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You’d never know the terrible mayhem that was visited on the seat of our national government, or the way our country and democracy were defiled that pitch-black day.

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Nearly 20 years later, vandals dug up and defiled corpses.

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In his resignation letter, he said the CCC had been "defiled", accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of being behind the move - allegations it denied.

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And soldiers and volunteer medics recalled finding more than 30 defiled bodies of women and girls.

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The Seleucids captured the holy Temple of Jerusalem and defiled it by erecting an altar to the Greek god Zeus inside.

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