The choice he had: between a life of boredom in a displaced persons camp or joining the armed struggle. A dispatch from among the Kachin Independence Army of northern Burma.
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Witch trials, whispers of genocide, and colonialism's real legacy—our final dispatch from the Central African Republic.
Traveling the countryside of the world's second-poorest nation: another in a series of dispatches from the Central African Republic.
Visiting with rival agonistes in the struggle over the Central African Republic. The third in a series of dispatches.
From a decaying airport lounge to fighting on the streets of Bangui—phantoms of the past loom large over the current conflict in the Central African Republic. The second in a series of dispatches.
The Central African Republic is an un-country—a violent playground for outsiders and locals alike to exploit and bamboozle each other. This is the first in a series of dispatches from the region.