Word: tribalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...armed troops (or even with much stronger forces) was harebrained, no matter what political deal may yet be cobbled together. Bosnia presented the strongest case for intervention, but it would have been a mistake as well, even if limited to air strikes, which could hardly have curbed the deep tribal hatreds at the dark heart of the struggle. The Clinton Administration's fault was promising action, then pulling back. Only when and if what is essentially a civil war were to become an international conflict would military intervention be justified. Compelling as the moral and humanitarian demands are, we must...
...bones are from 25 Cheyenne tribal members who escaped from a reservation in Oklahoma and died on the way to Montana, the original home of their tribe, according to an article Sunday in The New York Times...
...remains, which date back to 1878, were returned in order to comply with the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which mandates that federally funded museums--such as the Peabody--itemize and offer their Native American possessions to the appropriate tribal owners...
Clinton's plans for intervention in Bosnia met with a chorus of teeth-chattering. We fear the Balkans; we fear the fierce, tribal warfare and the lack of clear boundaries. Most of us opposed sending any troops to Bosnia, no matter how limited the mission's objectives. But in Somalia--a land of fierce, tribal warfare, where clear boundaries are hard to find--we feared...
...situation is unlike the popular uprisings that forced Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos into exile and brought down the Berlin Wall. Rebellious Nigerians face a government willing to use force to keep itself alive. Anonymous circulars warning of tribal violence among the nation's three largest ethnic groups -- Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa -- appeared in Lagos' crowded slums, setting off a massive exodus. Those with means sent their families out of the country. The poor, the overwhelming majority, sent their children to home villages in the countryside. State security officers and riot police & rounded up human-rights leaders and interrogated them. False...