Word: warring
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...today’s most fearless journalists—not to mention one of the most highly respected names on television—Amanpour’s accomplishments speak for themselves. From her impassioned coverage of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War to her famed 2002 phone interview with Yasser Arafat, Amanpour has reported on location from more danger zones and interviewed more notorious and controversial figures than most of her colleagues in either Europe or the United States. With her own show, “Amanpour,” which debuted this past September...
...while panelists defended Bush-era security policy, an anti-war reception was filled to capacity. The audience enthusiastically greeted a surprise visit from Dick Cheney, even as others railed against the Patriot Act his team crafted. Activists defended the legalization of marijuana in the hallways, and a new group called Whole Life sought to expand the pro-life movement into one with a larger social justice message. In the Exhibition Hall two booths down from the National Organization for Marriage, members of GOProud advocated for gay rights. And this wasn’t voluntary cognitive dissonance. It was the marketplace...
...have to leave the neighborhood," says a community leader who has received death threats and did not want to be named for security reasons. Eduardo says criminal bands like his have to kill the family members and friends of enemies in order to win their battles. "This war touches everyone," he says. As a result of the drug wars, the number of people forced to leave their homes has surged, says Aristizábal. Last year, 2,650 displaced people registered with Medellín's ombudsman's office. (See pictures of Mexico City's police fighting crime...
...doubled in 2009, to 2,899, according to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science. It was the largest number of homicides since 2002, when there were some 5,000 murders (there were an estimated 6,500 in 1991). The situation is directly attributable to a drug war that has once again engulfed the hillsides ringing the city. Reports in the Colombian press had the number of murders at 230 in January of this year. Behind the surge of violence is a battle over power and territory between warring factions of a cartel-like network of criminal bands...
...mayor and others have criticized the strategy, fearing it will turn students into targets of the conflict. Eduardo says the criminal underworld will be forced to respond by hiring people to spy on the student informants. "We'll have to involve a new bunch of people in this war," he says...