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...This distinction is narrow and dishonorable, says Sunai Phasuk, a Thai academic and consultant for Human Rights Watch (HRW). "These people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern...
...first modulating her tone, Ana explains why she left Argentina so suddenly, without saying goodbye to anyone. It is a tale of midnight abduction, a blow to her head--and waking up naked, tied to a table prepared for torture. Her ordeal continued for 36 days and ultimately included rape. The world she has traveled since is not large enough to escape the memory of those agonies. And there will never be time enough to forget them...
Next week Spitzer and some of his colleagues will address two more highly charged issues, both of intense interest to feminists: proposed categories for premenstrual syndrome and for men who rape compulsively. Feminists, aghast at the possibility of a legal defense built around the new disorder of "paraphilic rapism," are likely to see that it remains no category at all. --By John...
...chubby youth raised popular hopes by promising economic reforms and easing some of his father's police-state tactics. But if the younger Duvalier at first proved less tyrannical than his father, he and his cronies did not hesitate to carry out what one businessman calls "the economic rape of Haiti." Among the worst offenders were the ministers fired last week, all of whom are said to have become wealthy during their government service. The four have been given their choice of diplomatic posts abroad. "It's early retirement for our supermillionaires," scoffed one businessman...
...studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also...