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An Auto-biography of War
Amira W. Pierce
LebanonGALLERYCONVERSATION
If I want to keep it short, I say, "Virginia," since the suburbs of DC is where my parents bought a house when my sister...
What all this means in the context of what I want to tell you is that in most of these settings, I have been proximate to a moment when the skein of regulated society is broken by unsettling violence, the kind brought about by political and social strife.  I am very lucky; I have never been directly involved, never been physically harmed.
The Lebanese civil war (1975 to 1990) was formed by ever-changing alliances between religious clans and sects, as well as the outside involvement of Israel, Syria, the PLO, and the USA.  All factions involved committed war crimes and indiscriminant acts targeting civilians.
The Gulf War was the reaction to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 and included economic sanctions and retaliation by a multi-national force, spearheaded by the USA.  The war was fought out on the ground in Iraq and in the sky above Kuwait and parts of Saudi Arabia.
The Indonesian 1998 Revolution is the name given to a number of protests and riots that began in 1996 and led to the May 1998 fall for President Suharto, who came to power in 1966 and maintained a mask of democracy throughout his 32-year rule.
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