The one certainty is that the 38-year civil conflict is about to enter its bloodiest phase to date. |
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His was a worm's-eye view of one of the bloodiest episodes of the 20th century. |
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Verdun for example was the bloodiest battle in military history, a black hole where the armies of two nations were swallowed up. |
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It will be engraved in the memory of its children in future as the bloodiest war in history. |
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The appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century. |
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It ushered in an unquiet century of warfare, the bloodiest since the thirty years war which had destroyed central Europe three centuries earlier. |
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As the bloodiest century in human history drew to a close, historians began to total up the casualties. |
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December 2, 1993, marked the end of one of the longest, bloodiest and most corrupt manhunts in history. |
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Exactly 85 years ago the armistice was signed ending at the end of the Great War, the bloodiest conflict in history. |
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Perhaps most gripping is the scorched earth surrounding Khe Sanh, site of the bloodiest siege in the war. |
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They fought in what was one of the biggest single day air battles of the Second World War and one of the bloodiest. |
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So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars. |
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His father was stabbed in the chest, and his mother then endured the longest and bloodiest struggle as she bravely put up a barehanded fight against her attacker. |
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Today's next stop was at Passchendaele, the scene of one of Canada's muddiest and bloodiest battles of the First World War. |
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As for the old canard that Europe's bloodiest wars were the wars of religion, no serious student of the carnage of the twentieth century can credit that. |
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Anger boiled over last week after snipers attacked protesters in the bloodiest violence in Ukraine's post-Soviet history. |
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In the midst of the bloodiest of wars, he had died in one of the bloodiest campaigns of all. |
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That admission came at a time when Canada suffered its bloodiest week in combat in 50 years. |
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The Somme was the bloodiest battle of this conflict of unprecedented violence. |
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The airborne was an elite unit and it took on some of the bloodiest and toughest missions. |
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The decisions taken in Copenhagen closed one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters in the history of Europe. |
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The lyrics were inspired by one of the bloodiest men in recent history: Joseph Kony. |
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Sixty-five years have passed since the end of the bloodiest war in history of Europe and the whole mankind. |
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In the years that followed, Europe witnessed the bloodiest war in its history. |
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It was the briefest and bloodiest massacre in the continent's recent history. |
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In 1971, Kingston Penitentiary experienced one of the bloodiest prison riots in Canada's history. |
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The News commented that this engagement was one of the bloodiest of the War. |
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Two days before I returned to school, I found myself in the middle of one of the bloodiest, most efficient genocides in the history of the world. |
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Indonesias 1966 military coup was one of the bloodiest in the twentieth century. |
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Today, the former Yugoslavia has disintegrated in a series of the bloodiest wars this continent has seen in half a century. |
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The region's bloodiest conflict begins, characterized by a new phenomenon ethnic cleansing. |
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McKenna here proved to remain an eagle Scout in the very best sense amidst the bloodiest and most harrowing fight in the war. |
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It is one of life's ironies that their namesakes found themselves fighting to defend that country nearly 60 years later at one of the First World War's bloodiest battles. |
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As of this writing, Ukraine is drawing to a close the bloodiest day of a 72-hour pogrom. |
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This abhorrent act of violence, which marks the bloodiest attack on civilians since the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement in 2002, is another clear violation of that Agreement. |
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July 25th, 1944, will remain as one of the bloodiest dates in the history of WWII: on that day 362 men were killed or mortally wounded, more than 840 injured. |
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At the end of the bloodiest century in human history, the international community adopted a treaty creating the world's first independent and permanent International Criminal Court. |
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The international community would not yet seem to have grasped the scope of the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Iraq in the course of the conflict, which has already become among the bloodiest of the past 50 years. |
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A brilliantly conceived, superbly executed romp through Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy with Miller interpreting all the characters through the anarchical lens of television's superheros of irreverence, The Simpsons. |
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It was the bloodiest physically because of the number of its victims, both civil and military and it was the bloodiest in a moral sense too, because of the will to exterminate and the ideology of hatred that dominated it. |
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In this treaty, Germany, as part of the Central Powers, accepted defeat by the Allies in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. |
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More than 800 men lay dead or wounded following the battle, making Chippawa one of the bloodiest and costliest military battles to have taken place during the War. |
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Verneuil was one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War, described by the English as a second Agincourt. |
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Verneuil was one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years' War, described by the English as a second Agincourt. |
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Conflict diamonds fuel some of the bloodiest conflicts in Africa. |
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In late July 1809 the regiment took part in the Battle of Talavera, one of the bloodiest and most bitter of engagements during the war. |
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Founded by the Vikings in the ninth century, Arklow was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the 1798 rebellion. |
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This was the bloodiest battle of the war, and has been called the war's turning point. |
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It may have been the bloodiest and most violent period in Icelandic history. |
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The genocide in Rwanda and Burundi, the bloodiest conflict of the last fifty years, was essentially a war of ressentiment, as were the wars in the former Yugoslavia. |
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The real causes of this war, which remains the bloodiest international conflict in Latin American history, are still highly debated. |
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This battle is still the bloodiest ever fought in the state and had the highest number of American casualties of any battle in the war. |
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Her fate was all the more harrowing because the IRA murder squad that came to kill her dragged her away from her screaming, crying children in a rundown flats complex in 1972, the bloodiest year of the conflict. |
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In June 1941, the pact collapsed as Germany turned to attack to the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. |
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Some of the battles took place in Yorkshire, such as those at Wakefield and Towton, the latter of which is known as the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. |
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The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history. |
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McClellan and Lee fought at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest single day in United States military history. |
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At least 1100 people were wounded in what government doctor V Shanmugarajah said was the bloodiest day he had seen between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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