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...Sociologist Rene Jimenez notes that vigilante justice has already become a reality in several parts of the country. "The state is failing to keep control in certain areas so people take justice into their own hands," he said. "This vigilantism shows that the conflict is entering a new phase. Violence will breed more violence...
...undergraduate career when she was cast in David O. Russell’s first acclaimed film, “Spanking the Monkey,” during the summer between her performing arts high school graduation and her first semester at Cornell. When it seemed likely that filming would conflict with her freshman fall, Gallo’s mother told her, “Over my dead body are you not going to school,” and then promptly demanded Russell be finished with Carla by the start of the semester.“I left...
...Lankan Army announced with some fanfare two weeks ago that it had destroyed the last air strip used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), its adversary in a 25-year-long conflict that appears to be coming to an end. However, the Tigers made it clear tonight, with an air attack punching into the heart of the capital, that it's not over...
Tonight's bombing raid came as the world's media clustered in Colombo to cover what many expected to be the end of a conflict that began in earnest in 1983. The Army contends that it has cornered the LTTE in a shrinking patch of territory around Mullativu on the northeastern coast. With this attack - using a do-it-yourself plane and a couple of bombs - the whole city was plunged into darkness (the power was cut) and fear, as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft fire punctured the sky. With two planes down, this might be the last sortie from...
...pressure on opponents and critics. Within the last two weeks, for example, Egyptian state security agents reportedly detained and held without charge for four days an Egyptian-German blogger, Philip Rizk, who had protested what he saw as the regime's inadequate support of Paletinians during the recent Gaza conflict with Israel. Human Rights Watch has denounced Egypt's "appalling domestic rights record," citing alleged "torture in police stations, arbitrary arrests of non-violent dissidents and crippling restrictions on civil society organizations." Rights groups have also criticized Egypt's state of emergency, which has remained in force throughout Mubarak...