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Yet politics is integral to the problems highlighted by the tragedy.
The country must see in the Vemula tragedy a reminder of the vital need to rededicate ourselves to Gandhi’s ideals, so that bright Dalit students are not driven to despair – or worse.
Emerging more united from this tragedy, the country welcomed the world to the long-anticipated Olympics, which were remarkably successful, but were soon superseded by the tainted-dairy-product scandal in which many babies became ill, and some died.
SEATTLE – The recent pledge of $350 million by African leaders and the international community to help the more than 13 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa underscores the need for continued attention and funding to prevent this tragedy from claiming and scarring even more lives.
The West is fighting a war over principles, a war, as President Clinton put it, "to end a moral tragedy."
But many poor countries have recently recovered from the impact such lunatic ideas, what a tragedy if that were to shoved back into poverty by returning to those tried-and-failed policies;-- No to pollution.
The tragedy of such thinking is that it does not allow for any moral and political complexity or nuance, yet that is exactly what will be needed if the many problems surrounding Iran are to be resolved.
But this would lead to an even greater tragedy.
There can be no doubt that the responsibility for this tragedy rests with the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian sponsors.
Meanwhile, the state lurches from fiscal tragedy to fiscal farce.
That, finally, is the true tragedy of Iraq in 2013.
The easiest way to compound the tragedy in Paris would be to use the deaths of Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and 11 others to fan the flames of religious hatred.
But Viktor Yanukovych, the current Ukrainian president, denies the special suffering of the Ukrainian people – a nod to Russia’s official historical narrative, which seeks to blur the particular evils of collectivization into a tragedy so vague that it has no clear perpetrators or victims.
Yet, barring some change, the standoff will end in a double tragedy.
Every killing is a human tragedy.
This is a tragedy; no one anywhere should have their rights, including the right to food, violated; yet that is exactly what so many farm workers and food-chain workers endure every day.
Luckily, the other half of that saying also appears to be true, for Moscow’s most recent bout of anti-Semitism is a case of history repeating itself, not as tragedy, but as farce.
But the defeat of ISIS and the demise of its self-proclaimed Iraqi-Syrian caliphate won’t bring peace to the Middle East, or even an end to the Syrian tragedy.
Refugees and Reform in EuropeLAGUNA BEACH – There is a simple truth beneath the growing human tragedy of Europe’s refugee crisis, and the European Union cannot address the massive influx of exhausted, desperate people in a manner compatible with its values unless governments and citizens acknowledge it.
Likewise, rather than seeking those truly responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, the United States and the United Kingdom wielded the tragedy as a diplomatic weapon against Libya.
The Lockerbie tragedy is a dark chapter in Libya’s past, which all Libyans are eager to shake off.
Simply put, it has been a magnificent demonstration of how response to human tragedy can unite rather than divide, reinforcing the impulse to cooperate rather than confront.
It is a tragedy of policy errors.
The tragedy is that, once that battle was won, the peace was lost.
It will be a tragedy – especially for the Palestinians – if they promote or condone terrorism.
Closing the Global Opportunity GapSEATTLE – We stand in the midst of a global economic tragedy.
Pakistan’s Polio Tipping PointISLAMABAD – Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams.
Likewise, Obama and Romney may have tacitly agreed not to discuss the policy choices surrounding the tragedy in Syria, because neither has any interest in addressing its internal complexities, mastery of which will be essential to galvanize international support for an eventual political solution.
Behind almost every request for asylum that an EU country receives is a human tragedy – a micro-history of violence, fear, and loss.
With all solutions either impractical, deemed infeasible, or unacceptable, most Venezuelans are wishing for some deus ex machina to save them from this tragedy.
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