Word: inhumanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer was quick, final. The local peasantry was called together at the new brick Public Security Station to see Liu standing before a Circuit Tribunal. A People's Procurator charged him with being a "reactionary." The Procurator asked the assembled crowd: "Comrades, what do we do with these inhuman counterrevolutionaries, these criminals, bandits, secret agents of capitalism, and organizers of Taoist sects?" Voices cried: "Kill them! Kill them!" The peasants understood from the accents of the words that the response had been made by people from another part of the country, but they took their cue. "Kill him! Kill...
Terrorist Lo had to warn his comrades, as recently as last July, against "boundless magnanimity." He regaled the National People's Congress with horror stories of the resisters still around, then dramatically asked: "Deputies, can any one of you be tolerant with these heinous and inhuman counterrevolutionaries? Can any one who has heard of such horrible conspiracies still comfort himself with the feeling that counter-revolutionaries are nothing but 'a few small fish that cannot create waves?' " Back in 1951, when Lo's army of terrorists set to work, the fish were many and the waves...
...Espectador was fined $2,500 for asking editorially whether it was true that 2,000 political prisoners were being held under inhuman conditions in the steaming plains of eastern Colombia; El Correo, published in Medellin, was rapped with an equal fine for an article regarded as disrespectful to constituted authority and the armed forces...
...boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible...
...then putting our honorable generals and admirals on trial in Nuremberg, hanging and imprisoning them for merely obeying orders like good soldiers, and calling it justice. Ach, terrible, inhuman. And what were you Americans doing while we fought to keep the Bolsheviks out of Europe? You were bombing our cities, killing our women and children." Glances of bitter experience mixed with the Germans' current attitude of mature forgiveness for our sins assured silence for Professor Glaubich's further dialectic...