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...Despite its Islamic overtones - insurgents rail against "Siamese infidels" - this is not a holy war but a rebellion driven by homegrown historical and political grievances. McCargo rightly scorns the legions of post-9/11 armchair analysts who try to shoehorn every conflict into well-Googled theories of global jihad. No armchairs for this author: he researched the book by crisscrossing southern Thailand in a temperamental 1989 Mercedes, hastening back to the town of Pattani by nightfall to avoid militant booby traps. McCargo is the real McCoy...
This week, a panel of Harvard ROTC students and a student protest against Harvard’s refusal to officially recognize ROTC reminded the campus of Harvard’s troubled relationship with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. During the Vietnam War, Harvard banned ROTC from campus and continues to impede student participation because of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy enacted in 1993. Because openly gay and lesbian students are excluded from ROTC under this policy, the University says that its refusal...
...some 110,000 civilians who have poured out of the war zone - a fast-shrinking sliver of land still under Tiger control - since April 20 when the army broke through a key embankment in an effort to bring an end to the 25-year conflict with the ethnic separatists...
...Lankan government estimates some 15,000 civilians are still trapped in the war zone; the U.N. says the number could be as high as 50,000. And food and medicine have been in short supply on the Tigers' side of the line. "For a family of four, they would give rations sufficient for two," Rageswari said, three days after fleeing the fighting while meeting a group of journalists flown in by the Sri Lankan military to Putumattalan, about a kilometer (half a mile) from the frontline...
...Meanwhile, several countries are trying to help forge a truce - or at least a temporary suspension of fighting - so government troops can get the remaining civilians out of the war zone. The Sri Lankan president met with high-ranking officials from India, just after its government condemned the killing of Tamil civilians. The U.S. has also expressed concern over the dangers faced by civilians, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is expected to visit the country in the coming days. The Tigers have indicated their willingness to agree to a truce but, according to U.N. officials, are still preventing civilians...