Word: desertion
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...late Friday night, riot police surrounded the makeshift camp with public transport buses on hand ready to move the refugees to camps in the desert of Dahshur near the Saqqara pyramids in Giza. For almost four hours police officers used microphones to urge the protesters to peacefully end their sit-in. The refugees responded by throwing empty liquor bottles, iron rods, stones, and tree branches at the police. Police reacted by directing high-powered water jets at the refugees. As the police set upon the refugees, a stampede ensued. The clash ended with about 20 deaths and at least...
...UNHCR to end the protest because the refugees in the garden did not qualify for the legal immigrant status and many were staying illegally after the expiration of their visas. For the survivors, they have been expelled from their garden and face the new year in camps in the desert, under the shadow of the Dahshur pyramids...
...Bring back the sahel. The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) has never been the friendliest of places for those who resist bringing water-bottles with them. But at least we had the drinking fountain in the basement by the free-weight room. Recently, with that gone, the desert has encroached—it’s a long, thirsty, two-floor climb up to the cardio rooms and the nearest alternative drinking fountain. Does this extended sahel/desert metaphor mean that soon fitness geeks will gather around the MAC’s pool as wildebeest do around a watering hole...
...first a friendly and appealing man and then promptly switching to the personification of evil. As the action cuts to the three protagonists waking up in Mick’s junk-yard residence, bound as his prisoners, the movie becomes intensely dark. Strings of bullet shots, chases through the desert, exploding cars, and intense silences make the film a heart-stopping thriller more than a gross-out horror movie. Additionally, McLean offers the American audience extraordinary footage of this vast and untamed area of Western Australia. Wolf Creek, a park at the top of a meteor crater...
Four out of Five StarsIn the summer of 1971, British director Peter Watkins led a band of documentary filmmakers and amateur actors into the Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film’s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience...