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SABBATH CANDLES GLOW AGAIN FOR JEWS IN SHANGHAI

December 29, 2001 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman, The Dallas Morning News, December 29, 2001 SHANGHAI, China -- Just before sundown one Friday, an ancient religious rite unfolded that had all but vanished from China five decades ago. About two dozen Jews and their bearded rabbi gathered in a plain conference room of a gleaming high-rise hotel, chatting amiably and waiting for the sun to drop the last little bit. Soon, the … [Read more...] about SABBATH CANDLES GLOW AGAIN FOR JEWS IN SHANGHAI

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence

Forgotten Victims: African Tribe Wants Apology

June 2, 1998 by Todd Bensman

From 1904 to 1915, the Kaiser's troops in Germany's then- Southwest Africa colony systematically exterminated as many as 80,000 members of the rebellious Herero Tribe. It was a scarcely known slaughter of Teutonic efficiency that produced forced labor camps, sex slaves and the first academic "studies" of supposed Aryan superiority, a prelude to the Jewish holocaust. Now the tribal remnant in north … [Read more...] about Forgotten Victims: African Tribe Wants Apology

Filed Under: Out of Africa

Proposed Dam Threatens To Wash Out African Subsistence Tribe’s Way of Life

January 1, 1998 by Todd Bensman

Economics is a modern term inconceivable to a people who still wear animal skins, till small plots of maize, grind millet daily, cook over open fires, and weave baskets. A proposed government dam project at the ancestral center of Himba life, Epupa Falls on the Cunane River threatens a place early explorers once called "The Land of the Red Women" Update: Nearly 18 years after this article was … [Read more...] about Proposed Dam Threatens To Wash Out African Subsistence Tribe’s Way of Life

Filed Under: Out of Africa

Thousands Sold into Servitude in Lesotho as ‘Herder Boys’

January 1, 1998 by Todd Bensman

An estimated 60,000 "herder boys" are trapped in an insidious form of indentured servitude virtually unnoticed by the outside world. Boys as young as 6 are forced to roam alone with their masters' cattle for months through the bleak highlands of this African kingdom. Their impoverished families hire away their boyhoods to wealthy cattle owners for food, a cash pittance or debt forgiveness. On … [Read more...] about Thousands Sold into Servitude in Lesotho as ‘Herder Boys’

Filed Under: Out of Africa

Fidel Castro’s Africa

January 1, 1998 by Todd Bensman

With more doctors per capita in the world, Cuba has deployed more than 1,000 physicians, dentists and psychiatrists to Angola and other African countries where leftist movements that Cuba once helped are now governments in power. The two dozen countries that Cuba is targeting include southern nations of particular strategic or economic value such as Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South … [Read more...] about Fidel Castro’s Africa

Filed Under: Out of Africa

My War In Bosnia 1992-1993

November 1, 1993 by Todd Bensman

This essay was originally published in The Arizona Republic after a return from nearly a year of covering the siege of Sarajevo and the war elsewhere in the Balkans at the height of hostilities. Includes previously unpublished photos from Bensman's private collection. Reflections on Homecoming By Todd BensmanSpecial to The Republic LATE ONE NIGHT NOT LONG AGO, some soldiers in the front … [Read more...] about My War In Bosnia 1992-1993

Filed Under: Bensman's Foreign War Coverage

Balkan War and Peace

April 16, 1993 by Todd Bensman

On background: I mounted my first reporting trip to the Balkans in March 1992 from my base in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where I had been covering the aftermath of the recently ended Cold War. Months of brutal civil war to the south in Croatia was wrapping up with a peace agreement, to be initially enforced Canadian troops under the United Nations banner. Opportunity was knocking. The Canadian Press … [Read more...] about Balkan War and Peace

Filed Under: Bensman's Foreign War Coverage

The Siege of Sarajevo: Inside the longest and most destructive city siege since World War II

March 17, 1993 by Todd Bensman

On background: My first trip into the besieged city of Sarajevo began with a hairy ride on a bus in December 1992 with a group of Italian pacifists. We started out from the Bosnian town of Kiseljak just 30 miles away in Croat-controlled territory. The two Serb front lines around the city (one facing the Croats and another facing the interior of Sarajevo with a supply corridor in-between) … [Read more...] about The Siege of Sarajevo: Inside the longest and most destructive city siege since World War II

Filed Under: Bensman's Foreign War Coverage, Uncategorized

The Gulf War 1991

January 1, 1991 by Todd Bensman

Stories, photos and reflections from a first-time war experience that provided more learning than coverage. An attempt to cover a major war as a freelance journalist who had never before freelanced nor traveled abroad, working from Israel, Jordan, and Egypt until the money ran out. Includes never-published photos On background: Long after I returned to the U.S. and took a staff writer’s … [Read more...] about The Gulf War 1991

Filed Under: Bensman's Foreign War Coverage

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