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...Ishak's wife has good reason to be scared, as do many of the province's 4 million residents. Although the Indonesian government formally lifted a yearlong state of martial law in Aceh in mid-May, there has been no discernible difference in the lives?and deaths?of ordinary Acehnese. The army has yet to announce the withdrawal of any of the approximately 50,000 soldiers and police sent in to crush the separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (also known by its Indonesian acronym G.A.M.). Bloody clashes are an almost daily occurrence, with security forces claiming to have...
...world as the willful young heroine of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Cannes this year she was radiant in two fine films: 2046, where she managed to outshine longtime mesmerizers Gong Li and Faye Wong; and Zhang Yimou's own House of Flying Daggers, a follow-up to his martial-arts epic Hero...
SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to one year in jail and a bad-conduct discharge; for taking pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated; in the first court-martial stemming from abuse at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad...
...According to the U.S., Jenkins defected to North Korea as a 24-year-old U.S. Army sergeant in 1965 while he was on patrol near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and Washington wants to court-martial him. (His relatives in the U.S. maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush...
...with everyone." Investigators asked him whether anyone up the chain of command was present at those late-night sessions. "Hell no," he answered, "because our command would have slammed us. If they saw what was going on, there would be hell to pay." Sivits--who faces a special court-martial this week on charges revolving around photographing the maltreatment--is expected to plead guilty in exchange for a maximum sentence of a year in jail--and to repeat his testimony against the other accused...