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...Iraqi ambassadors sought asylum in Britain, protesting what they called the "reign of terror and misery" of Saddam Hussein. Both Hamed Al-Jubouri, who retired two weeks ago as ambassador to Tunisia, and Hisham Al-Shawi, ambassador to Canada, also joined the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization of anti-Saddam groups...
...city next to the ruins, and the group's guide refused to go near the place. The Mexicans were forced to content themselves with Phnom Penh -- a city whose attractions include the Tuol Sleng Museum, a high school used as a torture chamber and prison during Pol Pot's reign. Tourists who do make it to Angkor Wat are repeatedly reminded to stay on the paths; hundreds of Khmer Rouge land mines are buried around the temples. It is also advisable to give the Kalashnikov-toting militia men "guarding" the complex a dollar or two for their services -- so they...
Some of the most troubling examples of free speech being suppressed come in the margins of the University. As a result, too often Harvard midlevel administrators are allowed free reign over employees. This year brought several examples of such suppression to light. Two are instructive. Security guards in the Harvard Police Department said their bosses retaliated against them after they spoke out about discriminatory treatment-including retaliated against them after they spoke out about discriminatory treatment--including racial harassment on the job. One such guard lost his job, even as the University was patting itself on the back for opening...
...country that lost more than 1 million citizens to execution, starvation and disease caused by the cruel depredations of an outlaw regime possibly welcome back the architects of such madness? It is one of the saddest ironies in Cambodia today that the Khmer Rouge, whose reign of terror lasted from 1975 to 1979, have clawed their way back to a modicum of power. As the country's first democratic balloting in three decades begins this week, the party threatening to wreck the election is none other than the Khmer Rouge. Hope that the vote might usher in peace, along with...
...communist state. Villagers in Khmer Rouge zones were encouraged to cultivate their own plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years of Pol Pot's reign, they suffered far less than urbanites, who were sent to work under harsh conditions in the fields, where they died by the thousands...