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The NY Times has this personal story of two sides of the ethnic conflict in Western China. Really great read.
"...“Call him on his cellphone,” Ms. Zhang, 46, recalled shouting to a cousin. “Tell him we want him home. We don’t need him to go back.”
Her son, Lu Huakun, did not answer the call. Three hours later, after the screaming had died down, Ms. Zhang went out into the street. A dozen bodies were strewn about. She found her son, his head covered with blood, his left arm nearly severed into three pieces.
The killing of Mr. Lu, 25, was a ruinous end to the journey of a family that had fled their poor farming village in central China more than a decade ago to forge a new life here in China’s remote desert region.... "
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- afitzgerald
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The Facebook page of tehranbureau.com with regular updates. Great source of info.
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- afitzgerald
- 4 months ago
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From FP Passport:
"Before the G-8 summit began, intrepid Guardian reporter John Hooper infiltrated the L'Aquila barracks hosting world leaders and discovered a makeshift basketball court constructed especially to make Barack Obama feel welcome. "
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- afitzgerald
- 4 months ago
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A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON
Iran's opposition groups have called for demonstrations on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of a violent student uprising that rocked the Islamic Republic in 1999.The protests then, triggered by the closure of a pro-reform paper, lasted several days and resulted in four deaths.
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari reports on the significance of this 10 year anniversary.
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Great find, andyjoe. Perfect context for today's demonstrations.
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- afitzgerald
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