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...Mugabe is returning the country to a feudal system, just like Pol Pot did in Cambodia," says John Robertson, an economist based in Harare, who predicts that Zimbabwe's economy will shrink 12% this year, which would make it the worst performer in the world. Says U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker: "Mugabe has taken a country that should be prospering, that should be benefiting from its natural resources, including the resources of its own people," and has plunged it "into economic chaos and ruin...
...Holocaust, Cambodia and Rwanda have all caused us to rethink the laws of war,” Ryan said. “My whole course is about trying to get beyond their very obvious dissimilarities...
...coming weeks, nearly 900 Montagnards are expected to arrive from two refugee camps in Cambodia to similar North Carolina welcomes. The outcasts carry not only American visas and medical records but chilling stories of persecution that continue to reverberate long after the end of the Vietnam War. The Montagnards had fought for the losers in that conflict, side by side with Green Berets (who later helped arrange their relocation to North Carolina near the American special-forces base at Fort Bragg). In Vietnam, old scores are being settled to this day. The refugees say they are being forced from their...
...family. "Our children go hungry sometimes," she says. "Without land how can we get money? How can we get medical care?" In the end, Envil and her family grew so desperate that they walked for 10 days through the jungle to get to a U.N.-sponsored refugee camp in Cambodia, before heading...
...diplomatic pressure was supposed to force Hanoi to give back their land, he says. Instead, secret police rounded up protesters and put them in jail. Y Mphiap and 22 of his fellow villagers headed for the jungle. Three were caught and sent to prison; the rest made it to Cambodia. Says H'Mren, a 49-year-old refugee: "If we stayed in our village, we would die. If we ran, we might die too, but it was better to die free...