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| COLOMBIA: Worse than Fiction A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in a new Colombian film, Silence in Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the "false positives" – the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties. |
| PAKISTAN: Singing Against the Taliban "In the last few years, I have sung more than a dozen songs against the Taliban," award-wining singer Khyal Muhammad tells IPS. "I got threatening messages on the mobile phone. But I will continue to sing because it gives me strength." |
| CULTURE-CUBA: Women Rappers a Vocal Minority Women are still a small minority on Cuba's hip hop scene. "If the situation is hard for us nationwide, imagine what it's like in the eastern region, where this genre has very little recognition," says Yaneidys Tamayo, leader of the group Las Positivas. |
| Afghan Theatre Group Lets War Victims Tell Their Stories On a small stage, a woman appears, grief written on her face as she wanders through the streets of Kabul, searching for her missing child. Suddenly, she stops by a scene of ruins and stares. |
| FILM: Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain. |
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