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The carvings are considered sacred sites to the tribe, but this is not the first time people have gone through and disturbed the area.

At the same time, Young said, his anecdote about family graveyards and homeland suggests another political tendency - a "disturbing undertone of nativism".

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UN human rights chief Volker Türk said his office had received "extremely disturbing reports of entire families, including women, children and hors de combat fighters, being killed".

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Planes have very limited space, and it's a challenge to find a suitable spot to place the body without disturbing other passengers and compromising the plane's safety.

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And like those shorts, in which characters were continually being pummeled, flattened, shot, blown up, run over and the like, “Oh My God” dives into “cartoon violence,” if more graphic and disturbing in the execution.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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