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• Fearing she would not be allowed to return to Burma, Suu Kyi chose not to leave the country to visit her husband, Michael Aris, as he died of cancer in England in 1999.
Burma's military rulers are notorious for using brute force. Now a human-rights report accuses them of using that force against the country's ethnic-minority populations. Released last week, "Dying Alive: A Legal Assessment of Human Rights in Burma" is 600 pages long and was three years in...
ARIS MESSINIS/AFP-GETTY IMAGES ANIMAL HUSBANDRY After a stray bit a Ukrainian archery coach while he was jogging, Greece announced plans to neuter, euthanize and tag the city's 60,000 lost dogs
The military says that atrocities are an exception, not the rule. "If I have a hundred soldiers in the field, two or three might commit abuses," says army spokesman Brigadier General Ratyono. "It's common. It's normal. But there is never any instruction to commit them." This distinction?let...
Among them are Shelby Brewer, an MIT-trained scientist and former deputy director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under President Reagan; retired Vice Admiral Michael P. Kalleres of the U.S. Navy, who served as commander of the Atlantic fleet during the Gulf War; and Aris Melissaratos, former director of the...