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		<title>The Taliban&#8217;s Qatar Office: Are Prospects for Peace Already Doomed?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/19/the-talibans-qatar-office-are-prospects-for-peace-already-doomed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as diplomatic prospects go, the omens don’t augur well. On Tuesday, the Afghan Taliban announced the opening of their first political office in the Qatari capital, Doha. They cut a ribbon, played their anthem, hoisted the Taliban flag and signaled their readiness to meet for talks with foreign delegations, including U.S. officials, whose government is clearly itching for a way out of its twelve-year Afghan imbroglio. Not long thereafter, though, a Taliban attack on Bagram air base left four U.S. soldiers dead. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was not at all pleased with the Taliban office’s Doha unveiling, seeing it as a challenge to Kabul’s legitimacy. Despite longstanding Afghan government demands, the insurgent militia has so far refused to accept the Afghan constitution. The Taliban’s elaborate opening ceremony, the raising of their own flag and their rhetorical invocation of the Islamic Emirate—a term which, among other things, gestures to the state they ran when in control of much of Afghanistan before 2001—seemed to suggest the Doha office was an embassy of an alternative government rather than a front for Afghan reconciliation. Karzai summarily dismissed the notion of attending talks in Doha and, for good measure, also suspended planned discussions with the Americans on a security pact elaborating Washington’s involvement after the official 2014 withdrawal of international forces. He blamed the U.S. for allowing the Taliban to stage such triumphant agit-prop in Qatar: “The way the Taliban office was opened in Qatar and the messages which were sent from it was in absolute contrast with all the guarantees that the United States of America had pledged,” read a statement from Karzai’s office. U.S. officials, desperate for the prospect of talks not to collapse, are scrambling to soothe Kabul’s rage, according to the New York Times. Plans for the Taliban office in Doha—advanced both by Qatar’s Emir and the U.S.— have been an open secret for months, even as hostilities raged in Afghanistan and Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers continued to penetrate some of the most fortified areas of Kabul.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90928&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rouhani&#8217;s Opposition to the Bomb: The Iranian President-elect&#8217;s 2006 Letter to TIME</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/17/rowhanis-opposition-to-the-bomb-the-iranian-president-elects-2006-letter-to-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Khamenei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hassan Rowhani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A nuclear weaponized Iran destabilizes the region, prompts a regional arms race, and wastes the scarce resources in the region.&#8221; So wrote Hassan Rouhani — then a representative of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and Tehran&#8217;s former lead nuclear negotiator — in a letter published by TIME in 2006. Seven years later, Rouhani is now poised to become Iran&#8217;s President after securing a surprise victory in the election on June 14. The cleric was considered the sole moderate in a slate of candidates handpicked by the country&#8217;s theocratic leadership. Rouhani overcame challenges from hard-line Khamenei loyalists, capturing more than 50% of the vote in an election that saw little of the turbulence and violence that surrounded the still disputed 2009 polls. Attention now centers on how Rouhani will lead Iran forward, specifically with its controversial nuclear program, which has led to rounds of international sanctions that have hobbled the Iranian economy. (My colleague Karl Vick writes here of signs the Islamic Republic is already changing its posture.) In remarks made this Monday following his election, Rouhani reiterated his moderate bona fides, insisting that his administration would &#8220;show more transparency&#8221; when it comes to Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. Rouhani presents a clear departure from his predecessor, outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose inflammatory rhetoric and bellicose behavior made him a bête noire of the West and eventually a headache for Khamenei as well. On TIME.com in 2006, Rouhani responded to the climate of tensions then with this cautionary note: What is, then, the motive for the rush to heighten the situation and create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests — however transient, domestic and short-sighted — in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90548&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nicaragua&#8217;s Chinese Canal: Behind the Audacious $40 Billion Bid to Build a Rival Panama Canal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/13/nicaraguas-chinese-canal-behind-the-audacious-40-billion-bid-to-build-a-rival-panama-canal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor and Tim Rogers / Managua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 150 years ago, U.S. businessmen and politicians plotted the creation of a canal through the isthmus nation of Nicaragua that would link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Now, according to Nicaraguan officials, what Americans like the powerful Vanderbilt