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...Africa, and the Persian Gulf before 1948. Her family had lived peacefully and prosperously in Aleppo, Syria for generations, but after the partition of Palestine, Jews living in Syria, as well as in other Muslim countries, were persecuted through government legislation and action that deprived them of human and civil rights, nullified their citizenship, and seized their property. My grandmother was separated from her family, but many other Jews were tortured, murdered, detained, and expelled. The once-thriving Jewish communities of these Muslim countries that had existed for 2,500 years are now gone. My grandparents can?...
History will not judge this kindly. For many, in America and around the world, these words encapsulate an era in which our government has deceptively deprived individuals of civil liberties and basic human rights in the name of national security. Already, with nine months remaining in his tenure in office, President George W. Bush cannot flee from the scene quickly enough: The latest ABC News/Washington Post national poll showed 64 percent of Americans expressing disapproval of Bush’s performance as president...
...Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first “revolution” in this country whose challenges were shared by both groups. AAA Co-Vice President Austin Chu ’10, a who also helped organize the event, said that the two groups wanted Tang to come...
...angry Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa severed relations with Colombia, and the Organization of American States called the attack a violation of sovereignty. But conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused Ecuador and its left-wing government of harboring the FARC, which has fought the Colombian government in a bloody civil war for 44 years. Uribe claims that data on Reyes' laptop computer reveals ties between the FARC and Ecuadorian Security Minister Gustavo Larrea. Correa vehemently denies it, insisting his military has removed FARC camps inside Ecuador and that Colombia - whose own military is often accused by human rights groups of killing...
...believed Pushpa Kamal Dahal actually existed. The Maoist guerrilla leader was a creature of myth - no one knew what he looked like or in which mountain fastness he hid or quite how he and his fighters, ragtag and ill-equipped, had managed to plunge Nepal into a decade-long civil war that claimed 13,000 lives. But now all know Prachanda, the nom de guerre by which Dahal is more often referred, as not only a man of flesh and blood, but of suits and expensive pens. As results filter in from Nepal's April 10 election - the country...