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...Hong Kong and Seoul. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those of ordinary workers who could no longer send home money to their village for their daughters' schoolbooks or their sons' medicines...
...abducting his own people. Not being able to take care of your own people, becoming the worst nightmare, doesn't make you a leader. It makes you a monster. If you live by violence, you die by violence." The crowd was stunned. Berating Robert Mugabe, the 83-year-old autocrat who has overseen his country's implosion, was an invitation to be deported, jailed, even killed. Agents from his feared Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) pushed through the crowd, making for the stage. And then, as one, the audience erupted, cheering and clapping Kidjo and blocking the CIO men. Kidjo...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is used to ignoring international vilification. But the domestic outcry that followed police beatings of opposition leaders and the subsequent squashing of grass-roots protesters may offer players within his own party a chance to depose the octogenarian autocrat, whose rule has yielded 1,700% inflation, an 80% unemployment rate and average life expectancy of 35, the lowest in the world. Mugabe's chief rivals include a former army chief and an ex-- intelligence chief. Sure, they don't carry very progressive credentials, but in the eyes of many, anyone but Mugabe will...
...authorship of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, stand on such matters? George Bush, “the leader of the free world,” has scarcely visited France in his presidency, most recently to celebrate the Normandy landing. But Hu Jintao, the colorless Chinese autocrat, who has turned back the clock on democratic reforms, was given a greeting during a Parisian state visit last year fit for an American president, the Pope, and the Dalai Lama rolled into one. For four days the Eiffel Tower was lit red. France, also heavily invested in Sudanese oil, joined with...
...paint U.S. policy on Palestinian democracy as consistent requires a bottomless well of chutzpah. Worse, the attempt to install Abbas as the new autocrat is no more likely to bring peace than having Arafat in that role did. Arafat fooled himself and his people over what the Israelis would offer at the conclusion of the Oslo process; the Israelis fooled themselves over what Arafat, or any other Palestinian leader, would be prepared to accept. Just as Israeli democracy restrains the government from making the concessions necessary for peace, so does the uncorked genie of Palestinian democracy restrain Palestinian leaders from...