family (and later former President Theodore Roosevelt) once dreamed, a Chinese consortium intends to make real. On Thursday afternoon, the Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega muscled into law a sensational 50-year concession that grants a little-known private Chinese company the authority to “design, develop, engineer, finance, construct, possess, operate, maintain and administer” the Great Nicaragua Canal megaproject. Estimated to cost $40 billion, it includes an interoceanic canal, an oil pipeline, an interoceanic “dry canal” freight railroad, two deepwater ports, two international airports and a series of free-trade zones along the canal route. The canal would be at least twice as long as the Panama Canal and wider in order to accommodate the newest generation of supertankers. An executive representing the enterprise suggested that it would be the biggest such project in Latin American history. (MORE: Caribbean Crisis: Can Nicaragua Navigate Waters It Won From Colombia?) No information has been made public about the proposed route of the Nicaragua Canal, the timeline for its construction, its potential environmental impact on the country’s delicate tropical ecosystem, or who will finance the project. Ortega’s Sandinista government insists the project will be a game changer for the country and the region. Paul Oquist, Ortega’s private adviser for national development policies, says the canal project will allow Nicaragua to double its economic growth to double digits and triple the country’s formal employment within the next four years. The government claims the project would eradicate poverty in the hemisphere’s second poorest country and would be nothing short of a “social and economic revolution,” says Oquist. The bill authorizing the concession was presented to Nicaragua&#8217;s Congress last week, just ahead of the meeting in California between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Before arriving in the U.S., Xi had stopped at three countries in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89751&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME Cover Story: How China Views the World</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/06/time-cover-story-how-china-views-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s TIME cover story, which is illustrated by the artist-activist Ai Weiwei, examines China&#8217;s place in the world as it forges ahead into a new decade of leadership under recently-installed President Xi Jinping. For years, the narrative surrounding the world&#8217;s most populous country has been one of ascension, of &#8220;rise.&#8221; Now, as Xi meets U.S. President Obama for a two-day conclave in California on June 7, China has arrived and is in many regards an equal partner to the U.S., the existing global hegemon. TIME&#8217;s Hannah Beech writes: For decades, China&#8217;s outlook on how East met West was simple: a proud, ancient civilization was brought to its knees by foreign gunboats, British opium and Japanese wartime oppression. Whenever the People&#8217;s Republic dealt with the world, it did so with a chip on its shoulder, and Xi&#8217;s forerunners larded their speeches with accusatory references to &#8220;a century of humiliation&#8221; at foreign hands. The West was regarded as arrogant overlord, democratic foe and subversive instigator rolled into one. That sense of historic injustice festered even as China&#8217;s growing economic power might have been expected to sweep away such insecurities. But the ascension of President Xi&#8211;he of the patriotic swagger, political pedigree and photogenic PLA-folksinger wife&#8211;heralds a new era of China&#8217;s interaction with the international community. Instead of simply positioning China as a vanquished, aggrieved inferior, Xi and his China Dream envision a mighty nation reclaiming its rightful place in the world, not just economically but politically and culturally too. The consequences of China reclaiming its &#8220;rightful place&#8221; are far-reaching—a world driven by a Chinese consumer class, rather than an American one, would be already a very different place. But Beech charts the &#8220;uncomfortable realities&#8221; of China&#8217;s emergence as a superpower: its toxic environment, its awkward relations with wary neighbors, the iron-bound determination of Xi&#8217;s Communist Party to keep a stranglehold on power despite the growing frustrations of its restive population. China views itself as the Middle Kingdom, imbued with the mandate of 5,000 years of glorious history. But the rest of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89024&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simón Bolívar: The Latin American Hero Many Americans Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/31/simon-bolivar-the-latin-american-hero-many-americans-dont-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 09:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simón Bolívar lived a sweeping, epic life. The Latin American independence hero swanned around the salons of revolutionary-era Paris, skulked in the Guyanese jungle and enlisted the aid of roughriding cowboys and mercenary privateers, among others, in his campaigns. He wooed myriad women while remaining utterly devoted to the principles of the Enlightenment. He was born into one of the highest rungs of the Spanish colonial elite — a plantation-owning family in Caracas — but would be the man who would go on to liberate Spanish America&#8217;s slaves. He is lionized now across the continent as the courageous general who won