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...what can be done? International envoys are cobbling together yet another round of peace talks, but for meaningful negotiations to proceed, security must first be restored. The initial step is to ensure that the peacekeepers protect the camps so aid workers can operate freely and escort humanitarian convoys. While there's a great deal of pressure on the Sudanese government, more could be applied to the rebels, who sometimes take international outrage over Darfur as a license for murder. And the aid community should increase efforts to service the Arab majority--people like Ahmed, who suffer many of the same...
...North Korean government in the past has executed captured refugees, but it does so inconsistently. Pyongyang sends some for extended stays in the country's horrific prisons. Aid groups and people active in the so-called underground railroad, which tries to move refugees into China and eventually to safety in Seoul, say the executions this week were probably meant to deter those fleeing because food is scarce. To North Koreans, the period just before the spring barley harvest is known as "barley hill." In the past, failure to get over the "hill" has meant death by starvation, particularly during...
...There are tens of thousands of North Korean refugees now living in China-no one knows the precise number-but in the past 18 months, aid groups say, Pyongyang has cracked down on what was a growing human tide seeking a slightly better life across the border. If accurate, the report of the executions, which came from Seoul's Good Friends Center for Peace, Human Rights and Refugees, sends a chilling message to those thinking about sneaking out of the country...
...South America, by which he meant a nation that believes its fight against terrorists and its U.S. backing give it carte blanche to enter neighboring countries. (The type of Colombian commando unit that killed Reyes is U.S.-trained, as part of Washington's $5 billion-plus Plan Colombia aid program, ostensibly directed at curbing the drug trade.) Although many Latin capitals have grown wary of Chavez's anti-American grandstanding, it is Washington's allies in Colombia that seem isolated in the region this week...
...could offer no remedy for his hostile home situation hundreds of miles to the south. Since his coming out, Brooks’ parents have stopped speaking to him—and cut him off financially. “I’m working, I’m getting financial aid, and I’m very grateful to Harvard,” he says, citing the differences in environment between home and Harvard. Only a few years into adulthood, Brooks has had to legally declare himself independent. But he’s out, in a happy relationship, and waging...