Word: tribalized
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...interim administration of Hamid Karzai moved a step closer to fully representative government with the naming of a 21-person commission to oversee the political process. The U.N.-appointed commission, announced during the first visit in 40 years by a U.N. Secretary-General, will convene a council of tribal elders to appoint a two-year transitional government. Donor countries linked pledges of more than $5 billion in international aid to democratic controls. But security remained a key issue as U.S. forces near Kandahar killed 15 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the fiercest clashes...
...front of Queen Jerri and the assembled cool crowd, offering up his razors with a truly pathetic look on his face. And if you're an Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
What is even more disturbing is that in reinventing Rwandan society, the RPF sometimes relies on the same authoritarian structures that made the genocide possible in the first place. Forget the stereotypes of "tribal chaos" and "failed states" that are used to describe the massacres. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to slaughter their neighbors every day for three months required a dense, centralized network of administration...
...stop was the National Races Museum?actually a kind of human zoo populated by members of the myriad ethnic groups living within Burma's borders. Chinese tourists streamed in boisterous high spirits through a decorative wooden gateway flanked by two lookout posts, each occupied by a man in faux-tribal dress blowing wearily on a conch shell. All the exhibits in this museum were alive, of course, although there was a lot of cheating. The young woman in Akha tribal costume standing at the gate?the one playing the Game Boy?was a local Shan. So was the Lahu girl...
...Afterward one of the girls sat on the grass combing her wet hair. I asked her what aspect of tribal culture her display was meant to illustrate. "We are Burman ladies washing and playing with water," she explained sweetly...