Latin America&#8216;s wars of independence, but he died in 1830, at the age of 47, humbled by failures and derided by numerous critics. Bolívar&#8217;s many-chambered life is the subject of a recent critically acclaimed biography, Bolívar: American Liberator, by the Peruvian-American writer Marie Arana. Arana spoke to TIME about this titan of the western hemisphere and how more people in the U.S. should know his story. The book&#8217;s subtitle is American Liberator, a phrase that might conjure a different figure in American minds than Bolívar. How do you compare him with George Washington? That’s hard to do. It’s like living on different planets, in a way. Bolívar’s task was far more complicated. [He fought over] an area of land that was seven times larger than the American colonies and over terrain — the Andes, the jungles — that was far more difficult than the rolling hills of New England. Just in terms of a military feat it was quite extraordinary what he did. The public regard for Bolívar wherever he went was incredible. He inspired the masses to throw over the colonial structure. And he did it republic after republic, until six emerged. Bolívar had enormous flaws, he made terrible mistakes. He would execute one person for treason and then let a very treasonous general get away with the same thing. He was uneven and trying to make it up as he went along. When you’re operating like that — everything impromptu — it’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88003&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/16/after-fighting-over-mountains-india-and-china-lock-horns-in-the-indian-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-April, a platoon of Chinese soldiers trooped some 20 km into territory considered India&#8217;s and pitched tents and unfurled banners. When detected by Indian forces, the Chinese refused to leave, triggering a tense three-week standoff between the two Asian giants that ended only after both sides backed down from their windswept Himalayan posts and returned to the pre-existing status quo. The incident was the most dramatic flare-up between India and China in recent years, the latest reminder of how things can heat up along a vast, snowbound border that has for decades remained in dispute. Top officials in both New Delhi and Beijing tried to play down what happened. Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid described the border tensions as “acne” on the otherwise “beautiful face” of Sino-Indian relations. On a recent trip to Beijing, Khurshid insisted both countries &#8220;were on the same page&#8221; and &#8220;don&#8217;t have prickly issues of significant difference&#8221; regarding the unsettled border. Ahead of newly installed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s May 19 visit to India — his maiden foreign mission — the two countries have made conciliatory noises over resolving the thorny issue of the border, even though over a dozen rounds of talks have failed to achieve any real progress. In a measure to build trust, the two countries laid plans during the standoff to hold joint military exercises for the first time in five years. (PHOTOS: India&#8217;s Wild East) The Indian government described the incident as &#8220;localized,&#8221; which suggests that it was the fault of an errant Chinese official or local military commander, and not that of Beijing. Official talking points in both capitals tend to emphasize shared economic interests — annual bilateral trade is expected to reach $100 billion by 2015. Why should colonial-era quibbles over glaciers and desolate mountain passes get in the way? But while the Indian and Chinese governments have grown accustomed to managing a conflict frozen on the roof of the world, a whole new terrain of contest is emerging far away from the Himalayas: the Indian Ocean. An Indian Defense<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86651&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan Visits the U.S.: 4 Problems That Won&#8217;t Be Solved</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/16/turkeys-erdogan-visits-the-u-s-four-problems-that-wont-be-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As domestic scandals clouded Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived for a U.S. visit enveloped in his own fog. The Turkish Premier has been one of the most outspoken international statesmen on the need for intervention in the brutal Syrian civil war raging on his country’s border. The main agenda of his American sojourn was to seek support from an Obama Administration that has watched the conflict warily. At a joint press conference on May 16 in the White House’s Rose Garden, Erdogan and Obama stood in the rain and reaffirmed their shared wish that Syrian President Bashar Assad be removed from power. But much went unspoken. As Erdogan’s visit concludes, here are four geopolitical conundrums that underlie his country’s relationship with Washington. 