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...memories of war are haunted most by the images of children fighting. Impassive Khmer Rouge kids, taught to massacre civilians, even their parents. Idi Amin's army of thugs, murderous preteens in wraparound sunglasses. Iranian ten-year-olds sent unarmed into battle as human minesweepers, with pictures of Khomeini pinned to their shirts. Now Mozambique is at the vanguard of the unconscionable. The Renamo rebels fighting the Chissano regime have become infamous for their instrumentalizados, children kidnaped by Renamo troops and not just trained to fight but also forced to slaughter and maim civilians...
...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...
...interest in homegrown perestroika. In Czechoslovakia, where leading dissident Vaclav Havel has been sentenced to jail, trials moved into a second month for other activists held on charges ranging from organizing peaceful antigovernment demonstrations to signing political petitions. And in Stalinist Rumania, party leader Nicolae Ceausescu remains the "Idi Amin of Communism," as his neighbors call him. The unregenerate totalitarian, obsessed with stamping his personal mark on the physiology and psychology of his country, brooks no opposition. When six retired high-ranking officials released a letter harshly condemning his brutally repressive regime, Ceausescu arrested...
Other simulations presented to the delegates included the formation of a white secessionist state in South Africa and a call for the return of former dictator Idi Amin to Uganda, according to Marc S. Sabatine '90, the specialized agencies undersecretary general...
...Lebanon in 1982, PLO terrorist attacks have killed 689 Israelis and wounded 3799. Civilians have been targeted in incidents such as the massacre of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. The PLO has financed and trained international terrorists, from the Japanese Red Army to Nicaraguan Sandinistas to Idi Amin's Ugandan henchmen. Arafat's recent overtures cannot camoflauge the blood on his hands...