Word: complicitous
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...working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down its projects would hurt Sudan's civilians more than help them. Some independent...
...memory was molded to serve a purpose. When telegraph wires clicked with the news that Lincoln had been shot at Ford's Theatre, the nation was facing the monumental and confounding task of restoring peace after four years of broiling war. Lincoln had thought both North and South were complicit in the shame of slavery. He even suggested, in his second Inaugural Address, that God may have brought "this terrible war" to punish both regions, urging the nation to bind up its wounds "with malice towards none, with charity...
...peers to withhold their donations to Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund (HCF) by the graduating class, until the University divested from PetroChina. Their group—called Senior Gift Plus (SGP)—argued that by holding these investments, the University was indirectly complicit for the deaths in Darfur. Thus, any money that students contributed to University coffers was also indirectly supporting the Sudanese genocidal regime...
...Secret City of Los Alamos (Simon & Schuster; 424 pages). To grasp the full dimensions of Oppenheimer's humiliation, you need to understand not only the currents of American postwar paranoia but also the tangled particulars of the man himself. Even a generous evaluation of his fate would call him complicit in his downfall. Whether through hubris or naiveté, he refused to take seriously that his years of association with communists would open him to suspicion. American Prometheus tells his story at length and exceedingly well. The authors, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, employ a mix of thoroughness and judgment...
Many activists link Unocal’s involvement in a Burmese oil pipeline as a way in which the company is complicit in gross human rights abuses, pointing to forced labor and mandatory relocation of residents in the area. But it seems that BAM should check the facts...