At less than ten years old, as a brutal civil conflict raged in Sudan, his mother was killed and his sisters were raped by Arab militiamen.
However, by the time Bashir's regime signed a deal to end that conflict, in 2005, another brutal battle was raging in Darfur, the vast, mainly desert province in Sudan's west.
But his ambition is to transcend the specifics of time and place, to write a meditation on literature itself and its ability to reveal the raging, brutal, brilliant beast that is mankind itself.
For Emmanuel de Mérode, the Belgian head of Virunga, himself shot and wounded by militia in 2014, the two killings in Africa's oldest park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were yet another atrocity in the brutal wildlife wars raging through southern Sudan, the Central African Republic, Congo and parts of Uganda, Chad and Tanzania.
Such mass dumping grounds continue to be a gruesome feature on the Mexican landscape, where a brutal drug war rages in parts of the country, and where disappearances are common.
Elsa Corp, 26, was killed by David Patrick Clifford in a brutal, drug-induced, psychotic rage in a Melbourne hotel in 2010.
Rather than developing or resolving the action, Millhauser chooses simply to portray the brutal daily presence of rage and distrust in a community discovering itself and unsure what to think, yet unable to avert its eyes.
On-screen, Vin Diesel's default setting can be described as coiled rage and brutal efficiency.
"This is brutal stuff from Ireland," rages Seamus Scanlan.
Brutal frontier guerrilla war raged from 1830 to the mid-1840s, inthesified in the later years by the use of paramilitary Native Police.
