This intensifies the risk that Guinea could fall victim to the sort of brutal war both Liberia and Sierra Leone have already suffered.
Yet the past ten years have shown that Bosnia's problem is not just the legacy of a brutal war, but also a culture of deference.
There are also more than 50 photographs, portraits, paintings and sketches documenting the life and times of the man who united a nation after a brutal war.
When appeasement was inevitably followed by a most horrific, brutal war, we saw a different kind of optimism, the kind that rolls up its sleeves, defies the odds and makes its own luck.
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a brutal war in which both sides suffered enormously, with up to 30, 000 people killed and a million forced to flee their homes.
If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
The Mbeki and Zuma camps were still gripped by the mindset which had developed during the brutal apartheid war, and the Cold War.
Intel's admission came a day after AMD warned investors Monday that its first-quarter sales will fall short of its earlier targets, another sign of the brutal price war between the two companies.
Israel has said it wants to stay out of the brutal Syria war, but could inadvertently be drawn in as it tries to bolster its deterrence and prevent sophisticated weapons from reaching Hezbollah.
This year could bring a brutal price war.
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Sri Lanka's army defeated separatist Tamil rebels in 2009 after a brutal 26-year war, but it is the final phase of that war which has come under most scrutiny by rights activists.
Michael Davidson, a heart specialist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and a tester of the combo pill, predicts "a brutal three-way war" for market share among Vytorin, Lipitor and AstraZeneca's Crestor.
Their experience of the American military juggernaut in the first few days of the war was brutal, and many among the British forces now grumble that they have been left to patch up the damage left behind.
Many have criticised America for tolerating brutal regimes that help it in the war on terror, notably that of Kirgizstan's neighbour, Uzbekistan.
As the war has dragged on with brutal street fighting and air attacks by the Syrian military, many civilians have been killed or injured.
In Sierra Leone, whose war is perhaps even more brutal than Congo's and also involves neighbours and the lure of diamonds, the peacekeepers' goal is harder to define.
Sayyed Hassan Firouzabadi, chief of Iran's Joint Armed Forces, said Iranian soldiers were willing to die as they did in the brutal eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, according to the state-run Fars News Agency.
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The Iran-Iraq war was one of the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century, an attritional stalemate that took the lives of an estimated one million people.
It took driving short term interest rates above 20% in a brutal monetary tightening that for a time seemed like a war in which Volcker looked and acted like a commanding general.
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Moussavi himself has quite a number of nasty skeletons in his closet from his years as the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), with his brutal suppression of dissident movements, ideological purging of the universities and so on.
Andric wrote his book during the second world war, and his characters, who recount eastern Bosnia's brutal history, are fictional.
The Army of Potomac trying to take Richmond, end this damned war, and the Army of Northern Virginia offering a brilliant and brutal defense.
And, having unexpectedly encountered the woman in her getup, I found myself wondering what, six and seven decades ago, they would have made of it: what the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy, would have thought about this scene.
Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator, ruled for more than a decade following his brutal suppression of an uprising in the country's south after the first Gulf war.
After 30 years of war, Afghanistan still faces daily challenges in delivering basic services and security to its people while confronting a brutal insurgency.
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