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...displaced people during the 20-year war, can return home. Says Akuma, "[the rebels] should also come back peacefully so that we can finally leave these camps." Many of the displaced believe that their tormentors should be put through the traditional justice of the Acholi people - a ritual called mato oput that requires a murderer to face relatives of the victim and admit his crime, leading to both parties drinking a bitter brew as an act of reconciliation...
...accused rebels, of course, are all for mato oput. LRA leader Joseph Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...
...Imagining a New NATO In Light of the Global Threat of Terrorism, Walter Isaacson asked, "What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now?" [Feb. 5]. Isaacson suggested that they might be forging a Mideast Antiterrorism Organization (MATO) whose members would include Israel and Iraq. I doubt it. I rather suspect that Marshall and Acheson would be saying they told us so. Both men were vehemently opposed to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine because they recognized that it was immoral and that it would open up a can of worms that would haunt the region...
...Isaacson's proposal for a MATO is such a simple yet sound idea. The U.S. has squandered much of its soft power-the goodwill of so much of the world after 9/11-and is bumping up against the limits of its hard power. A MATO is much needed, sooner rather than later. Quincy Scott San Antonio, Texas...
...Isaacson's proposal for a MATO is such a simple yet sound idea. The U.S. has squandered much of its soft power - the good will of so much of the world after 9/11 - and is bumping up against the limits of its hard power. A MATO is much needed, sooner rather than later. Quincy Scott San Antonio, Texas...