Word: dissenters
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Pakistan may be Egypt with Himalayan Pyramids, yet it neither receives billions of dollars in American aid nor is its government (even the current military led one) as repressive and intolerant of dissent as the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It could someday be like Turkey, yet it aspires to be so much more, a country where religion is neither stifled nor imposed, and where ultimately the army has no role at all in governmental affairs. Pakistan is, and always has been, the most dependable U.S. ally in all of South and Central Asia. When President Nixon sought...
...Dissent: RAs Are Workers...
...Dissent: Treatment Is Too Harsh
...Zimbabwe, the 77-year-old incumbent Mugabe, is facing his first serious electoral challenge since coming to power in 1980. Not dealing well with dissent, he has created laws making it a crime to criticize him, and effectively eliminated the right to assemble in public. To make things worse, Mugabe is winding up a two-year campaign of violence and intimidation that resulted in 16 political murders last month, according to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum. He has assembled militias, allegedly composed of war veterans, and used them to expropriate farmland from white Zimbabweans. In the past week, Mugabe?...
...Dissent: A Progressive Straitjacket