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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.
The lowest number of combatant casualties occurred in 2003, with just 20,000 killed.
From over 12,000 civilians deliberately killed in civil wars in 1997 and 1998, a decade later, this figure stands at 4,000.
Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.
So, we have fewer conflicts today in which fewer people get killed.
Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
He was later killed while in custody.
So a couple of years ago, we had a scandal which killed about 80 people around the world, because of contaminants that crept into the heparin supply chain.
The problem was that it killed more people.
Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.
She grew up in Sudan, in Southern Sudan, for 20 years of war, where it killed one million people and displaced five million refugees.
A Congolese woman, who was telling me about how her children saw their father killed in front of them and saw her raped in front of them and mutilated in front of them, and her children saw their nine-year-old sibling killed in front of them, how they're doing okay right now.
It was like vegetable jerky, and killed all of them.
And that's not the only leopards that were being killed through that period.
BJ: And you have to know that, when a male lion is killed, it completely disrupts the whole pride.
So we've estimated that between 20 [and] 30 lions are killed when one lion is hanging on a wall somewhere in a far-off place.
The children were killed on the spot.
The person was killed by stabs in the heart, but they just deposited the knife by putting it through one of the eyeballs.
He's been paralyzed from the waist down since he was 13, in a car crash that killed his father and his sister.
And tragically, in 1999, when she was in Colombia working with the U'wa people, focused on preserving their culture and language, she and two colleagues were abducted and tortured and killed by the FARC.
In the 1970s, under the Pol Pot regime, the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, and they focused and targeted the elites and the intellectuals, the artists, the dancers.
I was only nine when my grandfather first described to me the horrors he witnessed six years earlier when human stampedes killed 39 people in our hometown of Nashik, India.
They were all linked to the three kids that got killed.
Khaled Saeed was killed in June 2010.
Get those who killed this guy.
During that time the war was happening and his mother was killed when he was 15.
And the first paper is a standard scientific paper, presenting evidence, "Iridium layer at the K-T boundary, and potassium argon dated crater in Yucatan, indicate that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
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