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...Years of Silence” documents the systematic and discreet extermination of an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Indonesians from 1965 to 1966. The killings, which targeted members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), a then-legal political entity, occurred under the direction of General Suharto at the time of his rise to power. Suharto eventually ascended to the presidency and remained there until 1998. It is only now, a decade after his resignation and 40 years after the massacre, that survivors of the atrocities are finally sharing their stories.The film, which was screened at Harvard...
...campaign against FOCA, which would essentially codify the Roe v. Wade decision by saying the government can't place limits on abortions performed before viability, began shortly after Barack Obama's election in November, at the annual general meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In a unanimous decision, the bishops voted to "mobilize the resources of the USCCB, dioceses and the entire Catholic community" to oppose...
...level of enforcement against the cartels," he said. Crespo contends that this deployment has actually weakened the army's position. While criminals once viewed the troops as untouchable, they now target them on a daily basis. Since October, gunmen have killed 21 soldiers and officers, including a recently retired general who was assassinated in the resort of Cancún earlier this month. "The army used to be seen as the government's great deterrent," Crespo says. "But now what is the big stick that can be used against the cartels? Foreign intervention...
While some 75% of U.S. supplies gets into Afghanistan through Pakistan, those overland supply routes are coming under increasing insurgent attacks. Washington has won approval from Russia and Kazakhstan to ship non-lethal supplies (such as food and fuel) into Afghanistan by rail. Army General David Petraeus, chief of U.S. Central Command, was in Uzbekistan seeking similar rights this week, and the U.S. military is also studying routes through Tajikistan...
Egypt's attorney general cited "medical reasons" for Nour's release even though Egyptian courts had repeatedly denied Nour's request for a pardon on those grounds. Many see politics behind the decision. Mubarak, 80, wants to improve relations with the new Obama administration, following eight years of cold relations with the Bush administration that were frosty in part due to Nour's imprisonment. "Does Mubarak want to risk another four years of bad relations with the United States? I don't think so," says Hesham Kassem, former deputy leader of Nour's liberal, secular al-Ghad party. "If [Nour...