Word: bloodiest
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...bloodiest 24-hour periods since the recent round of violent racial unrest began in September 1984, and it pushed the total number of deaths to more than 1,300. At least 30 blacks were killed in confrontations with police, marking a sharp increase in the rate of killings just three weeks after State President P.W. Botha lifted a state of emergency, declaring that such incidents had diminished...
...reader may think that this whole scheme is quite ludicrous. However, pause and reflect for a minute that from ancient history to the present, Jerusalem--the holiest of all cities--has been a motivating factor behind some of the bloodiest wars on the globe...
...Pretoria, meanwhile, a high-court judge issued the conclusions of a government-ordered inquiry into the country's bloodiest confrontation in 25 years. Last March South African police opened fire on a highway procession of 4,000 blacks, killing 20. In a report to South Africa's Parliament, Justice Donald Kannemeyer accused the police of having fabricated portions of their account of the shooting outside the town of Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth...
Allende retains her mellifluous style even when writing about the torture and repression which accompanied South America's bloodiest coup. In one beautiful passage she describes the through of Alba Trueba, Esteban's leftist granddaughter. By day Alba...
...attacking the Sri Maha Bodhiya, the site of a sacred 2,200-year-old bo tree said to have grown from a sapling of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment, the guerrillas seemed almost eager to provoke retaliation. It did not take long. In the bloodiest strike, assailants boarded a ferry off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, near Jaffna, and hacked 39 Tamils to death with axes, swords and knives. The Sri Lankan navy has denied accusations that it was involved in the slaughter; the same day, police surprised Tamil rebels hiding in a cave in the Eastern...