War
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On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of
war
, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
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Today I want to talk to you about ethnic conflict and civil
war.
This quickly escalated into a five-day
war
between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.
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.
They exclude people that died as a consequence of civil war, from hunger or disease, for example.
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