1. Syria Erdogan’s clamor for action on the issue of Syria was given tragic reinforcement last weekend when two car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanli, on the Syrian border. Some 50 people died and dozens more were injured in an attack that Turkish authorities blame on agents of the Assad regime. Turkey now houses nearly 400,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the war and has lost 19 of its own nationals in isolated clashes with Syrian forces. Turkey is a member of NATO, whose founding treaty stipulates collective action if a member state comes under attack. Erdogan gestures to both those obligations as well as the heavy burden of the refugee influx when underscoring the need for greater international involvement in Syria. This would include the long-sought arming of the Free Syrian Army by the West. But Obama made no mention of weapons in his promises of aid. Despite being one of the rebellion’s earliest cheerleaders, Erdogan and his government appear to have only limited sway over the opposition, which has seen an influx of radical jihadist fighters swell its ranks of fighters on the ground. The focus now falls on a planned U.N. conference to be held this June in Geneva, with diplomatic prodding from the U.S. and Russia hopefully bringing both the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86752&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/07/syrias-lurking-terror-a-history-of-sarin-gas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad accusing the other of using poison gas in battle. After this weekend, international concern — and confusion — over the threat posed by chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war only deepened following a U.N. investigator’s claim that she had “strong, concrete suspicions” the Syrian rebels deployed sarin gas in a recent attack. The U.N. itself, though, has backed away from the allegation made by Carla del Ponte, and the Obama Administration says it’s “highly skeptical” of any suggestion that Assad’s opponents, as opposed to the regime, would be responsible. With the actors and incidents shrouded in uncertainty, the focus then falls on the supposed floating menace itself: sarin gas, a lethal neurotoxin made illegal by the U.N.’s 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which allegedly exists in the Assad regime’s stockpiles. A German agricultural scientist in the employ of the Nazis invented the gas accidentally in 1938 when experimenting with new forms of pesticide, but it was never used during World War II. Just a small drop of the nerve agent, which turns quickly from liquid into gas, can be deadly; it is exponentially more dangerous than cyanide. My colleague Alexandra Sifferlin details its effects: Within a few seconds of sarin-gas exposure, victims will start to experience eye pain, drooling, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea and irregular heart rates. Clothing from victims exposed to the gas will continue to release toxic vapors for 30 minutes, causing more people to come into contact with it. For those exposed to the liquid form of sarin, symptoms can occur anytime from a few minutes to 18 hours after consumption. If exposed to a large amount of sarin in either gas or liquid form, victims can experience more severe and painful symptoms such as convulsions, paralysis, loss of respiratory functions and even death. (VIDEO: U.S. Ponders Syria&#8217;s Possible Chemical Weapons) Both the U.S. and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85319&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain and Portugal&#8217;s Huddled Masses Seek Jobs in Former Colonies</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/01/empires-huddled-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few better places that illustrate the impact of the Spanish conquest of Latin America than the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco, Peru. Cathedrals with foundations of perfectly hewn Incan stone sit atop the ruins of what was once the mountain capital of the great Incan empire. Chapels gleam with Andean gold and silver, a testament to the ambitions of the first conquistadors who set foot there. The local Quechua word for this main square is also telling. The Spaniards brutally executed the famed Incan rebel Túpac Amaru II there in 1781. Ever since, it has been called the Huacaypata — the Place of Tears. But go to Cuzco’s Plaza de Armas now, and you’ll see that history has its ironies. On a recent visit, TIME witnessed packs of fair-skinned Spanish twentysomethings approaching both local and foreign tourists with baskets of trinkets and souvenirs for sale. Others performed juggling tricks with the hope of picking up a couple of soles in change. Julia, a college grad from Seville hawking felt marionette dolls in Cuzco, spoke plainly of her native country: “There’s nothing for me to do back there.” These Spanish youth represent a wider phenomenon: with Spain’s economy in crisis, and youth unemployment above 50%, many are upping sticks to seek a livelihood on the other side of the Atlantic. Latin America now boasts some of the world’s hottest economies, including Peru, whose GDP grew at more than a 6% rate in 2012. “Ten years ago, it would have been far more likely to see Peruvian pipers in Madrid&#8217;s Plaza Mayor,&#8221; says Jason Marczak, director of policy at the Council of the Americas. Now, the heady days of Spain’s construction boom are long gone and not only are job-seeking Spaniards seeking work in their country’s former colonies, but many Latin American migrants are returning home as well. Data charting this new trend of migration are still sparse. A recent study published in Americas Quarterly by two professors of human geography at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid found a 6.7%<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84597&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Terror Plot in Canada: What You Need to Know</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/23/canadian-terror-plot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated. While U.S. authorities (and media) continue their investigation into the origins of last week&#8217;s bombings in Boston, police officials north of the border announced Monday that they had arrested two foreign nationals planning an attack with alleged al-Qaeda support. Here&#8217;s what you need to know: 1. The Alleged Plot Two men, Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested in Montreal and Toronto respectively yesterday. