Highway robbers, rapists and murderers in the rebel commanders' ranks met swift justice, usually by public execution.
One prominent pro-government writer, Bassam al-Qadi, took the unusual, risky step of publicly blaming loyalist gunmen for the killings and accusing the government of "turning a blind eye to criminals and murderers in the name of 'defending the homeland.' " Images of the killings in and around Baniyas have transfixed Syrians.
And it should come as no surprise that, though there are plenty of creeps here, a lot of these men and women exude a noir glamour that Jean Genet identified instinctively: "I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty — a sunken beauty".
To believe this, you have to believe not only that a few thousand non-violent protestors are deeply straining a police force with 35,000 officers, but that all the rapists and murderers in the outer boroughs are saying, "Hey, the police are busy chasing hippies!
The composer who gave sinister voice to an underworld of pimps, prostitutes and murderers in "The Threepenny Opera" and set Freudian anxiety to song in "Lady in the Dark" is the inspiration for "Here Lies Jenny," the hourlong nightcap of a musical diversion, which opened yesterday and can be seen from Thursdays through Saturdays at 11 p.m. at the Zipper Theater.
"Although the rapists and murderers in the December 16 , 2012 case have been put through the judicial system, the issue of women's safety still hangs in the balance," she writes in the The Asian Age.
In a sense, the rioters and murderers in Libya and Egypt and now elsewhere are demanding that someone stop the trolls they are choosing to get heated up about.
"Now that the US government is banning those torturers and murderers involved in the Magnitsky case from coming to the US, instead of prosecuting any of the key people involved, the Russians are retaliating by imposing their own sanctions on US officials prosecuting Russian arms dealers and drug smugglers," Mr Browder said.
A Soviet leader tells American Communists in 1919 to expose President Woodrow Wilson "as a hypocrite and murderer, in order to discredit him with the masses".
And, unlike the murderers in the previous books, the man killing refugees who have found sanctuary as agricultural workers is a new kind of villain — a professional assassin — so the police hardly know what to make of such an anomaly.
The following year she portrayed a town gossip and murderer in La Cerémonie, for which she received a French César Award.
