Word: tribalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were several reasons why the generals decided to take a gamble on Suu Kyi's release. First, the domestic political situation is more stable than it has been in the recent past: the government has concluded peace negotiations with 11 of the country's 12 major ethnic and tribal groups, and there haven't been recent student protests of importance. SLORC 's tailor-made constitution is nearly complete; it includes a provision that disqualifies for the presidency anyone wed to a foreigner, such as Suu Kyi, who is married to British academic Michael Aris. slorc's current leader, Senior...
Hanging up in his office in the maintenance shed is a souvenir print of an Indian in a headdress with this legend underneath: around this camp, there's only one chief. Smith, whose tribal name is Running Bear, is a benevolent chief. He is unfailingly considerate of his crew members, making sure they have enough money for lunch, enough passes for the Open, enough rest for what he calls "the war" -- when 156 golfers and 30,000 fans a day invade Shinnecock. A 1975 Dartmouth graduate, Smith thought he might become a teacher or a banker. "My father never meant...
...Dartmouth Smith took part in some of the student protests that helped persuade the college to shed its nickname, the Indians. "The nickname didn't bother me as much as the guys running around whooping and hollering," says Smith. Nowadays his politics concern his position as chairman of the tribal trustees for the 400 Shinnecocks living on the 800-acre reservation...
...with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. If Nelson Mandela can steer his nation safely past the tribal bloodbaths that drench the African continent, he will have fathered the eighth wonder of the world...
Trivial comparisons are possible, and we must watch out for them. The problems of abortion and urban poverty are not the tragedy of the Holocaust. But ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and tribal murder in Rwanda are comparable. At their essence is a desire to eradicate people because of their ancestry and their beliefs...