Tienes razón, muy bien definido.

"En una antigua misión en San Antonio, El Alamo, se encuentran atrincherados unos 180 hombres, entre ellos William Barrett Travis, David Crockett, y James Bowie. Las fuerzas de Santa Anna suman unos 4.000. A medida que las tropas mexicanas rodean el Alamo, Santa Anna alza el estandarte de "guerra sin cuartel," lo cual significa que no han de tomarse prisioneros. Las fuerzas de Santa Anna atacan, y todos los defensores del Alamo caen. "

http://www.fff.org/spanish/sp0199a.asp



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\"This will be a take-no-prisoners war, and there are going to be winners and losers. Make no mistake about that.”

http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/june01berkowitz.htm

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\"Both Britain and the United States have been drifting toward a distinction between two types of terror: \"global\" terror directed at the West in general and \"local\" terror geared toward achieving more limited local aims. A take-no-prisoners war is being fought against the former, but the world\'s most prominent symbol of the latter - Yasser Arafat - is welcomed into 10 Downing Street. \"

http://www.bearstrong.net/warblog/2001_10_01_archive.html


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\"The four-star general also said some Taliban forces continued to fight in two areas around Kandahar and southern anti-Taliban fighters were working to clear them of resistance.


Mr. Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers dismissed claims that U.S. military operations in Afghanistan were a take-no-prisoners war of extermination\"

http://www.americanvoiceinstitute.org/DailyNewsBriefing12-14...

Or \"word with no mercy\".

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The Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary:-

cuartel
...
no dar ~, to give no quarter;
no hubo ~ para los revoltosos, no mercy was shown to the rioters;
guerra sin ~, war without mercy.

But what are they treating or regarding mercilessly? Is it statutes or statues?

I do recall that there are/were some very precious monumental Buddhist statues in the region which were under grave threat from, and had already been seriously damaged by, religious militants in the region -- until UNESCO or someone like that stepped in.

según mi Collins Spanish Dictionary, ISBN 0-00-470-295-6, y estoy completamente de acuerdo.
¡Buena suerte, Hector Vargas!

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ruthless, relentless war también

May I please have an answer to my question -- I am very curious.

One of the answerers translated "estatuas" as "statutes". Is that right? Or is "statues" what is meant? And is it the monumental Buddhist statues in Central Asia that is in question? It sounds like it.

See The Collins Concise Spanish Dictionary © 1998 HarperCollins Publishers:-

estatua
(nf) statue.