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...charges revived memories of the Shining Path terror campaign in the 1980s and 1990s and the military response to it. A commission that investigated 20 years of political violence between 1980 and 2000 reported that more than 70,000 people were killed or missing because of political violence, with the Shining Path responsible for more than 50%. Until this attack, the Shining Path had been fading slowly since its top leaders were caught in 1992. Guibovich estimated that the outlawed party has around 300 armed fighters in the VRAE. A smaller number of armed guerrillas are also active in another...
...roiling debt markets finally slopped over to equities in full force. The euphoria of the last hour of trading on Friday - when major markets turned positive and then ended the day only slightly down, with the Dow dropping a relatively modest 128 points, to 8,451.19 - hardly offset the terror of a rambunctious 700-point drop in the Dow at the opening bell. Events were so overwhelming that when the cost of a barrel of oil hit a 13-month low, the news barely registered. At 2 p.m., the VIX - a measure of expected stock-market volatility often taken...
...well as the Ba’ath party. The violence ranged from the threat of rape to sexual harassment by party officials, sexual enslavement to gang rape, and to forced nudity which Higonnet called a staple of detention facilities. Higonnet said the data depict the culture of misogyny and terror that prevailed during Hussein’s “development of a professional class of torturers in a systematic, pyramidally structured society.” The goal of this sexual violence was to suppress dissension through targeting culturally sensitive ideas of honor and respect. After the 2003 U.S. invasion...
...world, with 71 percent of Indians holding a favorable view of the United States. But mutual admiration does not change the simple fact that the U.S. and India have different sets of interests. While these sometimes align with global interests, as they have in the war on terror, or just align with each other, as the recent strengthening of alliances in the face of China’s rise, there are other instances when their interests are diametrically opposed...
...torture and assassination. But after 14 years as South Africa's ruling party, an internal power struggle appears to have finally torn it apart. Senior members of the party on Wednesday announced plans to leave ANC and form a new political party. At a press conference in Johannesburg, Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, a former political prisoner who served as national chairman of the party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party members and others to discuss "how to defend democracy in this...