Word: executioner
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This letter is submitted as a means of protest against the United States involvement in the recent Congo tragedies. The press in this country has focused much attention on the inhumane torture and execution of white hostages by the rebels. To a lesser extent it has also mentioned the large...
However, relatively little has been said about the equally unjust execution of rebel prisoners by the white mercenaries. By its involvement, the United States is partially responsible here. The US action cannot be defended as "an act of mercy" unless mercy be defined as the butchering of one group in...
After the execution, the Simbas came back to the hostages' hut and joined them in singing Christmas carols.
Among the present cases that troubled the public conscience was the grisly one of Timothy Evans, who in 1950 was accused of killing his wife and daughter and was executed, although in court he named Prosecution Witness John Chris tie as the guilty man. Three years later, Christie was revealed...
Too often, Werth converts his justifiably high regard for the heroic Russian people into excuse-making for tyrannies of the Soviet state, such as the confiscation of all private radio receivers or the summary street-corner execution of suspected civilian traitors. The most egregious example is his treatment of the...