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Munir had been an activist since his law school days, concentrating on labor rights, a sensitive field during the rule of President Suharto. After Suharto's ouster in 1998, two NGOs?an Islamic student organization and the Association of Independent Journalists?set up Kontras, which stands for the Commission for...
For decades it has been the Muslims of southern Thailand?one of the country's poorest regions?who have felt marginalized and persecuted. Although they form the majority here, they own less than 30% of the region's businesses. Unemployment forces tens of thousands of men across the border to...
Your article "Iraq's Shadow Ruler" [Oct. 25], on Islamic Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, stated, "The version of democracy [the U.S.] went to war to create in Iraq may not be the one it gets. To achieve a stable, free Iraq, there's no going around...
But Arafat couldn't make the final leap of faith. To reach an agreement with Israel on a Palestinian state, Arafat knew, would require deep compromises on what have become almost sacred demands among his people: that traditionally Arab East Jerusalem, including Islamic holy sites in the Old City, become...
He came to learn the limitations of his power after he arrived in the Palestinian territories following an absence of a quarter-century. His hard-line critics remarked that he had been reduced to the status of "governor of Gaza," responsible for such matters as trash collection. Arafat, who loved...