Horrifying Death Toll – On This Day in 1976

August 1 1976THE horrifying total of 204 people – 32 members of the security forces and 172 civilians – citizens, men and women, husbands, fathers, mothers, wives, sons and daughters whose lives have been brutally snuffed out since the beginning of this year, the highest death toll since 1972, by people who have appointed themselves judges and executioner of other human beings, is enough to make even this tragic community reel.The first reaction, of anger and revulsion at the thought of how these people dare to assault their fellow humans in this near insane fashion, gives way to a different kind of anger, at the utter futility and crass stupidity of those who have master-minded, if the word mind can be used at all in the context, these grisly operations.What is the purpose? Where the gain