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...NAMI-New York City, after reading the 2006 mortality report, health workers held focus groups to assess their patients' health concerns. There were many - foremost among them, the simple desire to feel deserving of good health. "The most shocking thing was that people really wanted to be healthy but there was a disconnect," says program associate Katie Linn, who ran the focus groups. "A lot of it came down to self-worth - they didn't feel like they were worthy of taking care of themselves...
...been made worse by the FARDC. It's a very difficult situation to manage. It's not indifference or unwillingness or inability. It's trying to be everywhere at the same time. I think it's also important to remember that the responsibility to protect is first and foremost a national responsibility. Armed groups who perpetrate violence need to be held to account. Look at what happened at Kiwanja [on Nov. 5, more than 50 people in that village were massacred in two waves, first by Mai Mai guerrillas, then by opposing soldiers from rebel Tutsi leader Laurent Nkunda...
...much as Congo. MONUC (the initials for the French translation of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo) appears overwhelmed as rival military forces, from rebels to the nation's army, take turns ravaging parts of the country. Alan Doss is perhaps the world's foremost expert on peacekeeping. In a lifetime career at the U.N., he ran the peacekeeping operations in Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone before being transferred to Congo in October 2007. He spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, by telephone while en route to U.N. headquarters in Geneva...
...impact,” Achebe says. “But it’s never enough. Society does demand constant attention from its observers, the writers.”But for Achebe, who is an outspoken postcolonial critic, “Things Fall Apart” is first and foremost a work of art. “I write fiction,” Achebe says, though he accedes that fiction and fact meet at crossroads. “I believe, for instance, that the truth of fiction is sometimes stronger than the truth of the newspapers...
...absence of any agreed-upon truth is what really drives the movie. But if one viewpoint is foremost, it is Kraisak's. After the 1991 military coup against his Prime Minister father, General Chatichai Choonhavan, Kraisak was indicted on assassination plots against rival generals and fled. Locals in the border region helped his escape, smuggling him to Malaysia. (He returned safely to Thailand two years later and denies the charges, which were never pressed.) In Citizen Juling, he returns the favor. "I had to pay back these people for their help by showing there was at least one Thai...