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...violations perpetrated by the junta. Well over 1,000 pro-democracy activists—including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi—are now being held in prison and under house arrest. Even more disconcertingly, the Burmese military has destroyed more than 200 villages in the ethnic-minority Karen state, according to Human Rights Watch. The rights group estimates that more than 500,000 Burmese civilians have lost their homes as a result of the junta’s campaigns against ethnic minorities...
Burma is not Sudan. Some observers believe that the Burmese junta’s campaign against ethnic minorities is a “genocide” under international law, but the death toll has not yet reached Darfur’s horrific heights. Still, Harvard should take little solace in the fact that the Burmese government has killed thousands (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) of its own people. The same “pattern of circumstances” characterizing the PetroChina-Sudan relationship is also present in the Chevron-Burma tie. Just as PetroChina’s parent company...
...Burma's army also burnished its legitimacy in another way: It claimed to be the only force that could keep the country together. The nation is composed of more than 100 ethnicities, many of which waged wars and insurgencies against the central government for decades. Politicians, the generals asserted, represented feuding ethnic interests. In Burma's last election - back in 1990 - as many as 20 ethnically based political parties contested the polls. Who better than the military to keep peace between all these fractious tribal groups...
...phone with a friend in Riyadh when the explosions occur, killing the buddy. So this time (like every time) it's personal. And after kissing his kids goodbye, Fleury is of to Riyadh. To solve the case, he brings along a crack trio that updates the multi-ethnic squads found in old World War II movies, and is guaranteed to piss off the religiously and socially conservative Saudis. Along with the black guy, there's the older man (Chris Cooper) who swears a lot; the woman doctor (Jennifer Garner) who insists on wearing tight T shirts...
...start exercising its world leadership responsibly," she tells Time. But Fernàndez adds that Washington needs to recognize that leaders like Chàvez, Lula and Morales are products of genuine democracy; unlike the dictators and litists of Latin America's past, they come from the same ethnic, social and economic backgrounds as the majority of their countrymen. Morales, for example, is Bolivia's first President to hail from its indigenous people. "Perhaps for the first time in the region's history, those who govern actually look like those being governed," Fernàndez says...