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Wednesday 16 March 2016

The Grammar of Impotence ...

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The Grammar of Impotence

 
 

UN Security Council resolutions are carefully worded in diplomatic language. Faced with their own division, what words have they used to deal with the carnage of the Syrian civil war?



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Scientists help Vietnam's rice farmers adapt to climate change, amid major drought

 
 

Scientists are developing more resistant varieties of rice to help farmers in Vietnam adapt to climate change, amid the country's worst drought in 90 years.



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Myanmar refugees in China caught between political fault lines

 
 

More than one year after war erupted between Myanmar's military and an ethnic insurgent group, thousands of refugees who crossed the border into China are ignored by both governments as well as the international community.



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Look back and learn: Safe zones in Iraq and Bosnia

 
 

A long-standing Turkish proposal to create a so-called safe zone inside Syria has received an apparent endorsement from European leaders, but do safe zones actually work?



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-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”

-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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