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...since-Bainimarama was hunted by armed rebels through a jungle-choked valley behind Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks. After the barracks were retaken, loyalists rounded up CRW soldiers regardless of whether they had taken part in the mutiny. Selesitino and the other soldiers allegedly fell victim to a violent paroxysm of revenge...
...late February, India experienced a paroxysm of violence between Hindus and Muslims. A group of Muslims in the western state of Gujarat burned 58 Hindus alive on a train. In response, Hindus went on a three-day rape, pillage and murder rampage that claimed the lives of 427 people. It was the worst violence between the two communities since riots in Bombay in 1993 claimed 800 lives...
...that mythological decade of cultural madness-imploded Dec. 6, 1969 at the Altamont Speedway. There, the promise of Woodstock and the Age of Aquarius mutated into a frenzied paroxysm of violence, leaving 850 injured and four dead. From Nov. 3 through Nov. 9, the Brattle Theater will be showing a newly restored and re-edited version of Gimme Shelter-the completely enthralling and horrifying documentary that captured the day's ferocious chaos...
...watch Philadelphia on cable TV. See who salutes, and measure the bounce that the Bush-Cheney ticket - a dreamy promise of a return to the Bush family's salad days - gets in the polls. Average is 6-10 percent, anything more or less will throw Gore into a paroxysm of calculation...
...paroxysm of killing in Rwanda took place on a massive scale. Between 500,000 and one million Rwandans were slaughtered in less than three months. No gas chambers or concentrations camps were used; the killing was done with machine guns and machetes, in classrooms and churches. Neighbors turned on old friends and colleagues targeted co-workers. There were no elite extermination squads; among both the victims and the perpetrators were the young and the elderly...