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...emblematic scene in Kim Tae-kyun’s film “Crossing,” the young protagonist Joon runs after the truck that is carrying away his dead mother. As he struggles and fails to catch up to the moving vehicle, he begins to pant. His shoes are in tatters; the afternoon sun hangs over a dusty North Korean landscape. This scene is one of many that exemplify the genuinely sad but wholly unoriginal feel that characterizes much of “Crossing.” The movie provides an emotional and vivid portrayal of the tragedies...
...Dhaka Medical College and other hospitals in the capital. On Thursday, police retrieved the bullet-ridden bodies of at least six BDR officers from a sewer on the outskirts of Dhaka that connects the BDR headquarters to a nearby river. It is believed that the mutineers shot the officers dead and later threw the bodies into the tunnel...
...daughter Ahlam is still picking shrapnel out of wounds she received from artillery fire in 1975. The family survived the infamous Shatila massacre of 1982 by sheer luck, fleeing from Lebanese militiamen almost as soon as the slaughter began. When they returned afterwards, most of their neighbors were dead, and there was a body in the living-room closet. One of Ahlam's brothers was later shot in the head by a sniper while washing his hands in their entryway. Their building has been destroyed five times. They keep rebuilding because there's nowhere else to go. (Read "Fatah...
...kindergarten act out the searing memories of being forced from their refugee camp during the fighting by shouting at each other. "Where is your ID?" one demands. "You don't have permission!" another says. They form little checkpoints in the playground. In class, they draw pictures of burned houses, dead bodies and soldiers locked up in jail...
...expected, the Native American community responded with a shrill round of protests and recriminations—the most dramatic of all from a freshman of the Shinnecock tribe, describing how “the image that went into my head was me, my baby cousin, and my family lying dead in a pool of blood...