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...Resistance Army. The conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead and 1.2 million displaced. UNight co-founder Daniella L. Boston ’05 began her presentation on the situation in Uganda by screening a short documentary that captured the horrific conditions of concentration camps in Norther Uganda. The film provided alarming statistics on the lack of access to water and basic health care. “Unlike the situation in Darfur, the Ugandan crisis has gone on for twenty years,” Boston said. “Nine percent of the population is trapped in these camps, where...
...NORTHER IRAQ...
...have a way of ending abruptly in floods. Nature bangs around sometimes giving melodramatic and even lunatic performances. Now, in winter, the temperature will rise to 70° F or so one day, and the next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous or the unavoidable. "And the fence blew down...
...CONCUR with one of the sentiments expressed in the majority position, difficult as it is to discern, buried beneath unneccesarily romanticized rhetoric. Eventual withdrawal of British troops from Norther Ireland will have to be part of any settlement there; immediate extraction of the British forces would undoubtedly lead to bloodshed far worse that that which has in recent years afflicted Northern Ireland. British withdrawl must therefore be part of a broad program for peace worked out by London, Dublin, and Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Such a solution would have to include the eventual unification of Ireland, coupled with...
...resort to violence to achieve their goals. We further believe that the majority's linking of a settlement in Ireland to the need for IRA violence displays a lack of understanding for the complexities of the Irish situation and a shocking disregard for peace and for the people of Norther Ireland--Catholic and Protestant--who are tired of the violence...