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...irrigation and drinking-water projects?and the homes of the "people's enemies" are being leveled. Their aim, the Maoists admit, is to achieve Year Zero, a reference to the Khmer Rouge genocide that was to clear the way for a socialist utopia. "At first, we just wanted to destroy all the government institutions in the village," Junge Kuna village leader Ghopal Phandari, 23, told me deep in rebel territory in Dang. "But then we decided to block any access to the villages by blowing up bridges?one time we hit 48 in one day. Inside our land, we also...
...NETHERLANDS "Belgrade Decided to Destroy Kosovo" In dramatic testimony at Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes trial in the Hague, President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo said, "Belgrade clearly decided to destroy Kosovo through violence and war" by "a calmly done cleansing of the population." Rugova, who sparred verbally with the former Yugoslav leader, is the highest-ranking prosecution witness so far. The charges against Milosevic include responsibility for the deaths of more than 900 Kosovars and the expulsion of 80,000 in a crackdown that drew in NATO forces...
...factor. He is not quite dark and mysterious in his red and blue tights, but there are two things that save him from a Captain America brand of cheesiness. One is his plain likability. Spidey’s a trickster who likes to toy with his victims but not destroy them. He has a heart. He is the underdog who got a shot at greatness, and so many scrawny geeks can look at him and hope that someday, a genetically mutated dragonfly/wasp/scorpion will bite them. Spidey is the likable dork who got the girl. You see now why Maguire...
...Iraqi people more amenable to the idea of a stable government friendly to the West, we must act in a more principled and respectful way. Preventing future problems in the region, including terrorism, will require sensible American relations with the Iraqi people on the ground. This invasion, however, will destroy Iraq’s infrastructure and cost the lives of countless civilians—many of whom have already suffered under economic sanctions—all for the apprehension of one man whom, if Afghanistan serves as any clue, we may not even succeed in capturing...
...sponsored Muslim rebels in Indian-held Kashmir, and propped up the Taliban and by extension its malevolent Arab guests in Afghanistan?though it denies these charges. Its tentacles stretch into Pakistani politics, courts and everyday life. It is much feared; a venal whisper from an ISI informer can destroy a career or lead to arrest?or worse...