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...fortress at Mazar-i-Sharif. Justin Huggler provided one of the most vivid and harrowing accounts of the bloodbath annotated with uncomfortable and unanswered questions in London's Independent. And in line with the growing British calls for an inquiry into the events, that paper's fiercely anti-war columnist Robert Fisk accuses the U.S. and Britain of complicity in a war crime. His argument is echoed in The Guardian where Isabel Hilton argues that the involvement of American and British personnel alongside General Dostum's men necessitates an investigation. "Were they fighting by Dostum's rules or by their...
...Independent columnist David Aaronovitch is scathing of his colleagues' rush to judgement. "Some people emit outrage like elephants' piss," he writes. "The sheer quantity of it soon covers the psychological landscape." He cites a number of accounts suggesting that the revolt was triggered by kamikaze prisoners. "Had, in 1944, a chateau full of captured SS men killed their captors and then holed up inside shooting at anything that moved, I doubt whether anyone now would have called their extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because...
...been involved in at least a dozen bar fights and shootings. Yet, until Wanchalerm's arrest last week as an accessory to the murder, they had never spent a day in jail. "They're the most notorious, but they're by no means unique," says Andrew Hiransomboon, a nightlife columnist for the Bangkok Post. Other infamous scions include Suksant Kong-udom, son of a senator and casino tycoon, charged with shooting a diplomat's son outside a disco; Poonpol Asavahame, son of a former deputy interior minister, accused of pistol whipping a truck driver and running down a police officer...
...objection. One is a 34 minute United Nations film on the conflict. I had not previewed this film but was told that it could be used as a background to the events from 1890 to 1990. This seemed acceptable. I have no reason to think otherwise. Your columnist who is so hostile to the U.N. might be reminded of the most recent Nobel Prize it received...
...With U.S. media raving about the new freedom of Afghan women now that the Taliban have gone, Indian Express columnist Pamela Philipose offers a sobering corrective. "Its tolerance of music and barbers must not hide the fact that (the Northern Alliance) comprises elements who would argue, like the Taliban do, that a woman's face is the source of all corruption." If those shaping Afghanistan's future are serious about the rights of women, she argues, women must be given an independent voice in the political process...