GOMA, Congo — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face to face with the consequences of the brutality in eastern Congo on Tuesday afternoon when she met a Congolese woman who had been gang-raped while she was eight months pregnant.
As a direct consequence of this brutality and the failure to punish it, journalists are afraid and censor themselves.
That is not because of "the culture of poverty", whatever that means; it is, as Lyndon Johnson said, "solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice".Now, fair-minded people can argue about what to do about that.
In any event, violations of Syrian sovereignty would be the direct consequence of the Syrian state's brutality, not the imperialism of outsiders.
And there seems little doubt that the endemic rage you can read into Jamaica's crime figures (down, to some extent, in recent years) is a direct consequence of slavery's brutality and the confused struggle of a post-colonial nation: the crack cocaine epidemic, fuelling self-loathing and irrational anger, that blighted the countryalways seemed like an expression of this.
Gary Haugen, a onetime United Nations investigator, has witnessed some of the most awful consequences of brutality, from the killing fields of Rwanda and the old South Africa's apartheid system to murders by the Philippine army.
As is clear from their moving Victim Personal Statements, and unsurprisingly, the consequences of the murder, its brutality and the publicity, have had a severe and lasting impact on those close to Lee Rigby.
Stephens Due suffered permanent eye damage that resulted in her wearing sunglasses at all times for the rest of her life, giving her and anyone who saw her a reminder of the consequences of police brutality.
What was the purpose of the brutality?
Thoughts of the brutality of the Saints' bounty system were shelved.
