Word: tribalized
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...reduced to a kind of meaningless mantra, employed repeatedly to suggest credibility (and “reality”) where there was none. Now a species of government propaganda stands poised to cast the deciding vote for legitimate news’ expulsion from television’s tribal council: the pre-fabricated, ready-to-broadcast, government-produced news report...
...Court Battle PAKISTAN The Federal Shari'a Court in Islamabad, the country's highest Islamic judicial authority, ruled that it had sole jurisdiction in a high-profile rape case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal as a punishment. Poison Probe THE PHILIPPINES Authorities launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 27 elementary schoolchildren in the southern island of Bohol who were apparently poisoned by cassava sweets bought from street vendors. Health officials said the inquiry would focus...
...when businessmen got together in Riyadh and Jidda and elected boards for local chambers of commerce. By those standards, the elections for 178 municipal councils being held in three stages that began on Feb. 10 are a big deal. The regime hopes the election of Shi'ites and tribal leaders in parts of the country where they dominate will help loosen the grip the conservative Wahhabis hold on cultural and religious affairs. But the danger in acceding to Western demands for free elections is that they could result in handing the Islamists power at the ballot box. So far, Islamic...
...remote desert villages of Pakistan beyond the reach of government courts, tribal law is often the only adjudicator of local disputes?and the use of rape to settle scores is common. In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was publicly raped by four volunteers in the hamlet of Meerwala in central Pakistan on the orders of village elders. She had committed no crime: her 12-year-old brother had been accused of walking with a girl from the higher Mastoi caste, and Mai was chosen to bear the punishment for her family...
...Victims of such assaults are expected to suffer in silence?or kill themselves out of shame?but despite threats of violence, Mai pressed charges against her alleged assailants, becoming an icon in the fight to eliminate such barbaric tribal customs. (TIME named her one of Asia's Heroes last year for her defiance.) A conventional court sentenced six men to death in August 2002 for ordering and carrying out the gang rape, and Mai used the $8,300 awarded to her by the government to open a village school...