Word: tribalized
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...after floating at sea for two days on a wooden door, she washed up on a Car Nicobar beach that was swarming with snakes. Newspapers wrote of refugees in Great Nicobar fending off crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks, "When the government can help other countries, why are they letting us down?" Says fellow survivor Aslam Majid, 22, who went five days without water: "People aren't dying from the tsunami. They...
...TIME at his palace in Khartoum and insisted that the international outcry over his country's rupture was a misunderstanding. There is "no reality," he said, to claims that the conflict is genocide, as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have said. It is "a tribal conflict," said al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup. The Janjaweed are merely "outlaws or gangsters who are used to being on horseback and holding arms or guns. They are bandits," he said. "It was started by this rebel group that tried to avenge losses against another...
...party are likely to emerge in a powerful position. Many observers believe al-Yawer has the potential to become what the new Iraq sorely lacks: a moderate Sunni leader who can unite disgruntled Sunnis without alienating the majority Shi'ites. "He has a lot of strengths--a tribal background, a modern attitude, youth," says Iyad al-Samarrai, secretary-general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni political group. "He will be an important political figure in Iraq for a long time." Juan Cole, an Iraq expert at the University of Michigan, says, "He's the great white hope...
...highlights of the show were the performances from soloists and their incredible harmonization with the mighty sound of the 90-member chorus. From voices reminiscent of Phantom of the Opera, to modern rhythms, to classical selections and back again to tribal hymns, the show captivated observers not just with beautiful music but with a well-constructed tempo...
...Meanwhile, despite craters and freshly burned huts and unexploded ordnance, the government denies that it has resumed air raids. In an interview with Time, Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir insisted the crisis was merely a "tribal conflict" that affects "only 6 percent of Greater Darfur" - this despite the fact that it has displaced a full one-third of Darfur's 5 million inhabitants. "Nobody wears a white hat here," says a senior Western diplomat in Khartoum...