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This is Tsvangirai's gamble. He wants the people who tried to kill him to believe he bears no grudge. (Since his wife died in March in a car accident in which he was also hurt, Tsvangirai finds himself repeatedly assuring his supporters that the crash was not another murder attempt.) He wants Zimbabweans and the world to rethink how they deal with Mugabe and other African Big Men. Demonizing them may be principled and cathartic, Tsvangirai believes, but it is ineffective. Criticism has done nothing to dislodge Muammar Gaddafi in Libya (in his 40th year in power...
...punitive attacks against the families of suspected rebels. She also exposed the public execution of a young suspected separatist by a Chechen security officer. "She was fearless, and boldly defended the truth," Shamkhan Akbulatov, head of Memorial in Chechnya, told a Russian news agency. On the day of her murder, Russian human-rights groups released a report, which she had helped research, that exhaustively documented atrocities committed by all sides during the two Chechen wars...
...exact opposite was foretold by the husband whose murder she vowed to avenge and whose political legacy she promised to preserve. Anyone who succeeded Ferdinand Marcos, Benigno Aquino declared, would smell like horse manure six months after taking power. The residual effects of the dictatorship of Marcos and his wife Imelda, he said, could guarantee no success - only disaster, despair and failure. (See Aquino's life in photos...
Copney's defense attorney, J. W. Carney, Jr., said after last Wednesday's arraignment that he has yet to see "any evidence whatsoever" from the Commonwealth indicating that his client was "a participant in the murder." Carney also noted that Copney—who he said was in a "surprisingly good" mood—is a Christian and prays each morning and evening...
Copney was seen leaving Kirkland House immediately after the shooting carrying a gun, police say. That weapon, a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, has been recovered and determined to have been in Copney's possession immediately after the murder. A report of the incident by prosecutors says that the pistol was of the same caliber as casings found at the scene, and a jacket worn by Copney the day of shooting also tested positive for gunshot residue...