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...democracy movement in Burma is not dead, but it is substantially weakened by the imprisonment of many of its leaders and eight years of brutal repression. Aung San Suu Kyi herself, the charismatic woman who has led the peaceful struggle for democracy, could use donations of money or supplies. Refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border need medical supplies in order to treat the casualties of SLORC shelling. Student groups in exile need funds to help raise awareness worldwide about the plight of the Burmese people...
When Madeleine K. Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, passionately decried Cuba's downing of the unarmed Cessna planes, most of the nation probably took her indignation at face value. However, if one considers America's long and bloody history of sponsoring brutal dictatorships and illegal invasions in the Caribbean and Latin America, her outrage seems ridiculous. Of course, two wrongs don't make a right--just because the United States trained, armed and directed death squads in countries such as Guatemala for half a century doesn't mean that it cannot criticize Cuba. But until the United...
Hussein Kamel, better than most, was in a position to understand how brutal his reception was likely to be. Defecting was bad enough. Once in exile, however, he denounced Saddam as a tyrant and murderer and gave the U.N. valuable information about Iraq's weapons program. Saddam has ordered countless executions for far less serious transgressions. Hussein Kamel knew all this, but if he had any remaining uncertainty about his father-in-law's attitude toward him, it should have been dispelled by Iraq's state-controlled media, which branded him a thief, a coward, a spy and a "traitor...
...addition, several members of the council expressed reservations about accepting the money at all because PepsiCo. has investments in Burma, a country governed by a brutal military dictatorship...
...praise what she's done because I don't think it's easy in the midst of losing your parents in such a brutal manner to persevere," he says...