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...Briton who first fell in love with Burma a decade ago, bewitched by its rich culture, breathtaking landscapes and hospitable people. Despite their isolation and the ever-present fear of arrest, I found Burmese to be worldly and eager to talk; I quickly formed lasting friendships, and Burma became the subject of my second book, The Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought...
...state-controlled, were embraced by thousands. Student activists jailed after the 1988 protests were released and regrouping as an alternative to the National League for Democracy (NLD), the beleaguered party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest...
...This time, Mbeki was happy to cite an "irretrievable breakdown" of relations between Pikoli and his boss, the justice minister. The real reason for the firing, say Mbeki's opponents, was Pikoli's delay in reinstating the corruption charges against Zuma - and his issue, on Sept. 10, of an arrest warrant for Jackie Selebi, the country's top policeman and the current head of Interpol. Selebi, an ANC heavyweight and another key Mbeki ally, has long been under fire for failing to tackle South Africa's raging violent crime. But there was even more heat over his friendship with Glen...
...Last Friday, the NPA confirmed it had issued warrants for Selebi's arrest and a search of his property, though it did not say on what charges and added the warrants would not be executed by the NPA's new acting director, pending his review of the case. "The question can only be asked as to what kind of hold the Commissioner [Selebi] has over the President, for the President to protect him at the cost of the independence and integrity of our democratic institutions," wrote Sandra Botha, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance in the party's weekly...
...with Jose Ernesto Medellin and his lawyers, arguing that he along with 50 other Mexican nationals should have their convictions reviewed because, in what the International Court has ruled a violation of a treaty signed by the U.S., they were not offered access to Mexican consular officials after their arrest...