Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebel movement that now seems destined to form the next government of bloodstained Rwanda, that is a haunting lament. As they press their advantage against government troops and murderous Hutu militia, the rebels of the Rwandese Patriotic Front are beginning to realize how little of their tiny Central African homeland will be left for them if and when the R.P.F. takes control. Mile upon mile of terraced hillsides and thatch-roofed villages lies deserted. The reek of decomposing bodies and packs of well-fed dogs serve as the only reminders that this was once one of the most populous regions...
...Jericho, at long last commencing an experiment in self-government that eventually is to encompass the whole of the West Bank. For the P.L.O., testing time has arrived. By week's end the organization should have begun exercising power, though limited, for the first time ever in the Palestinian homeland...
...just claim of my people who demand some land." The fiery rhetoric inspired some of the 300 khaki-clad men and pistol-packing women to rough up and then oust a black American reporter attending the otherwise desultory rally. The motive behind all the violence: a whites-only homeland...
Viljoen was wooed away from the hard-liners with a promise from the African National Congress that a volkstaat council would be set up in the new government to explore the possibility of an Afrikaner homeland. The A.N.C. has largely defused the right-wing threat, placating many frightened whites by accepting a mandatory government of national unity for five years and guaranteeing jobs and pensions for more than 200,000 civil servants, policemen and soldiers...
Boyd would tend, in later life, to work in narrative series. In his homeland, probably the best known of them is a set of paintings mostly from 1957-58, done after visiting the squalid aboriginal encampments in central Australia made for people exiled within their own country and between two cultures. Known as the Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste series, these Chagall-like images may be flawed by sentimentality but they achieve at times a tragic gravity, and are virtually the first effort by a white Australian artist to express the guilt of racism...