Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini's demagoguery notwithstanding, even after that slaughter, the total number of the Shah's victims simply cannot be compared to the millions killed by Hitler and Stalin; nor can the tenor of his regime be likened to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union. Even among contemporary despots, the Shah is not the worst. One prominent member of the International Commission of Jurists classifies the Shah as in a "second league" of tyrants, below Uganda's Idi Amin, Cambodia's Pol Pot and Central African Emperor Jean Bokassa...
Most authorities doubted that the students would physically harm the hostages, or that Khomeini would tolerate their torture or death. Says Thomas Ricks, an Iranian expert at Georgetown University: "Nothing in Islam could justify the slaughter of the hostages, and it is unthinkable that the captors would do so, unless they were threatened by an outside attack." Professor Hamid Algar of the University of California at Berkeley notes that the Shari'a permits both the exchange of hostages and their unilateral release by captors. He also observes, however, that "one tradition is that hostages may be kept permanently...
Easily the most lopsided match in history since Germany invaded Poland, Brown devastated UPenn, 8-0. After jumping ahead to a 3-0 lead at halftime, the Bruins turned it on at the start of the second period. Bruin senior Dora Herrera led the slaughter by registering a hat trick in less than seven minutes...
...Lebanese Muslims and their P.L.O. allies, Fauntroy declared that they "considered themselves men of peace. We have no reason to think they are opposed to nonviolence." That must have come as a surprise to most Lebanese, who have witnessed the Muslims and their Israeli-supported Christian foes slaughter each other by the thousands...
...minute monologue from Wotan, is the ideological lynchpin of the whole cycle, it rightly is the first to go in a conception of the Ring as entertainment. Walkure also benefits from the absence of Sellars' sometimes-intrusive narration. The presentation races through Siegfried, barely pausing for Siegfried to slaughter a garbage-bag Fafner, and into Gotterdammerung...