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Up to 200,000 political prisoners are kept as slaves in brutal labor camps, where they are lucky if they are not tortured to death.
Like Poland, which has a strong Christian self-image of national martyrdom, Korea has a history of being dominated by greater powers, mainly China, but also Russia, and, most notably since the brutal invasions of the sixteenth century, Japan.
The methods are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.
South Koreans no longer fear brutal dictatorship; they fear economic monopoly, and the resulting dearth of opportunity.
But the extreme heat will return, with cities facing particularly brutal conditions.
They are almost at the end of their brutal journey.
As a result, Syrian opposition groups believe that they have been left to confront Assad’s brutal regime alone.
No country has endured more brutal conflicts, hosted more kleptocratic and corrupt governments, or squandered more resource wealth.
Not only have policymakers in the eurozone insisted on repeating the blunders of the 1930s; they are poised to repeat them in a more brutal, more exaggerated, and more extended fashion.
The so-called War on Terror that began in 2001 has evolved into multiple brutal conflicts that are destabilizing the entire Middle East, eroding people’s freedoms, undermining their safety, and transforming the very nature of their societies.
But, with Bahrain’s social fault lines too wide to bridge, the regime willing to resort to brutal violence to crush any uprising, and the international community prepared to look the other way, the protesters in Manama should be prepared for defeat.
It was the collapse of these brutal systems in the wake of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab Spring of 2011 that created the current refugee crisis.
The West cannot accept the possibility that the Assad dictatorship, however brutal, may be the least bad option on offer.
They also see this victory as the main counter-weight to the memory of the USSR as a reign of brutal, unjustified violence.
Learning from RwandaGENEVA – How is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?
There, too, a committed democrat, Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), has become President after an extended period of corrupt and brutal military rule.
Consider the proliferation of jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State, which continues to seize territory in Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram, which has been engaged in a brutal campaign of abductions, bombings, and murder in Nigeria.
The Islamic Revolution has survived a brutal war with Iraq, economic sanctions, and decades of international pressure and isolation from the US.
And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.
A Middle East with a brutal, unfettered terrorist state at its center would be a direct threat to neighboring Europe’s safety.
Ferguson’s argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
Given the West’s record of horrendous warfare and often brutal imperialism, this seems unlikely.
They are doing this by the use of terrorism and by brutal intimidation of the civilian population and in defiance of the expressed and plain will of the international community.
More than seven months on from this brutal suppression, political activists continue to be imprisoned and tortured.
A revolution not only overthrows a repressive regime; it also destroys the old order, paving the way for a mostly brutal, if not bloody, fight for power to establish a new one – a process that affects foreign and domestic policy alike.
Nouri al-Maliki, the Shia prime minister, has been brutal, corrupt, and outrageously sectarian – deeply embarrassing his supporters in the United States and sometimes even his patrons in Iran.
Gun Control After NewtownNEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens.
When UNMIL was initiated in 2003, Liberia had just emerged from a brutal 14-year civil war, during which physical and sexual violence against women was rampant.
Many of the several thousand demonstrators at Shahbag are too young to have had personal experience of the killings that marked the Pakistani Army’s brutal, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to suppress the fledgling independence movement.
But whether a new woman will help to soften foreigners’ perception of Putin’s cynical diplomacy and increasingly brutal rule is open to question.
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