Victims
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When the East Asian financial crisis broke out in mid-1997, the advanced countries and the International Monetary Fund were quick to blame the
victims
-- the borrowing countries.
Even today, the world's bias toward short-term cross-border lending has not been addressed by Washington or by Basle, and the
victims
of this crisis continue to receive the brunt of the blame.
A final word to the
victims.
Nomads have been
victims
of famine, violent conflict, and circumstance, accounting for a significant share of the deaths – as many as one million – caused by 22 years of civil war, and of the 260,000 Somalis who died of starvation in 2010-2012.
But, while much more needs to be done to meet the immediate needs of this famine’s victims, we should also be thinking now about long-term solutions to preclude food crises on this scale from happening in the first place.
But public opinion can change when a conflict does not involve one's own security or vital interests, especially when the allied
victims
are one's sons and brothers, or the other party responds with terrorist attacks.
Fear of the fickleness of public opinion leads to reliance on technology and the doctrine of "zero
victims"
- the myth of war without risks that dominates today's allied actions.
Hu Yaobang was a founder of the China Youth League, regarded as a relatively liberal institution in the People’s Republic, who in the 1980’s promoted political reforms and rehabilitated virtually all the
victims
of the Mao Zedong’s purges.
With no end in sight to a war with thousands of civilian victims, and democracy far from the horizon, nobody could have foreseen how Nepal’s people would express their demand for peace and change.
People not just in France, but around the world, want to show their solidarity with the
victims
and support the fundamental principle of free speech.
Each November, Ukrainians commemorate the
victims
of 1933.
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.
As Lemkin knew, terror followed famine: peasants who survived hunger and the Gulag became Stalin’s next
victims.
We must change laws, judicial systems, and attitudes that exonerate the perpetrators, and we must provide help to
victims.
Even so, there could be
victims.
The inconsistency is rooted in the girls’ circumstances: the schoolgirls are innocent
victims
crying out for protection, while the child sex workers are illegal immigrants, slated for deportation as soon as they are caught.
For example, anti-arrhythmic drugs were prescribed widely – with the United States Food and Drug Administration’s approval – to heart-attack
victims
for more than a decade, under the assumption that reducing heart-rhythm abnormalities would decrease mortality rates.
What is shocking is that the scourge of health-related poverty continues to claim
victims
today.
Independence LostTILBURG – Every major economic crisis has its
victims.
The cries of Lear may blot out those in the street outside our window; concert-going may make it impossible to hear the terror, the thirst of the
victims
on the way to Dachau in the Munich suburbs.
Snyder’s estimate of the total number of Stalin’s
victims
does not take into account those who managed to survive forced labor or internal exile in harsh conditions.
Moreover, the Soviet archives show that one cannot say that the Nazi’s killings were worse because
victims
were targeted on the basis of their race or ethnicity.
Stalin, too, selected some of his
victims
on this basis – not only Ukrainians, but also people belonging to ethnic minorities associated with countries bordering the Soviet Union.
Furthermore, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the bombing, agreeing to pay more than $2 billion to victims’ families, and to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program.
In my research on organ trafficking, I have entered some of these shadow markets, where body parts from the poor, war victims, and prisoners are commodities, bought or stolen for transplant into affluent ill people.
When Liu learned that he had been awarded this year‘s Nobel Peace Prize, his first reaction was telling: “This prize is given to the
victims
of the Tiananmen Square massacre.”
Most of the
victims
were German immigrants, mainly women and children, on their way to a picnic.
Among the
victims
was a Coptic priest, whom the captors beat severely before shaving his head and moustache.
Although Christians have largely sought to remain neutral in the conflict, they have become involved gradually, some by taking up arms and others as
victims
of kidnapping and violence.
The recent killings have inflamed public opinion, sparking mass demonstrations to demand justice for the
victims
and more effective government protection of secularist writers.
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