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...democrats. Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the past 19 years in detention. Her party, the National League for Democracy, is virtually extinct. Last September's protests radicalized a new generation of young Burmese democrats, but more than 100 people were killed and thousands arrested in the regime's crackdown. Many of the 88 Student Generation are behind bars. No wonder, then, that some Burmese democrats are now considering more violent forms of protest. Leading Burmese journalist Aung Zaw recently recalled conversations with a senior dissident and a monk. The dissident was seeking funds to plant bombs...
...contracts that offered far higher salaries than what they might make as a cog in their homeland's state sports system. Others, though, were motivated by different concerns. James Li, who coaches American runner Lagat, decided to stay abroad in the U.S. in 1989 largely because of the Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. He has trained Lagat for the past 12 years and last year was named coach of the year by the American track and field authority...
Mohammed VI predicted that the terrorist attacks in Casablanca would be the last to jolt the country. But that forecast proved overly optimistic, despite the jailing of more than 500 suspected Islamists. Moreover, says Hakim El Rissai, a senior researcher at the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, the police crackdown has only fueled resentment against the regime: "The police here aren't very methodical. They arrest 200 people to catch one terrorist." This repression, adds El Rissai, "is turning the jihadis into martyrs...
...authorities to keep their promises that being awarded the Games would make China a more open society and improve its human-rights record. Amnesty International reported on July 22 that instead of improving human rights, the hosting of the Games had actually had the opposite effect. "In fact, the crackdown on human-rights defenders, journalists and lawyers has intensified because Beijing is hosting the Olympics," the report stated. "The authorities have stepped up repression of dissident voices in their efforts to present an image of 'stability' and 'harmony' to the outside world...
...hair and blue eyes, have been killed in the past year. The main suspects are local witch doctors, who sell albino organs and hacked-off body parts as good-luck charms. In April, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete appointed an albino to be a Member of Parliament and ordered a crackdown on witch doctors...