Drive into the hills and you soon come upon village after village marked at its entrance with the sign "THE MARTYRED VILLAGE OF —." These are villages where the Germans rounded up the residents and slaughtered them, then killed the livestock and salted the ground, with the intention that no one would live there again for generations to come.
It is a war fought largely beyond public scrutiny, and is visited upon small villages and urban neighborhoods almost nightly, when Iraqi and American Special Forces teams descend on homes in search of weapons and insurgents.
In October 2012, a more coordinated set of attacks was perpetrated upon Rohingya villages in nine townships throughout the state.
Maybe you know something of the struggles of the Miskito peoples of Nicaragua or, more harrowing, of the brutal genocide visited upon Mayan villages in the Guatemalan highlands.
According to Josephus: "When he had seized upon two villages, which were in the very midst of Idumea, Betaris, and Caphartobas, he slew above ten thousand of the people, and carried into captivity above a thousand, and drove away the rest of the multitude, and placed no small part of his own forces in them, who overran and laid waste the whole mountainous country".
Nude or topless (for women) sunbathing is discouraged or prohibited, and bikinis and other skimpy attire is frowned upon in villages.
Most recently, in March 2007, representatives of the indigenous Inuit people argued before the Inter-American Commission on Human Righthethat the United States is violating their rights by causing climate change that threatens their traditional way of life melting sea ice upon which their villages are built and threatening species upon which they depend for survival.
"I stumbled upon the village, which was in ruins and totally forgotten," Mr. Cioffi said.
The other one looks upon a village as an interdependent component, that recognizes that migration would take place.
The Americans come upon a village in the middle of a massacre and, with furious professionalism, cleanse it of ethnic cleansers.
