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Unhappily, the scriptwriters pretended that they knew better than Forsyth how to tell a story, and they got rid of the mining guy's story, of old Manson's greed and of young Manson's lust, and of the tribal question story, in exchange for a meaningless story about Shannon's wife, and the one of the pain-in-the-ass journalist who gets killed, which distracts the spectator's attention.
The first third deals with the mysterious Yor stumbling upon a tribal village.
The picture begins in medias res, with some sort of tribal conflict going on among the Maoris.
Emerald Forest is certainly guilty of oversimplifying the displacement of tribal peoples, but I remembered it fondly.
The pointlessness of such tribal warfare is emphasised by the shadowy depiction of the combatants, the almost total absence of 'good guys' and 'baddies' - I for one could rarely tell which side the soldiers on screen were supposed to represent.
People pose for the camera, speak their lines badly, pretend to be tribal people, run away, come back.
Further they kidnap Mahla (Jody Lawrance) a tribal princess, which prevents the evil Khalif Hussein (Gerald Mohr) from caring out his attack.
As a result, Afghanistan will remain what it was: a violent and ungovernable tribal melange.
By banishing all trappings of justice, this mindset is oblivious to the suffering of the peace-loving civilians who comprise the vast majority of those living in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
As a result, instead of winning hearts and minds, the US, with the constant humming of killer drones in the air, is driving fear into every living soul in the tribal areas.
Indeed, the bloody irony is that the strategy is utterly counter-productive; the people of the tribal areas, with their warrior past, end up joining the militants, justifying their actions as jihad against the forces occupying Afghanistan and their helpers in Pakistan.
In one particularly notorious case, 40 maliks (tribal leaders) holding a jirga (tribal assembly) were burned in an indiscriminate attack.
Despite countless sacrifices in the face of the drone strikes’ arbitrary cruelty, the resolve of the tribal areas’ people remains undented.
Peace will come when the tribal people, in their hundreds and thousands, no longer see a reason to fight.
In Africa, tribal separatists oppose anyone standing in the way of independence.
Adding to the pressure, America would expect the kind of cooperation in pacifying Pakistan’s tribal areas that Musharraf has proven unable to provide.
When forming the councils, the opposition sought to achieve a balance between government experience, technical expertise, and tribal support.
What strikes me the most is that she sees, even then, the beginnings of the tribal conflicts and the coming contest among Islamists to outdo one another in fundamentalist purity.
But it was Madiba – the tribal name by which South Africans of every caste and color now affectionately call him – who made the crucial difference.
A genuine and inclusive process will require engaging with the whole spectrum of Afghan civil society, including rights organizations, women’s groups, the clergy, public intellectuals, and influential tribal networks.
The obvious explanation lies in the fact that, like US President Donald Trump and populist leaders throughout Europe, Netanyahu amasses political capital by appealing to the population’s base tribal instincts.
The first problems arose in the lawless “federally administered tribal areas” (FATA) in western Pakistan.
Musharraf, concerned at all costs to avoid any military action that might provoke a tribal rebellion against his forces, tried to buy himself more political space by cutting deals with insurgent leaders in the FATA, signing peace agreements with the very chiefs his army should have been pursuing.
At stake is the cohesion of a state that many argue is yet another example of an artificial nation cobbled together by Europeans who did not understand their creation’s social, tribal, and religious forces.
Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.
In April, Britain’s secretary of state for international development, Priti Patel, equated Kiir’s “scorched earth policy” and tribal targeting to acts of genocide.
Older tribal and clan loyalties in Africa were mangled by the boundaries drawn, in distant cities like Berlin, for colonially-created states whose post-independence leaders needed to invent new traditions and national identities.
Despite a supposed offensive by Pakistan’s government against the TTP in some of the tribal regions, a recent documentary reported that the group is now recruiting young children to carry out suicide attacks.
And it has deployed police forces to shield Chinese nationals and construction sites from tribal insurgents and Islamist gunmen.
Syria is the proverbial problem from hell, a country whose borders have little to do with the tribal or sectarian identities found in the Levant.
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