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Rahmuna Shehabuddin--known to friends as "Elora"--was doing thesis research in her native Bangladesh when she heard the news: Her parents and two sisters were among the millions trapped by the Iraqi army in Kuwait City. Her mother and sisters were released in September, but her father, the ambassador from Bangladesh, would remain a hostage in Baghdad for two weeks, before finally leaving in October...
...days after the latest cyclone ravaged Bangladesh, Mother Teresa arrived from Calcutta with 1,600 lbs. of relief supplies. It took a day for officials in Dhaka to decide how to deal with her. Since the Nobel Peace laureate had flown in on a commercial flight, some officials argued that the materials needed to go through customs. About a month earlier, when Iraqi Kurds began fleeing en masse from Saddam Hussein's soldiers, the Iranian army struggled to cope with thousands of dying children. They were treated with antibiotics instead of rehydration salts, a more effective means of staving...
...Major powers such as the U.S. are reluctant to take on the duty, let alone the cost, of intervening unilaterally. Should the United Nations assume the chore? In the wake of more than 30,000 Kurdish deaths and perhaps as many as 140,000 killed in Bangladesh's April 30 storm, many reformers pin their hopes on the organization. "Only the U.N. has the power and resources to mobilize the international community, but too often it has been hamstrung by a lack of clear leadership and coordination," argues Lynda Chalker, the British Minister for Overseas Development. Britain hopes...
...budgeted just $10 million for disaster detection and preparation this year, while private charities are being whipsawed by conflicting demands. Says Marcus Thompson, Oxfam's emergencies director: "We are going flat out everywhere." What about a multinational force independent of the U.N.? The belated but effective intervention in Bangladesh by 12,000 U.S. soldiers suggests that a military-style operation might be the answer. In the Washington Post, columnist Jim Hoagland called on the U.S. to use its armed forces for other emergencies in the future. Yet developing countries often balk at U.S. intervention. On the other hand, a reserve...
...been two weeks since a cyclone smashed into Ujantia, situated on a small island five miles off the Bangladesh coast in the Bay of Bengal, but the misery of the town has yet to recede. The storm, which claimed at least 125,000 lives nationwide, killed about 3,000 of Ujantia's 15,000 people. The trees, what few remain, were stripped of leaves and fruit. The homes, if not completely washed away, were whittled to bamboo skeletons. A four-hour boat ride from Cox's Bazar, the nearest mainland city, Ujantia has received only a pittance of relief supplies...