Word: rebel
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...autocratic government and the suspension of civil liberties during Indira Gandhi's 1975-1977 Emergency, Bachchan played a series of angry young men who dared to take on a venal, feudal establishment. To millions of cinemagoers catching a brief respite from their hardscrabble lives, he was the Indian rebel with a cause...
...afraid, but when you shoot you get that strength. What they don't know is, you can die at once." When the spla's factions turned on each other, Jal and about 400 other boys trekked out in search of safety. Weeks later, when they reached a rival rebel camp in Waat, they numbered fewer than a dozen; the rest had died from fighting, starvation, animal attacks and suicides. It was at this camp that Jal met Emma McCune, a British aid worker who took a shine to the boy, adopted him and smuggled him onto a flight...
...feel sad ... she is like my wife, because I sleep with her. [But] I also am happy because I want to see Aceh like it was, at peace." MUZAKIR,a member of Indonesia's rebel Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.), on surrendering his rifle to foreign cease-fire monitors as part of a historic peace agreement with the Indonesian government...
...progress in the effort to defuse the insurgency through dealmaking has been slow--and in some cases has led the U.S. to ease pressure on individuals tied to rebel groups. Consider the careful handling of Harith al-Dhari, chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars and one of Iraq's most important Sunni leaders. In late 2003, several insurgent groups began to meet regularly in the Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad, over which al-Dhari presides. According to U.S. intelligence reports, al-Dhari--who has said he might encourage his organization to take part in the democratic process...
...April 2004, U.S. military-intelligence officers were also holding face-to-face talks with Abdullah al-Janabi, a rebel leader from Fallujah. The meetings ended after al-Zarqawi--who had taken up residence in Fallujah--threatened to kill al-Janabi if the talks continued, according to U.S. and Iraqi sources. But attempts to negotiate with other insurgents are continuing, including with Saddam's former religious adviser. So far, the effort has been futile. "We keep hoping they'll come up with a Gerry Adams," says a U.S. intelligence official, referring to the leader of the Irish Republican Army's political...