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...those in the know, the medical team's culinary skills are legendary in a camp where razzing on the cooks is a popular pastime. Collins, however, is careful to defend them - especially since his own efforts are dependent on their goodwill and pantry supplies. "For what they have got to work with, they do a good job," he says. "But we've been here nearly two months, so it gets to be a little too much of the same thing...
...More troops would be nice. So would a second Forward Operating Base further down the valley that could help defend these tiny villages. His men could easily take the Taliban checkpoint where the farmers are harassed, but for how long? As soon as his company withdrew up the road to Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge, the Taliban would return. A police post would help, or an Afghan National Army presence. These things are coming...
...classes and castes. He and his wife, Ilina Sen, continued this work but also turned their attention to growing health and security threats in the state, especially escalating economic inequality. Over the last decade, an unstable economic situation has resulted in the influx of revolutionaries, known as Naxalites, who defend the rights of marginalized communities to their land and resources. Increasingly, they are met in these rural communities by Salwa Judum, government-supported militias sent to counter revolutionary violence...
...Salwa Judum has unclear origins. Some allege it is a government creation to drive rural communities off their land; government officials claim it is a spontaneous movement of people to defend themselves against the excesses of Naxalite violence. In either event, one certain point is that Salwa Judum has increased violence in the state to unprecedented levels, forcing communities out of their forest dwellings and into crude, and by most reports sub-human, camps. Moving back is often not a choice for these communities, kept off their traditional land by the government in the name of public safety...
...Gianni Alemanno sweeping to victory in the race for Rome Mayor, Fini was sworn in last week at the helm of the Italian Parliament, hoping his extremist past was definitively behind him. But now, Fini is again on the spot over fascism, a victim of his own zeal to defend Israel...