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...take the first penalty kick of the shootout - after two games and extra time left the score at 1-1 - Anfield stadium was nearly lifted off its moorings by the roar pouring from the Kop, the famous home end of the arena (named for the site of a famous Boer War defeat of the British) where Liverpool's faithful turn their stadium into a living hell for visiting teams. Robben's shot to Pepe Reina's left, perhaps slowed by the decibel level, was snared by the Spanish keeper; moments later Reina went to his right to parry the effort...
...against apartheid, Mandela made it his business to understand and empathize with the motives of apartheid's die-hard Afrikaner supporters. The central collective trauma that they had used to justify their system of minority rule was the terrible suffering inflicted on them by the British during the Anglo-Boer War. The resulting sense of victimization allowed the Afrikaners to focus only on their own suffering and ignore what they were inflicting on others. Mandela always praised the Boers' courageous fight and honored their suffering, understanding that dismissing or diminishing your adversary's primal fears simply reinforces his sense...
...Aussie Rules was first played in South Africa just over a century ago by globetrotting Australian miners and soldiers on R & R from the Boer War. But a local competition petered out and "footy" disappeared. Then, in 1997, a group of Australian soldiers played a few exhibition games and ran coaching clinics in an attempt to reintroduce the sport. Four years later, the Australian Football League got serious and, linking up with Australian Volunteers International, sent a development officer to South Africa to spread the footy gospel...
...home, Imperial Britain was all about democracy, the rule of law and morality, fair play and decency. But out in the colonies, the British built the first concentration camps (where 27,000 Afrikaner civilians died after being rounded up in an effort to end the Boer insurgency), pioneered the bombing and gassing of civilian population centers (in among other places, Iraq in the 1920s) and other nasty habits that were - well, just not cricket. A Western nation-state that occupies another typically develops two faces: A democratic one at home, and a harsh authoritarian one in the occupied country...
...members and were not armed.) The unsparing use of overwhelming force is only part of it. The military has also acknowledged its aim to separate GAM from its civilian supporters by herding up to 200,000 villagers into internment camps, a strategy invented by the British during the Boer War at the turn of the last century but now used only by military dictatorships, such as Burma. "The village will be surrounded and given a warning so women, children and the elderly can leave first," explains General Sudi Silalhi, chief adviser to Indonesia's chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono...