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...translating. The movement's backers say it developed spontaneously when local villagers grew tired of the Naxalites' brutal mafia-like tactics. Chhattisgarh police then appointed thousands of young men, some of them still teenagers, as "special police officers," supplied them with weapons and pushed them to fight the Maoists. Human-rights groups say the special police officers use many of the same tactics as the Naxalites, including extrajudicial killings. The Salwa Judum movement has also forced at least 60,000 people out of their villages (to prevent the Naxalites from recruiting them) and into temporary camps: sad, cramped settlements that...
...reality one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. Those who reside in the West Bank and Gaza as well as the millions of refugees forced to flee and never allowed to return acknowledge the day for what it is: the catastrophe. The continued violation of Palestinian human rights is clear and well-documented, albeit ferociously undermined and consciously distorted by Israel and Israel's U.S. supporters. It is ironic that 2008 is also the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the apartheid regime in South Africa, which only lasted 46 years before it collapsed under international pressure. When...
...Israel's continued violation of palestinian human rights is clear and well-documented, albeit undermined and distorted by Israel and its supporters. The apartheid regime in South Africa lasted 46 years before it collapsed under international pressure. When will that same pressure free the Palestinians? J.D. McRary, Clarkston, Georgia...
...Congratulations to the people of China. Their response to the recent disastrous earthquake has shown them at their compassionate and open best. China is indeed coming of age, and it's not about the Olympic Games. It's about valuing individual human lives. The contrast with Burma's reaction to its recent cyclone is staggering. This is no reflection on the Burmese people, but a disgraceful reproach to the rulers who cling to power at whatever price, even the sacrifice of their own citizens. Jenny Evans, Bundaberg, Queensland...
These people give Pisani powerful evidence that we must first accept an obvious truth: HIV is not spread by poverty or underdevelopment, as aid workers sometimes suggest, but by the specific - usually avoidable - actions of human beings. Mali is poorer than South Africa, and Bangladesh is poorer than Kenya; yet Mali and Bangladesh have low HIV rates. Fighting AIDS through poverty alleviation has so far had little impact on disease spread, Pisani argues. But targeted distribution of condoms and needles to sex workers and addicts, she says, has been proved to save lives and prevent epidemics at low cost...