THE word 'purge' evokes images of the 2013 film. But real purges have been carried out by Hitler, Stalin and Hussein in the not so distant past.Here w.
Nyunt was purged from the Party and sentenced to 44 years in prison in 2005, but he was freed in 2013. In 2013 the world was shocked when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's uncle was purged from the Party and executed after being accused of treachery. In some cases purging can mean simply dismissing or removing people from a group or situation, but in other cases it can mean killing them, perhaps because they are a threat to the established order.