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...weeks ago, the government of Nigeria demonstrated its contempt for justice by hanging Ken Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...
...journalistic reputation with a witty political column in her father's daily Kathimerini before assuming control of the paper in 1951. She shut the paper down in the late '60s in protest against the military dictators ruling Greece. Escaping house arrest, she fled to London and campaigned against the junta...
...history of Myanmar, as Burma is now called, resonates with melodrama and tragedy. The heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...
While in Algeria the junta brazenly ignored the popular vote in democratic elections, in Egypt the dictatorial regime of Mubarak, who has been in power for 14 years, launched massive pre-emptive strikes against similar rising political forces in the form of Islamic movements. This initial action led to cycles of violence by the government and opposition. The long-term interests of the West will be served not by inventing an Islamic bogeyman in another sovereign nation and propping up authoritarian regimes, but by pressuring these so-called allies to begin to practice unadulterated democracy along with a spirit...
...that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that's sure is that Aung San Suu Kyi cannot conceive of freedom simply -- and the fate of her country may depend on her subtlety...