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Fri 10 Apr, 2015 06:12 am
Does "which whitewashed death squad activity" mean "which concealed death squad activity"?
Context:
PREFACE
[] Kissinger's recruitment and betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds, who were falsely encouraged by him to take up arms against Saddam Hussein in 1974-75, and who were then abandoned to extermination on their hillsides when Saddam Hussein made a diplomatic deal with the Shah of Iran (3)
[Kissinger's orchestration of political and military and diplomatic cover for apartheid in South Africa and the South African destabilization of Angola (3)
[Kissinger's chairmanship of the Presidential Commission on Central America in the early 1980s, which was staffed by Oliver North and which whitewashed death squad activity in the isthmus. Or about the political protection provided by Kissinger, while in office, for the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran and its machinery of torture and repression (4)
[when Kissinger urges President Ford not to receive the inconvenient Alexander Solzhenitsyn (4)
[ crimes that [Kissinger] can and should be placed on a proper bill of indictment []:
1. The deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:Mark: 0 replies.
Why do you keep doing this?
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
oristarA wrote:Mark: 0 replies.
Why do you keep doing this?
When a thread seems to be thrown into oblivion, you have to.
@oristarA,
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whitewash
in the context you've provided, this definition applies
Quote: to prevent people from learning the truth about (something bad, such as a dishonest, immoral, or illegal act or situation)
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You could have sorted this out yourself by using a dictionary.
@ehBeth,
For a word to come into one's head, you'll have to practice it for a several times --- psychological science tells us.
I met this word whitewash for the first time and so have to be impressed by your native speakers' comments.
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