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...Sunday afternoon a group of journalists went up to the Northern Alliance frontline and watched as the NA fired more tank shells and mortars at a second and third line of trenches behind the first. Just as the sun was setting the tank commander, General Bashir, judged that the Taliban had all cleared out and said he was going forward in an armored personnel carrier to examine the trench lines. About half a dozen journalists asked if they could go, Bashir said yes, and they jumped on board a Armored Personnel Carrier with him and about 6 soldiers. As there...
...latest political twist in Sudan's chaotic civil war, President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered the arrest of opposition Islamist leader Hassan Al-Turabi and the detention of 30 members of his National Popular Congress. Turabi irked the President by striking a deal with Christian rebel leader John Garang, whose Sudan People's Liberation Army has waged war for greater autonomy in the mostly Christian south from the Muslim north. That agreement brought the Muslim and Christian fundamentalists together for joint "peaceful popular resistance" against Bashir's regime, which has to date failed to end Sudan's internal strife peacefully...
...only physical. The whole concept of a state has been distorted. At the airport, militiamen charge landing fees and sell exit visas. Anyone with $30 can buy an official Somali passport in the central Bakara market, though few countries will recognize it. A few stalls away, moneychanger Bashir Moalim Mohamed opens a huge safe packed with $10,000 worth of Somalia shillings. "I am the central bank," he says, pulling out stacks of new notes recently imported by local businessmen from a printing company in Canada. What about protection? Mohamed plucks a rusty M-16 assault rifle from the open...
...there has been vicious warfare on and off since Sudan's independence in 1956. Africa's largest country is really two: an Islamic, Arabized north and a Christian, animist and African south. The government in Khartoum is headed by Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but the real power is Hassan al-Turabi, a radical scholar who leads the National Islamic Front and is intent on enforcing Muslim law on the land. On the battlefield, the shifting coalition led by John Garang's SPLA has been successful recently, opening a new front in the northeast. Officially the rebels are fighting...
Sewell Chan '98, a social studies concentrator in Quincy House, was president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association in 1996 and is a former Crimson executive. Bashir A. Salahuddin '98, a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is a former chair of the Harvard Black Men's Forum...