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...killing fields" is how Cambodian-born photojournalist Dith Pran described the grim heaps of human remains strewn across his homeland by the Khmer Rouge--a name later given to the 1984 Academy Award--winning film that depicted his 4 1/2 year struggle to survive as a prisoner of the brutal communist regime. A photographer and an interpreter for New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose work was the basis for the film, Dith was captured after staying in Phnom Penh to help document the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. When he escaped in 1979, he moved to New York City...
...crime statistics released by the South African Police Service (SAPS) make grim reading: 19,202 murders; 52, 617 rapes; 12,761 home invasions; 13,599 carjackings; 92,021 aggravated robberies - and all of that just in the past year. And writers trying to make sense of that violent social landscape are turning increasingly to the crime genre. During the apartheid years, most would have found it unconscionable to write from a pro-police point of view, but the demise of apartheid has changed the equation. One of the new crime authors, Andrew Brown, whose Coldsleep Lullabye won the 2006 Sunday...
...There is no blinking the fact that Stop-Loss is a relentlessly grim film. Every movie so far made about the war in Iraq - both fictional and documentary - has failed at the box office, and there is no reason to suppose that this one's fate will be any different. It is not just that we don't want to confront the costs and consequences of that conflict when we are out for a good time at the movies. It is also that we don't want to acknowledge that this war has largely been fought by a victim class...
News from the south of Iraq was no less grim. In Basra, Iraqi forces pressed their three-day offensive against what both Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to call "criminal elements." Spokesmen for Moqtada al-Sadr have openly denounced the military campaign and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces. In what is widely regarded as an effort to maintain the precarious ceasefire renewed by Sadr in February, both coalition forces and the Iraqi military have carefully avoided referring to the armed fighters as Sadr's supporters, but rather as unaffiliated criminals and thugs. "The operation in Basra...
...Tuesday, a grim-faced Musharraf administered Gilani's oath of office at the presidential palace. For Gilani it was a moment of triumph - in 2001 Musharraf imprisoned the longtime Bhutto supporter for nearly five years on corruption charges. After the ceremony Musharraf told state-owned television that he would "always extend my fullest cooperation" to Gilani and the new government. But he may find that the new government has other plans...