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...Radcliffe through her later years. Worth and Des Forges met at Radcliffe and bonded over a shared dedication to the Phillip Brooks House Association, a student-run public service organization. They quickly became friends and spent the summer after their junior years in Tanzania, working in an abandoned refugee camp near the Rwandan border. The summer sparked Des Forges’ interest in Rwanda, and she wrote her Ph.D. thesis about the nation while working toward a degree at Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, Des Forges was awarded the MacArthur...
...LTTE suicide bomber killed herself inside a crowded transit camp maintained by the government for displaced Tamil civilians in northern Sri Lanka. She killed and injured scores of Tamil men, women, and children awaiting transport to safer areas. A day later, the LTTE shot and killed 19 civilians as they attempted to cross over to government held areas. The incident was not widely reported in international media, perhaps due to its low political appeal. However, it is absolutely imperative that we resolve—as a global community—that no rebel group or government be allowed to commit...
...reinforcements include about 8,000 Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., who should be in Afghanistan by late spring, and a 4,000-strong Army brigade from Fort Lewis, Wash., which should arrive in the summer. Those units will be joined by about 5,000 more Army "enablers" to provide logistical support. (See images of Afghanistan's mean streets...
...five leaders of the Khmer Rouge will face charges in a tribunal backed by the United Nations. The first, Kaing Guek Eav - known better by his nom de guerre, Duch - ran the Tuol Sleng prison camp in Phnom Penh, where out of 17,000 Cambodians who were imprisoned, fewer than 20 survived. Pol Pot's second-in-command, Nuon Chea, will also face charges, as well as the Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister and head of state...
...guilt by association are returning to favor, perhaps we should remember innocence by association as well. After all, the pope’s dear cousin was killed by the Nazis. So, too, was Rene Lefebvre, father of the SSPX’s founder. He died at the Sonnenburg concentration camp in 1944, two years after his arrest by the Gestapo for participating in the French resistance. While pronouncing on the evils of historical forgetting, it would be wise for us not to be guilty of it ourselves...