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...explained either his rise to power or his demise. His bloodless coup was not the product of some megalomaniac instinct on his own part; Musharraf was acting as the representative of a military institution whose leadership perceived itself to be under attack from a civilian government it viewed as corrupt and inept. That same institution had governed Pakistan for much of its history, and it was as head of that institution, and in consultation with its top echelon, that Musharraf ruled. It was only when the military leadership opted to retreat from running the government that he was forced...
Thaksin was ousted as Prime Minister in a bloodless military coup d'etat in September 2006 by a clique of generals who claimed he was corrupt, dividing the country and had disrespected Thailand's revered monarchy. He spent the next 18 months in self-imposed exile in various countries, while a military-appointed committee investigated and filed charges against him in raft of corruption cases. He has consistently denied all charges against...
...teacher’s translation helped me understand his words, but his gestures conveyed his anger, powerless as it was. He told us he agreed with the policies, but their execution was corrupt. I asked my teacher whether this particular government-citizen interaction was a problem elsewhere in China, but he told me this punishing unfairness was particularly directed at Inner Mongolia’s minority population...
...familiar with the reign of Pol Pot and knew that millions had died under his regime, the temporal proximity was surprising to me. Only a generation ago in Cambodia, almost a fifth of its citizens were killed. Now, after years of political and economic instability resulting from corrupt politics and the Asian financial crisis of the late 90s, Cambodia is growing, its people are healing, and Westerners are arriving. That is where I fit in. Like many other young and idealistic Harvard freshman, I am using this summer as a time to test the waters...
...Mexicans have come to see police corruption and complicity in crime as a way of life. Last week, an entire family was found murdered in Jalisco, in what state authorities say was a botched kidnapping involving a policeman serving in an anti-kidnapping unit. Says Alejandro Gertz Manero, Dean of the University of the Americas and a former attorney general, "There is a collusion of the criminals with the police, and what is the worst is that there is impunity - 99% of the cases go unsolved. So there is only a 1% chance of being caught, and even then, probably...