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...Khan was savagely bashed after he was arrested at a roadblock on Nov. 3. In the police station, "he was hit in the face without warning," says his partner Agnes Bulatiko. "Then the room filled with officers punching him. It was terrifying." At press time Khan was in hospital with a reported broken jaw and ribs; he had not been charged. Police said he had resisted arrest. Eleven men had appeared in court on charges of incitement to mutiny and conspiracy to murder. In a statement, Bainimarama said there were "disgruntled groups" in Fiji who "have the potential...
...worst consequences. That requires far-sighted political action from the top, starting in the capital of the world's biggest carbon emitter: Washington. Unfortunately, while scattered cities and states across America have begun to move on climate change - Gov. Schwarzenegger, take a bow - the federal government has been more roadblock than revolutionary...
Stephen Colbert’s short-lived presidential campaign has hit a major roadblock. Just weeks after the host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” announced that he would run in his home state of South Carolina—both as a Democrat and as a Republican—an executive committee has denied his bid to get on the ballot...
...street outside, the neighbor took her and the children to a military camp. The génocidaires showed up there asking for them, so he hid the family under some sacks of rice on a truck heading south to Butare. They were discovered en route at a Hutu militia roadblock, but the truck driver bought their freedom. Once in Butare, Jacqueline was reunited with her husband and the family hid for a further three years. Finally in 1998, with their home in Kigali destroyed, they returned to their ancestral village, Nyamata. Four years later, it was still littered with bodies...
...push for and oversight of many of these projects came from others in the administration. While the primary obstacle doubtlessly was the difficulty of accessing the necessary funds, Gross could have taken a more active role as an advocate for these projects, rather than sometimes being seen as the roadblock to them...