Word: tribalized
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...That doesn't make them any less dangerous--especially since Iraq is one of the most heavily armed nations on Earth--when crossed. The British died, al-Ebadi thinks, in compliance with old local customs. British troops killed Iraqi civilians, so Iraqi civilians killed other British troops. "In a tribal society," says al-Ebadi, "justice is simple...
...Southern Iraq, local tribal leaders have sorted out property disputes and murder cases for centuries without the help of police and courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four...
...Ghana and U.N. peacekeepers failed to halt fighting in the eastern Ituri region of Congo. The Liberian talks had started a week previously but stalled as rebel troops attacked Monrovia, and a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone indicted President Charles Taylor for war crimes. And in Congo, tribal fighting and massacres of civilians continued a week after a French-led, U.N.-backed force began peacekeeping duties, and as a U.N. Security Council delegation visited the regional capital, Bunia. The intervention force will reach its full operational strength of 1,400 by the end of July. Aid organizations called...
...There, residents have taken to dwelling permanently in makeshift tree houses because rampaging herds of angry elephants have flattened all the human settlements on the ground. "Who lives in trees? Human beings or monkeys?" asks despondent villager Ramesh Dehri, a 35-year-old aboriginal hill-tribe leader. "In this tribal land, we have been reduced to monkeys...
...These ideological fault lines translate at ground level into real, geographical divisions. The poor, who tend to be more fundamentalist, live mostly in dust-blown shanties on the outskirts of town. There, they clan together, Pathans with Pathans, Baluchis with Baluchis, seeking to replicate their tribal life from their homelands. In some ghettos the clergymen have banned television, women wear burqas and the only education on offer for youngsters is the mesmeric recitation of the Koran at local madrasahs. Crimes are punished by elders inside the community according to Koranic law, and the police never hear about the transgressions...