Word: burma
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...elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches of the empire. In this case, the voyager is a Brit named Edgar Drake, sent to the jungles of Burma in the late 1800s to find a man and repair a concert grand piano. Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma assignment to escape the strictures...
...their common border. A Pakistan Foreign Ministry statement described India's partial withdrawal as "a step in the right direction." But Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said "there will be no lowering of vigil" in Kashmir. Fernandes also ruled out any talks with Pakistan in the immediate future. BURMA Lost Childhood Human Rights Watch accused Burma's army of forcing children into military service, where they were subjected to beatings, pushed into active combat and prevented from contacting their families. The U.S.-based rights group estimated that children under 18 made up 20% of the country's 350,000 troops...
Despite criticism of Berge's candor, the committee has always been part of, not above, the political fray. The Prize, says Lundestad, "is a loudspeaker and a microphone" that has been used to bless peacemakers and to boost their causes - equality in South Africa, freedom in Burma, independence in East Timor. "One cannot say, 'Here's an important process, let's find a name,'" says St?lsett, who is also the Bishop of Oslo. "But it's a bonus if we can send a message...
...Zawahiri came to be in Bangladesh, or whether he's still there. However, a source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (dgfi), a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told TIME that al-Zawahiri is believed to have left Bangladesh this summer, crossing over the eastern border into Burma with Rohingya rebels. U.S. intelligence, however, has no evidence this report is true...
...restricted itself to circulating speeches by bin Laden and Mullah Masood Azhar, a Pakistani militant leader. But it has big plans, says the HUJI source: "The dream is to create a larger Islamic land than the territorial limits of Bangladesh to include Muslim areas of Assam, north Bengal and Burma's Arakan province." That dream, if Islamic terrorists are allowed to continue their operations in Bangladesh, could be a nightmare for the rest of the region...