Word: distrust
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...recognize that they cannot succeed without reaching out to all sectors of the population. "We will reconcile with the Islamists," says Aidid. "All their remnants can join our forces." But given the chaos the warlords wrought over the past 15 years and the fragile order now reigning in Mogadishu, distrust of the T.F.G. on the streets is running high. "For the last six months," says development consultant Muktar Hassan Elmi, "we could say, 'I will live tomorrow and the next day.' Now everything has changed. The warlords are back as part of the government. Now people ask: 'Will I come...
...Kurds at Anfal in 1988, which will never be prosecuted adequately if he is put to death now.) It comes down instead to politics. In a perfect world, Iraq's courts would be free of sectarian biases and worthy of public trust. But many Sunnis who loathed Saddam distrust the institutions of the Shi'ite-led government even more. I doubt that most Sunnis will view Saddam as a martyr any more than Saddam, whose entire regime was built around his self-preservation, really wants to become one. But there's every reason to believe that many ordinary Sunnis will...
Some studies have shown that Mexico's crime rate is lower than that of the U.S. Of course, crimes are underreported in Mexico because of distrust of the police. But my wife and I walk around our village at night in complete safety...
...August, in response to international concern, Arroyo set up the six-member Melo Commission, led by a retired Supreme Court judge, to probe the killings. Some bereaved families doubt its independence and have refused to testify. This distrust is symptomatic of a profound loss of faith in Arroyo herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted...
...other countries too. In his "presidential" mansion, a cluster of old colonial-era sandstone buildings, the Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat complains: "We are facing very unfair treatment. Lifting the international isolation on Turkish Cypriots should not be a question of bargaining." But bitter memories and generations of distrust have made compromise difficult. The Turkish military, diplomats believe, has more than 30,000 troops on the island; the bulk of them would probably have to leave in the event of a settlement, and their leaders would prefer that they did not. For their part, Greek Cypriot business leaders...