In normal times, murders are common, part of an ancient system of blood revenge that requires relatives of victims execute the killers, or at least members of their families, within 24 hours.
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Those efforts, led by the United Nations with strong U . S . backing, are aimed at making sure these mass murders aren't swept under the rug to resurface later as blood revenge or distorted history.
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A fiery mixture of such warrior traditions as gazavat, blood revenge and mystic Islam has helped Chechens survive decades of war against the Russian empire in the 19th century and brutal deportation under Josef Stalin in 1944.
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This took place at the council in Willstown, in 1810, which abolished separate councils for each of the Cherokee divisions ( Upper, Lower, Hill, and Valley Towns ) as well as the practice of clan blood revenge.
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What the Red Cross discovered in Somalia was that while Somalis had little compunction about stealing from foreigners, they were very reluctant to steal from another Somali _ in the Somali culture, the response was blood revenge.
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Baiev described Barayev as " " a born killer, and his men were blood revenge . " " Facing death threats from Barayev as well as from the federal side, Baiev was eventually forced to seek political asylum in the United States.
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Perhaps the best articulation of this tension of values can be seen in the tragic drama where the Furies are constrained and given a place below the Temple's altar where they can no longer unleash themselves in the historic form of a blood revenge.
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Now while the truce was still holding the Bank al-Di l bin Bakr took advantage of it, and wanted to take blood revenge from Khuz ah for something that had happened in the Pre-Islamic period; they surprised them at a watering hole belonging to Khuz ah at al-Wat + r to the south of Mecca, and they killed twenty of their men.
