Twisting, turning, scratching at the lid with bloody fingernails.

Chaos, bloody chaos, prevails in many places.

1 WATCH The ground is bloody search about the churchyard

In Syria, a bloody civil war is laying waste to some of the world s most magnificent ancient cities.

Bloody ethnic, religious and civil wars rage from Angola to the Caucasus to Kashmir.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.

In the blood and drama of the events, however, we might miss a significant element of the story.

The Special Representative reported on developments in Afghanistan, where the number of deadly incidents was rising.

That terrible human tragedy took us back to the gory events of 26 February 1992.

Our urgent task as a nation is to heal, as quickly as possible, the bloody wounds that it has inflicted on our country.

If Europe s vigilance breaks down, violent conflict will become a possibility once again.

Internet companies close accounts and delete gory videos they share information with law enforcement.

You slap a cigarette out of some hoodlum's mouth... five minutes later he's in the mayor's office yelling police brutality ... rallying the bleeding heart squad.

Thousands of miles from the bloody fields of France, 26 young New Zealanders who died there are remembered on a granite cross.

Our purpose is to urge all peace loving peoples not to forget that bloody war or to allow such a tragedy ever to happen again.

My Government continues to watch with concern the bloodshed there. We wish to voice the view that there is a need for a solution to this chronic problem.

These are people who, like the Hitler Youth, turned over their bloody page of history and never looked back.

For in that act I saw something that might unite our torn and bloody land, and put an end to Greeks killing Greeks, and send them marching under Philip on their holy mission... to conquer Persia and destroy it.

The bloody battle for control of Syria between forces loyal to President Al Assad and the factions that are opposed to his rule entered its third year in March.

The recent bloody events have revealed some of the true aspects of this invasion, and they confirm the impotence of the United Nations and its lack of influence on the policies and schemes of the United States and its allies.

Although China clearly instigated the bloody border clashes, America sided with Mao s regime.

Nour still has hope for salvation he has kept his dreams and plans for the future alive despite the tragedies he has bore witness to during the war.

Mr. Nikiforov (Russian Federation) said that the whole world had witnessed with horror the bloody tragedy of Beslan, when terrorists had murdered more than 300 innocent children.

Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century?

Both sides accept that working with local partners for peaceful democratic change today is the best way to avoid violent revolution or military action tomorrow.

The bloody attacks in London and Sharm el Sheikh clearly demonstrate that terrorists continue to commit acts which should be unanimously condemned and whose eradication requires concerted action by the international community.

Quoting from advocacy material of the Bangsamoro people, it was stated that Only a war against poverty, injustice and discrimination can heal the festering wounds of conflicts and scorch the ground that breeds terrorism.

The parties themselves have reiterated their condemnation of violence and terrorism. They remain committed to the resolution of their differences through negotiation, despite the brutal and bloody efforts of the enemies of peace and reconciliation.

With Iraq rapidly descending into bloody chaos, the prospects for holding successful democratic elections in January, as the US and the Iraqi interim government have promised, look bleak.

With an eye on the events of the American Revolution forty years earlier, revolutionary leaders began bloody wars of independence against Spain, whose armies were ultimately unable to maintain control.

Though FUNAI identified the area as an Indigenous homeland back in 1993, the land hasn't yet been completely handed over because of a series of disputes and deadly conflict between rice farmers and indigenous people.

The peace process is now exposed to a severe trial that threatens to bring it to a standstill or a breakdown, now that confidence in the feasibility of resuming the talks and making progress in them has begun to dwindle as a consequence of the bloody events and the massacres taking place in the occupied territories.

The bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.

I saw live bullets being fired at the main gate, ambulances on campus, and massive amounts of tear gas thrown at the marchers condemning the Egyptian security forces' bloody actions at Rabaa el Adaweya Square.

to substitute for age old rivalries the merging of their essential interests to create, by establishing an economic community, the basis for a broader and deeper community among peoples long divided by bloody conflicts and to lay the foundations for institutions which will give direction to a destiny henceforward shared .

It involves the introduction of the rule of law and democracy against a backdrop of poverty among urban and rural people and an international security system which has been greatly shaken since the violent attacks of 11 September 2001.

The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.

There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of legitimacy of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.

quot The way to avoid the use of mercenaries seems to be to strengthen coordinated measures by the international community and to impose severe international sanctions on States conducting an aggressive policy designed to stir up bloody warfare and using military units of mercenaries to achieve their ends.

A glance at peace keeping around the globe, from Somalia to Haiti, from Rwanda to Bosnia, quickly reveals the sometimes bruised, sometimes bloodied, sometimes starved hands outstretched to United Nations peace keeping.

The deepening political crisis, the extreme rigid stance taken by the polarized political parties and the pending general election coming up on January 5, 2014 that the main opposition parties have boycotted, all point to another vicious cycles of bloody confrontations between the current government and its oppositions.

The recent events in Syria, while bloody and depressing to many people, have also brought about an explosion of blogs, Facebook pages and articles that try to satirize the events, and point out the absurdities in the official narrative sometimes in very unorthodox ways.

On April 29, protesters marched from 400 on feet from the southern city of Bougi.

Such nefarious developments not only undermine all the hard won achievements of the people of those countries, but also afflict them with new types of suffering and make them lose any hope they may have had in enjoying a life of dignity, stability and progress.

Much has changed since the Nazi era. The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.