William Mullen

There are signs in 1988 that some of the most intractable Third World struggles may be coming to an end, which would allow millions of refugees to go home. The...

So Rosa remained with her father. On Sept. 14 a group of soldiers came to their house and demanded a chicken, sat down and cooked it near the house. They...

The nightmarish, wholesale violence so often directed at civilians that has produced the modern flood of refugees is not the special provenance of any particular political ideology. The horrors perpetrated...

What drove Khan Said out of Afghanistan has physically displaced half of Afghanistan`s 15 million people. Five million are now refugees, with more than 3 million living in Pakistan and...

It is apparent that civilians are now considered legitimate targets of armies, a significant shift in the style in which wars have been fought historically. In part that shift can...

The government troops that chased Hamid out of Ethiopia in 1975 were armed with U.S. weapons. The United States had supported Ethiopia as a close ally when it was governed...

It is the longevity of so many refugee situations around the world that makes refugees a different issue today than they were in the past. There have been refugees as...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. It has not been celebrated even in Israel with much pomp and pageantry, for there is...

Though Palestinian farms have disappeared in Gaza, driving more Palestinians into Israel for day-labor jobs, Israeli farmers have found the Palestinians to be an important market for their crops, selling...

Thus an unspeakable pact was made with one of history`s most certifiably criminal governments. Not only did the Khmer Rouge continue to exist, they were rearmed by the Chinese, given...