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New recruits were forced to swear an oath “to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be
killed
by the sword,” and to obey their master’s will without question.
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In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been
killed
since 1983.
Hundreds have been killed, and more than 100,000 displaced, including many ethnic Uzbeks who fled to neighboring Uzbekistan.
The number of people
killed
in civil wars also is much lower today than it was a decade ago or two.
The highest level of deaths on the battlefield was recorded between 1998 and 2001, with about 80,000 soldiers, policemen and rebels
killed
every year.
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