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That's not how the military views it. They see rapidly spreading support for the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM in its Indonesian acronym, and they're determined to stanch it with a brutal combination of collective punishment for towns and villages that back GAM, and preemptive terror toward everyone else. The result: wide swathes of Aceh have been brutalized since the beginning of the year. Along a 60-km stretch of the main north-south highway of east Aceh, hamlet after hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted...
When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...
When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...
...sitting in because poverty on our campus is brutal and cannot wait any longer for remedy," yesterday's press release read...
...reciprocated that friendship. China has continued to sell missile technology to rogue states such as Iran, and has not supported international efforts to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction. The Chinese have stepped up their persecution of Chinese Christians and intellectuals, not to mention their brutal repression of Falun Gong members. In 1998, after the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, a mistake for which the U.S. apologized many times, the Chinese encouraged street protests in Beijing which threatened the lives of the U.S. ambassador and his family. The situation became so dire that embassy personnel...