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), they had been surveying trains in the Greater Toronto Area and allegedly plotting to derail or bomb a Via passenger train potentially destined to the U.S. (Train attacks are considered to be a hallmark of al-Qaeda strategy, including a brutal series of bombings in Madrid in 2004.) The RCMP alleges that the duo received &#8220;direction and guidance&#8221; from al-Qaeda elements in Iran, but has so far offered no evidence to substantiate those claims, which Tehran has already dismissed. Not much is known of the suspects. It is believed that Esseghaier is a Tunisian and Jaser is from the United Arab Emirates. Before his arrest, Esseghaier was a doctoral student at the University of Quebec, studying nanosensors, which are used in medical treatments and can also be found inside microchips. Fellow students have reportedly spoken to the Canadian press of their disquiet over his extremist religious views. The RCMP began tracking the pair after an apparent tip-off from within the Canadian Muslim community. At a hearing on Tuesday, the two were charged with &#8220;conspiracy to commit murder, participating in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to interfere with transportation facilities,&#8221; according to the Globe and Mail. In addition, Esseghaier was charged with one count of &#8220;having directed a person to carry out a terrorist activity.&#8221; 2. Al-Qaeda and Iran The links between al-Qaeda and the Islamic Republic of Iran are tenuous. Though both are viewed with animosity by many in Washington, they are hardly ideological bedfellows. Under the Ayatollahs, Iran styles itself as the worldwide champion of Islam, which is reviled by the Sunni extremists of al-Qaeda. For years,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83325&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chechnya&#8217;s History of Violence: Did It Influence the Tsarnaev Brothers?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/19/chechnyas-history-of-violence-did-it-influence-the-tsarnaev-brothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has led to a frenzy of speculation. It’s important to note, however, that it&#8217;s not even clear how much time Tsarnaev — who, according to his uncle, immigrated as a young child to the U.S. from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan — ever spent in Russia’s restive North Caucasus and how formative the region’s troubles were in his adolescent mind. There’s still no concrete evidence linking him and his now deceased older brother Tamerlan to organized jihadist activity. But their role in the current crisis has reminded the world of the recent history of violence that has plagued their ancestral homeland, which is a republic in the Russian Federation. Unsurprisingly, Ramzan Kadyrov, the barrel-chested strongman who has been Chechnya&#8217;s leader since 2007, rejected the attention, posting this statement on his Instagram account, translated by Foreign Policy: Any attempt to make the connection between Chechnya and [Tsarnaevs] if they are guilty, [is] in vain. They grew up in the United States, their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. But the peripatetic life of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his relatives hint at a wider story. The Chechen diaspora that lives in Kyrgyzstan is largely a relic of the brutal population transfers authored by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who distrusted the mostly Muslim Chechens, fumed at their resistance to his collectivization policies and suspected Chechen collusion with the Nazis. Starting in 1943, some 350,000 to 400,000 Chechens were forcibly deported to the eastern hinterlands of the Soviet Union; according to one account, one-fifth of that number died in grim conditions in Siberia and the Central Asian steppe. After Stalin’s death in 1953, tens of thousands made their way back home, but the memory of that exile still shapes the Chechen national imagination. In the post-Soviet era, Chechnya’s first rebel leader came from the Kyrgyz diaspora. Dzhokhar Dudayev unilaterally declared independence from Russia in 1991,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83003&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH LIVE: TIME Correspondent Rania Abouzeid Discusses Syria&#8217;s War</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/10/inside-syrias-war-watch-pbs-interview-time-correspondent-rania-abouzeid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME&#8217;s Rania Abouzeid has been an intrepid chronicler of the war in Syria, journeying at great personal risk to the frontlines of the conflict to cover the rebel advances in ravaged locales like Idlib and the ancient, historic city of Aleppo. Following PBS&#8217;s airing of a special Frontline broadcast about the grueling civil war—&#8221;Syria Behind the Lines&#8221;—Abouzeid joins filmmaker Olly Lambert and Syria Deeply co-founder Lara Setrakian in a live web Q&#38;A that you can watch here starting at 12:30 p.m. ET and start leaving your questions for the panel now in the space below.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=80794&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Foreign Policy: Was the Iron Lady on the Wrong Side of History?