Word: oppressor
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...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
...Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says. "I got to understand oppression, especially the kind that can open a door and say, 'Well, you can leave any time you like.' " Mullan's harsh depiction of life at the infamous Magdalenes, the last of which closed in 1996, has earned him not only plaudits but also...
...faces a similar threat from the current government: at least two of his songs have been banned from Zimbabwean radio for their political content (which unmistakeably critices the regime) and Mapfumo has relocated to the US. The oppressor may have changed, but in the minds of Zimbabweans and others, Mapfumo remains the quintessential musician of the people, articulating and narrating their struggle...
Julia, played convincingly by Irene Daly, embodies the woman ruled by self-doubt. She is a cripple with vivid delusions of an unseen oppressor who, in one scene, forces her to recite a prayer that calls women unclean creatures denied entrance into heaven...
...Israel: politically (notably at the U.N.), economically ($840 million in aid annually) and militarily ($3 billion more, plus access to advanced U.S. weapons). To a majority of Arabs, Israel, as a Jewish state, is an unwelcome, alien entity. Even to those who accept its existence, Israel is an oppressor of Arab rights; despite the Oslo peace process, it still occupies most of the Palestinian territories. Particularly egregious to Muslims is Israel's control over Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, the third most sacred city to Islam...