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...government has portrayed the war as eminently winnable, publishing daily updates on the number of Tigers killed and pushing the idea that the insurgency is on its last legs. It's a risky strategy; L.T.T.E. forces in the North are digging in, and some military officials have warned the conflict is likely to be bloody and long...
...surprise that a society constantly under the threat of war unravels. Several hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the conflict; Sri Lanka has high rates of domestic violence and alcoholism, and the suicide rate is among the worst in Asia. Reacting to the end of the cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Sri Lankans to find an end to the conflict "through a political solution." Alas, in a society where politics turns on religion and identity, such a solution has proved impossible - as two and a half decades of broken plans attest...
...free.” In Morocco, I learned that bars and coffee shops were “for men only” and that, as a woman, it was safer never to walk into one. I met Taiwanese women in Beijing who could only speak of the China-Taiwan conflict with Americans, and even then, guardedly...
...firm’s actions when choosing an employer.“I think that the ethical aspect of a corporation’s business practice would have to play a role for me,” he says. “I would feel very morally conflicted working for a company that had practices that I didn’t believe in, even if I wasn’t involved in it.”But OCS Director William Wright-Swadel says that he doesn’t think that the negative publicity has changed the minds of many...
...first witness in the long-postponed trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor wasn't invited to address the alleged atrocities that engendered war crimes charges, to which Taylor has pleaded innocent. Instead, he came to talk about "conflict" or "blood" diamonds. The heart of the prosecution's case is that Taylor terrorized the people of neighboring Sierra Leone in order to appropriate its diamond wealth for his own ends. Taylor is being tried on 11 counts in a special court in The Hague, including murder, rape, mutilation, and conscripting child soldiers in neighboring Sierra Leone...