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decimation

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DECIMATION. The punishment of every tenth soldier by lot, was, among the Romans, called decimation.
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But the findings must be taken in context with Uganda's history of civil wars and the decimation of its institutions of higher learning, including high schools - in addition to the crippling real cost of high school education.
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