atrocity

The Nineth Nanak, Guru Tegh Bahadur Sacrificed his head to protect weak and defenseless people against atrocity.

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.

The relentless work of Albornoz ushered in a decade of warfare and atrocity culminating in the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause who's entire population was executed by the Papal forces while paving the way of Urban V to Rome ( 1367 ).

required Although José María Aznar and his ministers were quick to accuse ETA of the atrocity, soon afterwards it became apparent that the bombing was the work of an extremist Islamic group linked to Al-Qaeda.

With the French intent on reconquest and re-enslavement of the colony's black population, the war became a bloody struggle of atrocity and attrition.

The most high profile atrocity of the war took place in Dublin in November 1920, and is still known as Bloody Sunday.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

Osborn defines an atrocity as the murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners.

One critic called it a " gigantic, ruinous gadget "; another charged Mitterrand with " despotism " for inflicting Paris with the " atrocity ".

Page described the performance as " pretty shambolic ", while Plant characterised it as an " atrocity ".

* 1961 – thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.

The relentless work of Albornoz was capped after a decade of warfare and atrocity with the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause whose entire population was executed by Papal forces while paving the way of Pope Urban to Rome in 1367.

" 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.

Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age.

Perhaps the most notorious atrocity was a killing contest between two Japanese officers as reported in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and the English language Japan Advertiser.

* Online Documentary: The Nanking Atrocities A master's degree thesis that delves into the atrocity

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.

The English at the time milked the alleged atrocity for all it was worth in a long drawn-out diplomatic incident.

In a recently published letter to Israeli journalist, writer, and translator Shlomo Even-Shoshan dated May 17, 1965, Anatoli Kuznetsov commented on the Babi Yar atrocity:

This section is referred to in the book as a " sometimes funny, sometimes bizarre history of thoughts passing away in the atrocity of that darkness " ( House of Leaves 252 ).

World War II atrocity in Jedwabne.

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.