It's not the brutality -- they were extremely brutal murders, but like you say, there have been more brutal murders.
The trouble is that O'Mara, as well as being extremely brutal, is thick as two short night sticks.
The counterinsurgency strategy was extremely brutal, involving mass arrests and detentions, forced relocations, torture, indiscriminate killings, and many large-scale massacres of civilians.
I've been working in conflict areas for the past decade, so they weren't the only ones receiving death threats whom I've met, or have been killed, but the way it happened was extremely brutal and cruel.
"The acceleration and braking is extremely brutal".
"The region where Boko Haram is operating are extremely brutal areas," he said.
Liberia's civil war was extremely brutal, with one President Samuel Doe being tortured to death on videocamera.
"Throughout history, the human experience has been extremely brutal," says Andrew Cohen in our book, "Be The Change".
When it was pointed out that one member of the division was charged with the killing of 58 Jews, he said, "The war on the eastern front was extremely brutal on both sides.
Friday's experience was extremely brutal — unlike old age or sickness, where you can "prepare for death" — particularly given the fact that the bodies are not always recognizable and that some families only received confirmation of the death after several days of waiting.
