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...soldiers destroyed a handful of local facilities that Maung had set up in the hill country in Burma. To replace them, she and her staff have assembled teams of health-care workers who slip into Burma and deliver care, village by village. The volunteers, known as backpack medics, face arrest if caught, and Maung knows that if she steps back over the border, the junta will pounce. So for now, she stays at Mae Tao, providing medical care for a nation of the displaced and hoping to return to the land of her birth. "We're building a community...
...Compared with Prynne's England, 21st century Australia is a remarkably safe place. So it would be interesting to have his view on the changes to those ancient rights contemplated in Australia's proposed anti-terror laws, which allow for secret detention without trial and a year's house arrest on the reasonable suspicion of a senior member of the Australian Federal Police. The government says the new laws are vital for the people's protection, but it is worth asking, before they are passed into statute, what exactly they will defend...
...people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson. The three backpackers were executed after ransom negotiations collapsed weeks later. Sentenced to life in prison but free while his case was being appealed, Chhouk Rin fled after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction and issued a warrant for his arrest in February. At the time of his capture, he was reportedly putting the finishing touches to a new wooden house, where he planned to live...
...arrested for public masturbation in Cambridge this past April has found himself in trouble with the law yet again—this time, on two charges of rape. Kevin Bennett, 33, was arrested on Oct. 9 near Augusta, Maine with a default warrant from his previous arrest on the Harvard College campus. He has pled not guilty to the charges in Cambridge District Court, and is being held on a $2 million bail. Bennett was arrested in front of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) in April after a dramatic chase that started with him masturbating in a window visible...