Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn.
During the war, Germany pillaged millions of artworks, books and other cultural valuables from the nations it conquered.
After the Communist government fell, in 1992, Gul Agha and his men had taken part in the civil war that pillaged Kandahar.
Its subject is the participation of Poles in the so-called third phase of the Holocaust, when Poles denounced their Jewish neighbours (Neighbours is the title of the first of Gross's books about the relations between Poles and Jews during the second world war) to pillage their property.
Long before the term collateral damage was identified as a cost of war, raping and pillaging was just an exaggerated case of "boys being boys".
Many have brought up WWII as an example of how the Nazis forced the Greek central bank to provide loans to Germany during World War II after pillaging the country and massacring Greeks, leaving countless orphans and a destitute and starving population in its wake.
This is while France, England, Spain, Portugal, these sovereign nations were at war with each other, funding their wars by raping, pillaging, decimating the cultures of South America, stripping them of their wealth, gold.
The judge read him his rights and the charges: three counts of war crimes, including murder and pillaging.
Personally, I have never heard of a war that has systematically avoided pillaging.
The announcement came on the fourth day of an African trip devoted to Darfur by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who declared on taking office in January that ending the killing and pillaging in that war-ravaged area of western Sudan was his top international priority.