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/08/margaret-thatchers-foreign-policy-was-the-iron-lady-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the tributes flood in for Margaret Thatcher, the epoch-defining former British Prime Minister, one narrative remains cast in bronze. In the U.S., in particular, she’s lionized as the Iron Lady who stood with President Ronald Reagan, stared down the Soviet Union and helped usher in a new era of global liberty. Thatcher was a paragon of the West, a latter-day Churchill, a hardheaded politician who knew her enemies and acted on her beliefs. In a glowing eulogy, President Barack Obama said Thatcher reminded “the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history — we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will.” (MORE: Farewell to the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013)) But wrapped up in that legacy are some awkward truths. While a champion of the free market and a staunch opponent of Soviet tyranny, the conservative Thatcher leaves behind an altogether different memory in much of the global South. Her almost atavistic approach to foreign policy — shaped by naked British nationalism and a hawkish Cold War–era paranoia — appears today, at best, anachronistic and at worst deeply hypocritical. Thatcher is most frequently criticized for her implicit support of South Africa’s apartheid state: while she nominally opposed that racist regime, she thwarted international efforts to place sanctions on South Africa and gave its white supremacist leadership a veneer of legitimacy by befriending then Premier P.W. Botha (pictured above). Most infamously, she lambasted the African National Congress of imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “terrorists” and is said to have expressed doubt that the ANC, which had a leftist guerrilla wing, could ever supplant the apartheid-era regime. The ANC has been in power for nearly two decades now, and Thatcher’s unwillingness to back them at the apex of their struggle has embarrassed many, including current Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron, who in 2006 decried “the mistakes my party made in the past with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa.” South Africa was not the only place where<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=80462&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Destruction of a Nation: Syria&#8217;s War Revealed in Satellite Imagery</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/15/the-destruction-of-a-nation-syrias-war-revealed-in-satellite-imagery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, joining a crescendo of protest around the Arab world, Syrians launched a peaceful uprising against the autocratic rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. That dissent—met by a brutal government crackdown—has morphed into a bitter, grinding civil war between a fraying regime and a patchwork of rebel forces. The U.N. claims more than 70,000 people have died in 24 months of bloodshed, while the chaos has made over a million Syrians refugees. (PHOTOS: Scenes from Syria&#8217;s two-year civil war.) The world watched the conflict first through a mess of grainy YouTube footage posted by rebels and then the courageous reporting of both local and foreign journalists. Syria occupies complex geopolitical terrain and the international community has floundered in its attempts to end a war that&#8217;s already spilling across borders in the region. The Syrian opposition is seen to be disorganized and disparate, while at least one leading rebel unit on the ground has been blacklisted by the U.S. State Department for its perceived terrorist connections. Few consider a decisive military intervention, such as the U.S.&#8217;s controversial invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a realistic option. But while the international community quibbles over how to best arm the rebels and forge peace, the fragile political consensus—the tacit compromises, the cynical bargains between elites, the networks of patronage and support—that bound the Syrian nation-state under the Assads has unraveled. On the world map, Syria remains a country. On the ground, it has devolved into a battlefield warred over by sectarian fiefdoms, guerrilla outfits, extremist militias, criminal gangs and a regime clinging grimly to its dwindling sources of power and legitimacy. Click and drag the slider or the descriptions below the image to compare: The neighborhood of Yalda, in south central Damascus. A whole stretch of the area above the local mosque has been reduced to rubble. The disintegration of a country is a hard thing to fathom. But it can be documented. DigitalGlobe, a commercial satellite company that provides high quality images of the earth, has been tracking the Syrian<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75485&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notorious Cardinals: A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery of Powerful Prelates</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/notorious-cardinals-a-rogues-gallery-of-powerful-prelates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<title>5 Things We Hope Dennis Rodman Learned About North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dennis rodman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Dennis Rodman landed in Pyongyang, the isolated capital of the world’s most isolated country, he announced his arrival with a tweet: “I come in peace. I love the people of North Korea!” One wonders whom the 