<adj.all> in cold blood cold-blooded killing insensate destruction
belonging to or resembling something nonhuman
<adj.all> something dark and inhuman in form a babel of inhuman noises
Inhuman \In*hu"man\, a. [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See {In-} not, and {Human}.] 1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Prosecutions will centre on torture, mass shootings and other 'inhuman' means used to suppress the 1956 revolution.
A UN investigator yesterday urged Russia to release 71,000 people awaiting trial in what he called inhuman and overcrowded conditions.
Hundreds of construction troops rioted at the Baikonur space center in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan after complaining of "inhuman treatment" by their superiors, news services said.
The United States on Thursday condemned apartheid in South Africa as "innately inhuman," deplored violence by both sides in Israel's occupied territories and cited human rights abuses in Afghanistan, Panama and Romania.
"This is an inhuman criminal action which we condemn," Arafat said. "It is against our peace mission.
"Such personalized and inhuman tendencies must come to an end if we are to make success of the government policy to ensure health for everybody by the year 2000," he said.
Now the question is, how much is his freedom going to cost the virtuoso dealmaker? A tearful Ivana Trump left court a single woman Tuesday after a judge, citing Trump's "cruel and inhuman treatment" of his wife, dissolved their 13-year marriage.
Police were last night braced for further sectarian violence. Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland secretary, condemned the killings as 'inhuman savagery' and said the gunmen would achieve 'no political purpose'.
They point out, contrary to the council of churches document, some Indian groups at the time engaged in slavery and inhuman practices such as blood sacrifices.
That government has been sharply criticized in the past by human rights groups, including the London-based Amnesty International, for forcing villagers and Rangoon residents to do forced labor under allegedly inhuman conditions.
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat today blamed terrorists for the crash of the Pan Am jetliner in Scotland, condemning it as an "inhuman criminal action" that undermines the peace process in the Middle East.
"It was dreadful, inhuman, depraved" she said. "They are trying to undermine democracy.
It would be seen as anti-social and inhuman.
The investigating team said it received more than 1,600 human rights complaints, including 137 of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Senegal President Abdou Diouf appealed late Saturday for calm despite what he called the "inhuman and degrading treatment" of Senegalese citizens in Mauritania.
After sending a mission to Singapore in June 1987, Amnesty published a report in October charging that the 22 people originally detained underwent "severely cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" during interrogation.
In 1976, the European Commission of Human Rights ruled that interrogation techniques by Northern Ireland police then contravened stipulations against inhuman and degrading treatment and torture.
"To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.
"The United States has adopted a hostile, brutal and inhuman attitude against Iran after the success of the Islamic revolution," he declared.
We are being torn apart by the terror that used to be balanced by the inhuman pressure applied to our souls.
Assistant Attorney General Charles A. Palmer of Texas argued that executing Penry would not violate the Constitution's ban against cruel and inhuman punishment.