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...which painted the defection of the more serious members of his court (they wore suits and ties instead of t-shirts or fishnets), in the light of extreme annoyance rather than rebellion. As played by Polk, he was almost too childish to be taken seriously as a power to rebel against, with a boozy swagger and jovialness that implies a sense of invulnerability and which is gradually chipped away over the course of the play.Instead of Richard, the character who defined the action was antagonist Bolingbroke. Played by Daniel R. Pecci ’09, who gave the character...
...which was mentioned by talk show host Oprah Winfrey on her show last week, tells the stories of “night commuters,” the 40,000 children who walk for hours every night to avoid being abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel force led by self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony...
...year-old Anoja Kugenthirasah, an ethnic Tamil from the village of Poovarasakulam, a few kilometers from the de facto border between government and rebel territory in northern Sri Lanka. Around 1:25 p.m. last Tuesday, Kugenthirasah arrived at the front gate of the Sri Lankan army headquarters in the capital Colombo, produced an identity card, and named an officer she said was her husband. Indicating her bump, she told the guards she was due at the army clinic for a check...
...Though they denied involvement, Kugenthirasah was thought to be a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), a rebel group that has been fighting for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka for 23 years. In February 2002 the Tigers signed a ceasefire with the Sinhalese-dominated government in the south. But sporadic attacks and killings have persisted since. The April 7 assassination of a pro-L.T.T.E. Tamil activist marked the beginning of a fresh escalation of tit-for-tat violence. Kugenthirasah's suicide attack sent that into overdrive. The Sri Lankan...
...knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E. in Geneva on May 10. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives in Colombo, says the situation merely "smells...