he began writing the series in 1999, he chose as villains " an obscure but fanatical and unpleasant gang who might, conceivably, be planning an atrocity on American soil "; but that by the time the novel was to be published in late 2001, Al-Qaeda was no longer obscure, so he chose a different group to use in the novella.

A black marine who agreed to be interviewed was unable to provide details of the outrages he had described at the hearing, but he called the Vietnam war " one huge atrocity " and " a racist plot.

Agrarian crimes of horrible atrocity had increased threefold.

The first major atrocity occurred when between 350 and 400 Filipino officers and NCOs were summarily executed after they had surrendered.

Háma had fallen defending the gate and the Orcs had hewed his body after he died, an atrocity that Théoden did not forget during the upcoming parley with Saruman.

The Nationals claimed that Guernica had been deliberately burned and dynamited by fleeing Republican forces, which had been using the city to store ammunition and explosives ; it was also claimed that reports of the extent of the bombing had been exaggerated and were atrocity propaganda.

Every year on " Black Monday ", the Dublin citizens would march out of the city to the spot where the atrocity had happened and raise a black banner in the direction of the mountains to challenge the Irish to battle in a gesture of symbolic defiance.

According to Holocaust historian, Michael R. Marrus ( The Holocaust in History ), until the book appeared, little information about the genocide of the Jews by Nazi Germany had " reached the wider public " in both the West and the East, and even in pertinent scholarly studies it was " scarcely mentioned or only in passing as one more atrocity in a particularly cruel war.

Ratingen had been the site of an atrocity in April 1945.

Since the Nazi war effort had largely stripped the civil population of able-bodied men for service in the military, the victims of the atrocity were primarily old men, women, and children.

In 2005, a professor of Ethnic studies at University of Colorado at Boulder, Ward Churchill, came under severe fire for an essay he had written about the September 11, 2001 attacks in which he argued that U. S. foreign policy was partly to blame for the atrocity.

The only atrocity he was especially notorious for was his persecution of artists of any kind ( painters, musicians, dancers and others ), but he was mostly focused on musicians and composers that had been his rivals before the war, though even then he preferred to just have them permanently maimed so as to be unable to ever practice their arts again, as a form of lifelong mental torture, instead of actually killing them outright.

The PSNI has stated that it had no reason to suspect Reavey of any crime, let alone of masterminding the atrocity ...

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York.

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar, Alcuin of York.

A great deal of violence took place, but the " Gulf War " per se did not ; rather than belittling the effects of this violence, this means that the Gulf War should be seen not as a war but as " an atrocity masquerading as war " ( Merrin 1994, 447 ).

It is widely considered to be the single worst atrocity suffered by Australian servicemen during the Second World War.

Walker immediately condemned what he labelled " an unspeakable atrocity " which was " a crime very much against humanity ".

Wexford was the scene of another infamous atrocity, when Parliamentarian troops broke into the town while negotiations for its surrender were ongoing, and sacked it, killing about 2000 soldiers and 1500 townspeople and burning much of the town.

His reporting did much to inspire Pablo Picasso to record the atrocity for posterity in his massive painting.