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When faced with the slaughter of civilians, it can no longer pretend that it does not know.
Indian Muslims will never forget the Gujarat massacre of just a few years ago, where a BJP governor seemed to wink and connive in the slaughter of countless Muslims.
In short, while no one condones violence against innocents like that suffered by the victims at the Boston Marathon, Americans are far more aware than they were 12 years ago of their own slaughter of innocents around the world.
Amid the chaos of Mobutu’s downfall, a catastrophic regional war drawing in forces from Angola, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe erupted, fueled by competition for access to minerals, causing the death or displacement of millions – indeed, slaughter on a scale unseen since World War II.
When describing his conquest of Chanderi in 1528, Babar offers gruesome details of the gory slaughter of many “infidels” but just a few sentences later he talks at length about Chanderi’s lakes, flowing streams, and sweet water.
The capture of the camp leaves 18,000 refugees at risk of slaughter, unable to access food, water, and vital services.
Not the kind of genocidal slaughter conducted by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s.
The Prion PuzzleZURICH – The outbreak of mad cow disease in the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to the slaughter of 3.7 million cows and severely damaged the British cattle industry, began insidiously.
The international community, focused on the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, took days to condemn the mass slaughter in Baga.
The animals are not stunned prior to slaughter.
A detailed analysis of the killing method used in Taiji shows it to be far removed from accepted methods for slaughter in the developed world.
The international community, whose response to the unfolding slaughter in Rwanda was to withdraw peacekeepers and evacuate expatriates, should not avert its eyes from its moral and political failure.
For example, among the Luhya in Western Kenya, it is not uncommon for Muslims to slaughter animals during funerals, even though, strictly speaking, there is no such provision in Islam.
If maintaining their authority and local autonomy is the price that must be paid to end, or at least limit the slaughter, Russia should agree.
But to start them, a cease-fire must is needed as the first step, to be swiftly followed by the Chechens publicly dissociating themselves from terrorist acts such as the Moscow slaughter.
As the world watches Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi slaughter his own people, we should remember the human cost of international indifference.
That happened in India in 1947, when the British left, Pakistan broke away, and roughly a million Hindus and Muslims died in mutual slaughter.
Of course, the Western powers must be applauded for their efforts, with the support of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to prevent a slaughter of Libya’s civilian population.
In November 1975, seven months after the Khmer Rouge had commenced its genocidal slaughter, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously said to Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan: “You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them.
Many Sunnis, for example, accuse America of favoritism: the United States intervenes to protect Kurds, Yazidis, and Christians in northern Iraq, they say, but does little to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Sunnis in Syria.
The kind of exalted patriotism, especially when combined with warrior pride, that is still entirely normal in the United States, was for a long time associated with mass slaughter.
There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use “more banal ways to slaughter his people.”
The problem is surely the slaughter, not the methods used.
Domestically, there is fear of “spontaneous” massacres like the slaughter in December of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut.
This week’s slaughter of schoolchildren in Peshawar could be the tipping point.
These, however, were never allowed to degenerate into the outright communal slaughter that the war in Sri Lanka has often produced.
Remember Srebrenica and the slaughter of thousands of Muslims under the supposed protection of the UN?
When the first Soviet soldiers came up our little street in the Western suburbs of Berlin, we knew that the great slaughter was coming to an end.
Syria’s agony looks like it can end only in sectarian slaughter.
The Party for the Animals, the only animal-rights party to be represented in a national parliament, has proposed a law requiring that all animals be stunned before slaughter.
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