Among many false reports of German atrocities — rapes and crucifixions in Belgium that did not, amid much actual brutality, occur — this was the real thing, irrefutable proof of German "frightfulness," to use a favorite word of Allied headline writers.
The Charleston of aristocrats (or "bourbons," as they used to say), with its beautiful downtown architecture and carriage horses, and, lately, hip restaurants and thriving music scene, has always enjoyed a sheltered reputation, built in part on the assumption that the inland part of South Carolina, the piedmont, was where such violence and brutality occurred.
This same brutality occurred frequently during the Industrial Revolution, a time of environmental degradation, worker abuse and widespread inequality.
As security was further tightened and forces increased in presence the following day, protests against police brutality occurred in front of the Eastern Avenue temporary detention centre, where nearly 500 arrested individuals were kept from the previous day's riots.
Pillay also shed some light on the brutalities occurring in Iraq, saying her office had received reports of militants rounding up and killing Iraqi army soldiers and 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul.
If your eyes follow the ball, you see a fair amount of fighting, but the real action, brutality-wise, occurs as players who don't have the ball fight for position in the prime real estate in front of the goal.
Not until a week later would the world learn what brutality had occurred in Centro do Meio.
Nevertheless, major newspapers have devoted long editorials to searching examinations of what it is in the society that permits such brutality to occur.
Our family's native title claim on the area did not succeed and, to this day, the site is not recognised as an Aboriginal place, let alone for the brutality that occurred there.
