The censors were part of a much broader, more sinister system — the quasi-benevolent pole of a spectrum whose other extremities brought violence, assassination and almost casual brutality to apartheid's adversaries.
In the continuum of political violence — assassination, torture, terrorism, and war, reading from small-scale to large — international law deems war alone to be permissible, albeit only in extreme circumstances, and tries to tame it with rules and conventions.
But extremist violence and assassinations continue, and civilian control of the country is weak.
He was elected president of Guatemala in March 1974 in an election accompanied by violence, political assassinations, and accusations of fraud.
Rivalry between far left and far right helped pitch Turkey into an orgy of street violence and assassinations, which led to the generals' last coup, in 1980.
He criticized the mindlessly bellicose rhetoric of the ultranationalist right and opposed the radicals who used revolutionary violence and assassinations to achieve their ends.
At the gallery the concept is less vague, as Ms. Piper cites specific instances of racial violence, political assassinations and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Even in a country long accustomed to political violence including assassinations, civilian massacres and the extermination of thousands of leftist activists, the attack on the court by the now defunct M-19 rebel movement and the government's heavy-handed response stand out because the events occurred in the very heart of Colombian democracy.
National crises often arise from acts of violence; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. prompted a whole class of machine-woven tapestries showing the three men joined in some heavenly realm beyond the reach of mortal foes.
In the weeks that followed, the Committee for the Relatives of the Disappeared, a human rights organization known by its Spanish acronym COFADEH, documented a major uptick in political violence: 30 assassinations, 232 wounded or injured, and over 1,085 detained, in addition to people who had been displaced, gone into hiding, or disappeared.
COMMENT FROM INGRID BONILLA: After seeing fellow Americans CELEBRATING state violence, an assassination!
