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The dust is far from settled over the story of blind Chen Guangcheng. Though Chen has occupied international headlines since he escaped from house arrest in an eastern Chinese province and surfaced at the US embassy in Beijing in la
stanley cup te April, there are several Chinese citizens who have been incarcerated for dissenting views. HT Image As the leadership of the Communist Party of China CPC gears up for a once-in-a-decade change of leadership this autumn, the government seems to be increasingly sensitive towards cri
stanley cup tical opinion. First, the Bo Xilai scandal which many interpreted as a mirror to the intra-party unease and then Chen s story is likely to heighten that sensitivity. What is it that makes the government here react sharply and strongly to opposition to its politics and policies Even in the case of Chen who was demanding that abuses committed by local officials be investigated the authorities had possibly reacted far too strongly. What is preventing the Chinese government from responding to Chen s eminently reasonable demands--an end to his unlawful imprisonment at home and an investigation into the abuses committed by local officials--is the fear of encouraging the citizenry in standing up to the government when the
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The mystery of the terrorist mind became an issue again in recent weeks as a suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed seven CIA officers; a man plowed a truck full of explosives into a playground in Pakistan, and a Nigerian man tried to
adidas originals blow himself up on a plane bound for Detroit. HT Image The psychology of terrorism used to be theoretical. But access to terrorists has increased and a nascent science is taking shape. More ex-terrorists are speaking publicly about their experiences. Tens of thousands are in de-radicalisation programs and talking. Terrorist propaganda floods the Internet. There are entire cable TV channels operated by extremists. Researchers have access to hundreds of writings and farewell tapes of suicide bombers. The new research has its limits. The accounts of the extremists 鈥?generally militant Islamists 鈥?are difficult to verify. Researchers differ over the path to radicalisation. Some boil it down
af1 to religion, others to politics and power, others to an array of psychological and social influences. But patterns have been identified. THE PATH TO VIOLENCE Despite the lack of a single terrorist profile, researchers agree on the risk factors for involvement. They include what Jerrold M. Post, political psychologist at George Washington University, calls generational transmission of extre
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