Brass balance scales hold a pile of grey pebbles in one pan and a pale feather in the other.

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Idi Amin

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker argues that every country inevitably has people who must die, casting killing as a price nations pay for law and order. It is a chilling justification of state violence: victims are reframed as necessary sacrifices, and the speaker treats their deaths as an acceptable, even routine, cost of stability.

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