Extrajudicial killings

In a span of 100 days, Cruden claims that between 500,000-1, 000,000 Rwandans were killed in inter-clan clashes . At the height of the clashes, leading economic powers refused to act and stop the menace with some aiding in the mass killings. The US evacuated its diplomats and avoided any conflict with the natives after paying a huge price when its forces ventured in Somalia. The UN independently intervened to stop the genocide but the support troops were hardly enough to sustain the…

Introduction The Republic of The Philippines is a Presidential Republic located in Southeast Asia. The Philippines consists of a group of over 7,100 islands, which is an area slightly larger than the state of Arizona (Factbook, 2010). With an estimated population of just more than 100 million people, The Philippines is very diverse in ethnic groups, languages and religions. The nation is also very rich in natural resources to include major deposits of copper, chromium, gold as well as producing…

I. Southeast Asian countries, due to their historical and social complexity, continue to deviate from widely held political theories. In this paper, I will employ the work of Alexis De Tocqueville and Robert Putnam to show how the Philippines and Thailand prove to be enigmatic in that regard. I argue that we see a largely active civil society but low democratization in Thailand and the Philippines owing to their authoritarian histories and lack of democratic institutionalization. I chose to…

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The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) director Ken Loach has repeatedly admitted that The Battle of Algiers (1966) has had a large influence on his own filmmaking career. In Martin Evan’s interview with Ken Loach about the Gillo Pontecorvo film, Evans says “[Loach’s] film-making is committed to a realist style; one that strives to give a voice to ordinary people and their daily lives.” The Pontecorvo film as an early example of postcolonial film is a good place to start when looking at The Wind…