Word: starvationã
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...leading up to the Casement’s 1912 report, Goodman deploys his sources gradually, amassing eyewitness accounts alongside official reports. Goodman cites descriptions of gang rape, the torture of children (by burning their hands and feet until they betrayed the whereabouts of their parents), and deliberate regimes of starvation??€”all tactics to maintain an atmosphere of terror in which the Indians would not dare to fall short of the rubber-collecting quotas...
Nearly everyone has at some point in his or her life experienced hunger. I’m not referring to genuine, involuntary starvation??€”a real concern in many parts of the world—but rather something along the lines of the pre-Sunday brunch munchies, when an unpleasantly grumbling stomach signals anticipation for that bite of Veritaffles at noon...
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