... soldiers and paramilitary police officers to put down the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which comprises approximately 5,000 guerrillas who have been waging a war for independence in the dense, mountainous forests for the past 30 years. Indonesia's military chief, General Endriatono Sutarto, has ordered his soldiers to ... guerrillas is that they enjoy the support of the vast majority of the Achenese. While the Achenese are mostly devout Muslims, this is not a war about religion, but about politics and economics. According to a recent report from the Rand Corporation, a U.S. Air Force think ...

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... the end of the 19th century women began to become educated. They began to prove their intelligent equality to men. As World War I came around women began to enter the workforce. With the men being killed in time of war it left a limited number of men to work in the factories. Women began to take over there parts. They were Finally given ... responsibility and respect for there work. By the time of World War II women had proven themselves in the workforce. They now could find employment, although there was still discrimination. During the 1950's Woman began to fight for liberation in the...

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... . The situation is a reflection of the corruption in the governments of countries such as Burma that are conveyors of this exploitation. Also at the mercy of exploitation are immigrants fleeing war torn countries and facing tuff immigration laws. These people are forced to live illegally and usually have to turn to more degrading conditions of work, because of their status as ... an illegal immigrant. It is a rather complex situation for these people fleeing their countries that have been ravaged by war or other problems. Other countries that are also infamous for exploitation are Bangla...

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... the one cent a day earned by 5-year-olds who weed the tea plantations in Sri Lanka (Michele Landsberg). In the Ashanti Goldfields (jointly owned by the Government of Ghana and a company called Lonrho International), 11-year-old boys labor naked in pools of cyanide to extract gold from rock (Michele Landsberg). Report from Human Rights Watch: two million children were killed ... of millions of people become refugees. More than half of them is children. Refugee children were among the most vulnerable children in the world. Not only had they suffered from war, but also many of them continu...

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... sixties and early seventies, but it definitely has not gone away either. I am completely against racism, but what I do not understand is how is it fair that if I went into a company and gave them my resume and a couple days later an African-American went to the same place and gave them a resume, then he or she would more likely get hired ... was, happiness and peace. If we all tried to have the same mind frame as the so-called "hippies" then our society would be a lot more peaceful. "Hippies" were against war, which if you ask me is not a bad thing. They were all about love and being ha...

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