51-year-old former basketball star thought he was reaching. No ordinary North Korean is on the Internet, nor has access to the recently installed 3G network through which Rodman presumably sent his tweet. The eccentric American baller, known as the “Worm,” kept up his awkward commentary throughout a tour of the Hermit Kingdom, where he was accompanied by members of the Harlem Globetrotters and a crew from Vice. On Thursday, it reached its surreal climax when Rodman sat next to a portly, grinning Kim Jong Un, the pariah state’s dynastic ruler, at a staged basketball game. According to reports, he proclaimed Kim to be “a friend for life.” (MORE: Strange, But True: Dennis Rodman Is Going to North Korea) One hopes there’s a hidden punchline here, that Rodman’s North Korea trip isn’t just the strange publicity grab of a faded celebrity and an irreverent media enterprise. One hopes that—in between the lavish 10-course meals at Kim’s palace and “paying tribute” to the statues of late despots Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il—Rodman may have actually learned something about North Korea and the people he says he loves. There&#8217;s certainly a lot that demands his attention. Five key lessons we hope he brings back to share with his American fans: 1. North Koreans are starving. Chronic food shortages—which followed the fall of the U.S.S.R. and are the result of the avarice and mismanagement of the military-first dictatorship in Pyongyang—are a fact of life, especially in rural areas. Two thirds of the country (some 16 million people) depends on meager government handouts. Refugees who escape have spoken of subsisting on grass and field mice. A U.N. report last year claims millions suffer from malnourishment and inadequate health services: a third of children under the age of five show signs of stunting. Because of poor sanitation,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=71993&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron in India: Should U.K. Apologize for Its Imperial Past?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/20/david-cameron-in-india-should-u-k-apologize-for-its-imperial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron became the first serving British Premier to pay a visit to the Jallianwala Bagh memorial in the northern Indian city of Amritsar. The site marks the 1919 massacre of scores of unarmed Indian protesters by British colonial troops — imperial officials at the time put the body count at 379; subsequent Indian investigations claim more than 1,000 died. The incident is firmly embedded in India’s 20th century historical memory and inflames nationalist passions. It reached the rest of the world’s imagination when immortalized in a scene in Richard Attenborough’s Oscar-winning 1982 film, Gandhi. After laying a wreath at the memorial for those slain, Cameron commented in a handwritten note at the site, describing the slaughter 94 years ago as a “deeply shameful event.” But, as all the media have noticed in both India and the U.K., he didn’t extend a formal apology on behalf of his government. Aware of the full weight of scrutiny on his visit, Cameron offered this defense to reporters in Amritsar: In my view we are dealing with something here that happened a good 40 years before I was even born, and which Winston Churchill described as &#8216;monstrous&#8217; at the time and the British government rightly condemned at the time. So I don&#8217;t think the right thing is to reach back into history and to seek out things you can apologize for. I think the right thing is to acknowledge what happened, to recall what happened, to show respect and understanding for what happened. (PHOTOS: David Cameron’s Charmed U.S. Tour) Fair enough. Cameron was in India (he had earlier stops in Mumbai and New Delhi), after all, on a trade mission, focused on a rosy future of Indo-British cooperation. Why bother with the sulfur stench of the past? Yet in India and other countries once ruled by the British, there are of course lingering resentments and historical grievances. For all the railroads and courthouses built, the British were always in India for pragmatic (read: rapacious) reasons. “India was bled<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70220&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hanging of Afzal Guru: How an Execution Is Roiling Kashmir</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/the-hanging-of-afzal-guru-how-an-execution-is-roiling-kashmir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nilanjana Bhowmick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of Feb. 9, India-administered Kashmir woke up to deserted streets. There were no newspapers to be bought that Saturday morning — no television, no Internet. Streets throughout the valley had been taken over by Indian security forces before dawn broke, setting up barricades and a strict edict for all residents to stay indoors. Locals who ventured out to look for breakfast essentials like bread and milk were sent back home. “I went out of my home to offer prayers in a local mosque and to buy milk for tea, but I was surprised when policemen didn’t allow me,” says Bashir Ahmed, a Srinagar resident. “When I asked them the reason, they tried to hit me with a bamboo stick, and I ran away.” What Ahmed didn’t know was that New Delhi was on a mission to keep as much information as possible out of Kashmir about the execution of Muhammad Afzal Guru early Saturday morning. In 2002, a special court convicted Guru of aiding terrorists in planning the 2001 attack on Parliament, in which five gunmen entered