The Syrian uprising is being abandoned by — and abandoning – those who most believe in it.
Syrian Rebels Doing Best They Can to Alienate Supporters
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Human Rights
Restoring Slovenia’s Erased
The Erasure took place in 1992, the first organization of the Erased was founded in 2002, and victory was secured in 2012.
Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland
Over a weekend of memorials, I was remembering a friend who died of a broken heart. Her death certificate may not say so, but she did. Aurélie Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren—profound sorrow. Madame Talate died of sagren because the U.S. and British governments exiled her and the rest of her Chagossian people from their homeland in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago to create a secretive military base on Chagos’ largest island, Diego Garcia.
The Dying Sahara: Jeremy Keenan’s Latest Book Reviewed
The British anthropologist has published his second volume on growing instability in the Sahara.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/24)
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Yugoslavia: When a Country Actually Is Wiped Off the Map
When Yugoslavia fell apart in the early 1990s, most people simply became citizens of what had once been its constituent republics: Croatia, Bosnia, etc. But for some, it was not a simple process.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/22)
Emphasis, as always, added.
The Jig Is Up in Guatemala
Guatemala’s highest court, ruling on appeals filed by the defense, has annulled former dictator Jose Efrain Ríos Montt’s 80-year sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity. The Constitutional Court declared invalid all proceedings that took place after April 19, including the verdict and sentencing. Whether the trial can be picked up again from that date is unclear. What is clear, however, is that the trial has lifted the curtain on Guatemala’s bloody past. The verdict reached far beyond the question of how a man who once commanded a brutal army will spend his last years.
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. Admitted Not Just Nazis After WWII, But Their Sadistic Collaborators
Richard Rashke’s definitive new book Useful Enemies reviewed.
In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated
More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human rights and political reforms promised to them by their government. Rather than meet the opposition’s calls for reform, the government of Bahrain has responded by subjecting citizens to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, interrogation, torture, and abuse.