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...brief review of weaver Edwin Sulca’s biography goes a long way in explaining why his tapestries are infused with such hope and pain. Sulca is a native of Ayacucho, the Peruvian city which bore the brunt of the violent conflict between the government and the guerrilla movement Shining Path during the 1970s and ’80s. After surviving more than twenty years of civil war, Sulca has created a series of weavings that contribute to the resurgence of color and song...
...months, and his tanks and planes are pulverizing Palestinian targets, but it's the Israeli leader who now appears to be under siege. Israeli forces killed some 16 Palestinians Wednesday in raids across the West Bank and Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died in a spasm of bloodletting since Monday, from which two simple facts emerged: Palestinian militants have...
...under the collapsing wall of a house being destroyed by his forces. The escalating body count underscores the new reality: that Hamas has in recent weeks managed to deploy homemade, remote-control rockets that can be fired into Israel, and that Palestinian militants now are waging a full-blown guerrilla war with multiple attacks on a daily basis...
...prostitutes and drug addicts on the streets of Harlem in the 1950s; in New York City. Published in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED. ANI PACHEN, 69, courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting in 1960 to flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION...
...their side of the divide than that of their Israeli counterparts. And even if the PA was tempted to resort now to the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi, the men in charge of the militias and terrorist cells on the ground who actually carry out the suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks have a way of imposing their own ideas...