India’s legislative house, shooting indiscriminately. Fourteen people were killed, including the gunmen, and 18 were injured. The government accused Guru, a former Kashmiri militant, of being a member of the separatist extremist group Jaish-e-Muhammad, which the government held responsible for the attack. Fearing repercussions in the valley, where the 43-year-old was from, New Delhi cut off all Internet in the region, forced Kashmiri daily newspapers to stop printing for four days and prohibited cable networks from broadcasting news channels apart from the state-run Doordarshan. A curfew was imposed in 10 districts. The order did not go as New Delhi might have planned. As news of Guru’s execution reached the valley, Kashmir erupted into unrest that is still continuing nearly a week later, concentrated mostly in Guru’s home district. Small groups of protesters gathered together, defying the curfew, shouting anti-Indian slogans and burning the Indian flag. Three people died and 50 people, including 23 policemen, were injured in the protests. On Thursday, the curfew was temporarily relaxed in Srinagar&#8217;s old city, but was withdrawn within minutes when protesters<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69331&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today, the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly 10 million to 15 million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than 600 cities: as many as 3 million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and New York City. From Auckland to Vancouver — and everywhere in between — tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: no to the Iraq war. I was among the antiwar contingent that swarmed Manhattan’s midtown on Feb. 15, 2003, a wintry Saturday. We spread across miles of city blocks, trundling past abandoned police barricades as we tried to inch toward the U.N., where 10 days earlier then Secretary of State Colin Powell had presented what we now know was illusory intelligence about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. The multitudes in New York were diverse and legion. There were anarchists and military veterans, vociferous students (I was then a freshman in college) and a motley cast of graying peaceniks — many, including one grandmother memorably puttering along in a wheelchair, had opposed American involvement in Vietnam. And there were myriad others: a band of preppy suburbanites with banners announcing themselves — “Soccer Moms Against the War” — musicians, street artists and workaday New Yorkers. My uncle, a doctor with medical practices in both the U.K. and India, had flown in for the demonstration and was just another face in a vast crowd. (MORE: Refighting the Last Wars) The overwhelming feeling on New York&#8217;s streets, despite the grimness of the NYPD and the bite of that February afternoon, was one of unity and hope. Word was seeping in about the scale of the demonstrations elsewhere and it was hard not to bask in our sense of collective purpose. An article in the New York Times would soon trumpet, “There are two superpowers: the United States and world public opinion.” Here&#8217;s Sofia Fenner,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69215&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Self-Immolating Tibetans Does It Take to Make a Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a Tibetan monk drenched in gasoline appeared in front of a Buddhist stupa popular among Tibetans and set himself aflame. At the time of writing, the young man, thought to be in his early 20s, is in critical condition. According to some reports, his fiery protest marks a grim milestone: it’s the 100th such self-immolation by a Tibetan to happen since 2009 (others suggest it’s the 99th or the 101st). Whatever the ghastly metric, the act has become the signature tactic in recent years of Tibetans voicing their frustrations with Chinese rule. It carries a haunting moral cry no suicide bomber can match. When one downtrodden Tunisian set himself alight in December 2010, the spark of his despair and anger kindled uprisings that swept across the Arab world. Yet, 100 Tibetan self-immolations — and many deaths — later, little has changed. (PHOTOS: The Dalai Lama: Six Decades of Spiritual Leadership) Part of the problem is where these protests occur. The overwhelming majority takes place within the borders of China, either in Tibet proper or in Tibetan areas of neighboring Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Media access is heavily controlled and much of what we know comes from advocacy groups based outside. A white paper titled “Why Tibet Is Burning,” released last month by an institute affiliated with the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, identifies by name 98 Tibetans who carried out self-immolations in China since February 2009. Many of those choosing to set themselves on fire are young teenagers and 20-somethings. They are farmers and aspiring clerics, nomads and students. In a foreword to the study, Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Tibet’s exiles, urges Tibetans to “not to resort to drastic actions, including self-immolations, because life is precious.” But the study goes on to point the finger at Beijing: The reason [for all the self-immolations] lies in China&#8217;s massive policy failure in Tibet over the course of more than 60 years of its rule. The revolution that is brewing in Tibet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68973&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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