In Gaza, how to recycle an economy - The National Newspaper

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MIDEAST: Tunnels Become a Lifeline

RAFAH, Apr 29 (IPS) - Pick-up trucks speed westward on the Barth highway that flanks the Israeli border in Egypt's North Sinai region, stacked high with cartons of petrol.

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the clinton administrations impact on vietnam

It was certainly very crowded, so my hopes were set high, and if the pictures on the wall of a happening restaurant are any indication of a countries feelings about another, there were multiple pictures of President Clinton eating pho and shaking hands with the cook in that very  …

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vietnam war remnants museum

The images showed deformed and displaced men, women, and children who were exposed to agent orange, American soldiers killing Vietnamese who were unarmed, and had stories to go along with each, talking about how barbaric and relentless we were during the war.

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bye bye cambodia, hello vietnam

I realized that I don't think I'll ever fully understand and appreciate how good I have it, but contrary to my previous opinion, I don't think it's due to ignorance, I think it's legitimately not possible for me to ever completely understand the way of the world in its  …

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a glimpse into the life of a cambodian

...they were merely lining the government's pockets and buying them additional expensive cars while the majority of the country starves and their children die; the UN has severed all funding for the country.

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a high school turned prison

An estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned here and only seven survived, and only three of which are thought to still be alive. The majority of those imprisoned were former Khmer Rouge soldiers accused of treason, and the torture and living conditions were anything but humane.

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hegemony or survival, right?

The expressionless faces of the tourists coming back towards town when I was on my way out made perfect sense; I felt myself not returning the smiles and good fortune to the people who were now on their way out.

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an underground shooting range

Ignorantly, when I had read about "underground" shooting ranges, I was thinking that they were physically underground, not that they were illegal and no supposed to be happening.

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cambodia's genocide

The next stop on the walking tour is another tree, this one slightly more horrific then the first. This one is called "The Killing Tree" and has a sign posted in front of it that reads, "Killing Tree against which executioners beat children."

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en route to choeung ek killing fields

" A lot of the apartment buildings looked like a bomb had exploded right next to them and no one ever bothered to clean up the rubble and clean the smoke off of the walls.

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pol pot and his khmer rouge

Cambodia's history is very dark. Pol Pot and his regime had an irreparable effect on the country and it's people. This was taken from Wikipedia's entry on Phnom Penh: "The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975.

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man's search for meaning - in phnom penh

"I read a book when I was in jail called Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

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