machete

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a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

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"This has to be one of the most savage wars in a hundred years--just the enormity of the physical violence, a million people macheted to death," George says.
He refused at first but, under Clinton's persuasion, conceded, 'Well, you don't make peace with your friends.' Countless references were made to his regret at not acting sooner to stop the genocide in Rwanda, in which 750,000 innocent people were macheted to death.
The four, plus two New Zealanders and two Americans, were seized by Hutu militia in Bwindi National Park and bludgeoned or macheted to death.
Truckloads of Haitians are rounded up, hurled from cliffs into the sea, shot by civilians, macheted. Poor Dominican peasants are asked to catch and bring Haitians to the soldiers.
On her recent visit, Bilinda found the six-year-old daughter of her closest colleague at the hospital, a social worker, who had been macheted to death.
'During the onslaught leading to their arrest yesterday, two of our village hunters were macheted by these evil doers.
MANY have been cluckclucking about tribalism over the last week, and it's undeniably true that watching a man being macheted to death because he's on the wrong political side is ugly indeed, but what is nationalism except tribalism by another name?
Recalling that incident, she said today: "I had arrested someone in Hillfields who had macheted a person around the head.
He said their injuries suggested they had been macheted to death rather than shot in the crossfire of a rescue attempt.
The accused was also accused to have shot one Olu Obolo in the leg and macheted him at the rear pelvic girdle and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 320 (1) of the criminal code cap 37 volume 1 Laws of the Ondo State 2006.
"Boyden was a witness along with another bloke who was found macheted to death this morning," one of her detectives explained.
"The victims were macheted to death on Monday and six of us were freed to take a message to the world."
He explained that the late Akinyemi was shot at the back by the hoodlums while he was also heavily macheted before he was killed.
If someone dared to take a mouthful of chocolate cake they acted like they had gone out and macheted an entire family.
I sympathise with our members who were macheted and injured.