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...been to Burma only once, in the late 1980s, and the seemingly placid surface of that exquisite nation hid the passions of a people who yearned for freedom. It was one of the world's forgotten tragedies, until, that is, Burma forced itself back into global consciousness last month when vivid images of protesting Buddhist monks slipped past the restrictions imposed by the country's repressive military regime. We published two quick news stories, but we also planned a bigger take, sending Bangkok-based writer Andrew Marshall into the country...
...Qaeda out of the urban areas and into a rough no-man's land to the north, sandwiching them precariously between his paratroopers and elements of the 10th Mountain Division. In and around Musayyib to the south, the Shi'ite groups have manned checkpoints along roadways that once hid bombs. Since late July, roughly about the time the militias started working, no one has attacked the paratroopers there...
...four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness of acts of female bravery. She demonstrates that courageous women can become as prominent as Harriet Tubman, but can equally remain as obscure as Harriet Jacobs, a slave who hid for seven years in her grandmother’s shed; what’s more, by including Jacobs, Ulrich convincingly suggests that her story of overcoming struggle belongs in history’s record books as much as Tubman’s does.But what makes “Well-Behaved Women” notable...
Francine Mukantarengwa is describing how she survived the genocide when my translator breaks down. "Fourteen people in my family were killed," she says. "The brother of the killer of my family - he hid me." At this point, the interpreter, a former fighter with Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), starts weeping. I let Francine go. She'd already told me about her life after the genocide. "I was abandoned," she said. "I was alone and I had nothing." And now? "Now I have goats, I have two cows, I have built a house. I have 700 coffee trees...
...started, then spent a week with her boy and girl hiding behind a cupboard in a neighbor's house. When the killing reached the street outside, the neighbor took her and the children to a military camp. The génocidaires showed up there asking for them, so he hid the family under some sacks of rice on a truck heading south to Butare. They were discovered en route at a Hutu militia roadblock, but the truck driver bought their freedom. Once in Butare, Jacqueline was reunited with her husband and the family hid for a further three years. Finally...