While that rule waspatronizing and often harsh, particularly during the war years of the 1930s and 1940s, it was notmarked by the brutality seen on themainland.

虽然这种携恩的统治通常十分严酷，特别是20世纪30、40年代的战争时期，但却不是大陆上那种明显的暴行。

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Known for their abduction of child soldiers and extreme brutality, the LRA sought refuge in neighboring south Sudan during the civil war.

以绑架童兵和极端残暴而闻名，圣主抵抗军内战期间在邻近的苏丹南部寻求庇护。

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The impasse over Cyprus, and the brutality of the war in Turkey's south-east (hundreds of villages razed, great numbers of people made homeless), combine to provide a formidable argument to Europeans who say that Turkey should not be allowed to join the European Union.

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We have had many chances of strangling in their infancy the forces of aggression and brutality which have now engulfed the world in war.

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Although immigration from North Africa is a century-long phenomenon (170, 000 Algerians and 130, 000 Moroccans were recruited to fight for France in the first world war), what sticks in the memory is the bitterness of the Algerian war of 1954-62, when Frenchmen and Algerians killed and tortured each other with enthusiastic brutality.

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