It soon became clear that these profits were generated on the back of brutal mistreatment of the local people and plunder of the Congo's natural resources.

The government stated that it would adhere to a 1993 declaration that acknowledged and apologized for Japan's brutal mistreatment of the comfort women.

The Congo Free State eventually earned infamy due to the increasingly brutal mistreatment of the local peoples and plunder of natural resources.

Flower felt pity for him, trying to explain delicately what she had learned from brutal mistreatment.

This was done despite Libya's history of murdering dissidents abroad, and with full knowledge of Libya's brutal mistreatment of detainees.

In his mind, he returns repeatedly to the brutal mistreatment of five Korean women, who were brought to the Japanese military camp to service the men in a so-called "comfort house."

Political tensions only made the prisoners' days worse, with brutal mistreatment by the British guards becoming fairly common.

That gave impetus to a proposed nonbinding resolution in the House that would call on Japan to unequivocally acknowledge and apologize for its brutal mistreatment of the women.

The most urgent and immediate demand was to make public through all the communications media the brutal mistreatment of citizens by the police, and the prosecution of the guilty parties through the courts.

We, too, condemn in the strongest possible terms the brutal mistreatment of demonstrators.