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Record 1 2013-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Systems
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Christian Theology
DEF

An intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes politiques
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Théologies chrétiennes
DEF

Poursuite systématique par un gouvernement ou un parti, de ses opposants.

CONT

Quoi qu'il en soit, la présence de miliciens ou d'ex-miliciens pourrait servir de prétexte à une chasse aux sorcières parmi les Hutus et à une nouvelle vague de violence.

Spanish

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