Word: lawlessness
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...impair national security or cause great harm to the national interest" and therefore ineligible to go abroad. Shocked and bewildered as to "how two ordinary workers could possess state secrets," Meng asked to see the charges against her in writing. The police denied her request and called her "wildly lawless." So the couple made the long trip to Beijing to petition the national police. Again they were turned away empty handed?instructed to write a letter detailing their complaint and ordered back to Wuhan to wait for the government's decision...
...southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims of Foca to leave after Serbs overran the town. Presiding judge Florence Mumba called the defendants "lawless opportunists [who] should expect no mercy" for their roles in a "nightmarish scheme of sexual exploitation." The judge noted that women and girls, one as young as 12 years old, were detained in various locations in Foca, taken out nightly to be gang-raped and tortured, "robbed of the last vestiges of human dignity...
...capitalize on this gullibility. Says General Ruben Cabignati, regional military commander based in the town of Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao: "I know of so many smart businessmen who have been tricked by these seemingly innocent natives." It helps that Mindanao's prolonged Muslim separatist insurgency has created a lawless haven for kidnappers, arms sellers, drug traffickers and itinerant counterfeiters...
...start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...
...they aimed to bring order and normality to the impoverished Caribbean state. U.S. peacekeeping forces restored Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency to which he had been freely elected in 1990. They sank almost $100 million into Haiti's police and judiciary. But today Haiti is as lawless as it is destitute. A breakdown in America's alliance with Aristide, who left office in 1996, helped create the kind of power vacuum drug lords love to fill. Now, after easily winning the presidency again last week, can Aristide do much about the problem...