All parties then proceeded to loot Congo's minerals, as innumerable local militias slaughtered and pillaged.
The magnificent buildings of antiquity fell into disrepair, or were pillaged for their contents.
And this time no villages will have to be pillaged to pay for it.
French colonial troops raped and pillaged their way through German cities in a fashion the Red Army would have admired.
Marauding French and English soldiers routinely pillaged and raped, and sparked riots.
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The complaints often invoke images of segregation, devastated ecology pillaged by greedy capitalists or starving children denied sustenance by a de-funded welfare state.
The militants burned and pillaged their homes and businesses, and today they are living in migrant camps in Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere.
Ekwoge Enang Abwe runs a project to try to safeguard the creatures of the Ebo Forest: the gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys that are pillaged for bushmeat.
The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
But, if austerity means simply holding the wage levels of the public sector down while public sector debt is diluted by inflation, as savers and the private sector are pillaged, then the doomsayers will be proved correct.
It must persuade Americans to continue to believe in a system that in the past 20 years, he believes, under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, has been ruthlessly pillaged by the few at the expense of the many.
Myhrvold is of Nordic extraction, and he looks every bit the bearded, fair-haired Viking not so much the tall, ferocious kind who raped and pillaged as the impish, roly-poly kind who stayed home by the fjords trying to turn lead into gold.
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