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...canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months later on a piece of a bolt of burlap bought for Arles by Gauguin. It is curiously muted and its authenticity has been questioned, but extensive research in preparation for this exhibition indicates that the picture is indeed...
...Voyage to Nowhere After spending 26 days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...physical abuse, malnutrition and desperately unsanitary conditions - and hundreds of cases of abuse are on file with human rights attorneys. In perhaps the best known documentation of such treatment, Fauziya Kassindja's 1998 autobiography "Do They Hear You When You Cry" details her flight from threatened genital mutilation in Togo to the United States, where she was imprisoned for months, waiting for legal help and suffering extraordinary physical and emotional distress...
...group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled are demanding the same consideration. Says Bill Strassberger, an INS spokesman: "Cases that involve persons seeking asylum directly based upon a handicap seem to be a recent development...
...inaction by the U.S. responsible for the massacre of up to 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994? At a summit meeting opening Monday in Togo, the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY is expected to request reparations from the U.S. and other members of the U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL for failing to stop the slaughter. The demands are fueled by a 318-page report, Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, commissioned by the OAU and released on Friday. The report charges that Washington had full knowledge of the genocide but "repeatedly and deliberately undermined all attempts to strengthen the U.N. military presence in Rwanda...