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	New Statesman
		Although Martin Amis appears to suffer the occasional asphyxiating spasm, and has been reported as saying that it is all happening in America, at least he lives here---albeit, one suspects, as something of a spiritual emigre.
		Clint Smoker and his fellow Nibelungs of the press would be Amis fans to a man and, to the extent of their capacities, recyclers of his style.
		The mature Amis is not untouched by the circumambient pietism.
	www.martinamisweb.com /pre_2006/nsreview.htm (1403 words)

	Analysis: Sudan, Imperatives for immediate change: The African Union Mission in Sudan
		AMIS was transformed from a contingent primarily of unarmed military observers to a major operation that included armed force protectors, unarmed civilian police, and support teams.
		By then the military mandate of AMIS was essentially four-fold: to monitor and observe compliance with the ceasefire agreement; to assist in confidence building measures; to contribute to a secure environment by facilitating humanitarian assistance and returns of internally displaced persons; and to contribute to overall security.
		The possibility of placing the AMIS operation under U.N. authority is one option under serious consideration, primarily for financial reasons, and at this writing it is reported to be on the agenda of African Union summit meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, on January 23-24, 2006.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6LB4HH?OpenDocument (1524 words)

	American Chronicle: THE AU AND THE CRISIS IN DARFUR: CHALLENGE OF REGIONAL PEACEKEEPING
		AMIS is currently fulfilling its reactive responsibilities such as verifying alleged ceasefire violations, but has yet to fully implement the proactive aspects of its mandate, such as troop verification and the identification of militias [aligned with the government].
		A point worth noting is that AMIS was born out of the N'djamena agreement, which lacked a true enforcement mechanism and was based on the assumption of compliance and goodwill by the parties.
		AMIS needs both to act proactively against those elements and to station soldiers with convoys and at fixed locations where their presence can deter, and where they are better positioned for immediate response.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13509 (6991 words)

	New Statesman - Back to Blighty. Martin Amis's latest novel marks a return to form and familiar territory. While it ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although Martin Amis appears to suffer the occasional asphyxiating spasm, and has been reported as saying that it is all happening in America, at least he lives here - albeit, one suspects, as something of a spiritual emigre.
		Clint Smoker and his fellow Nibelungs of the press would be Amis fans to a man and, to the extent of their capacities, recyclers of his style.
		The mature Amis is not untouched by the circumambient pietism.
	www.newstatesman.com /Books/200309080038 (1648 words)

	Sudan: Crying out for safety - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ethnic polarization is on the rise, and the victims of the previous Janjawid attacks, no longer unarmed, may retaliate against other Chadian ethnic groups who aligned themselves with the Janjawid during these attacks.
		AMIS reportedly justified non-intervention on the basis that its role was to monitor the ceasefire between the government and the armed opposition groups, not fighting between the armed opposition groups themselves.
		AMIS was deployed to monitor an effective peace agreement, not to make peace itself, and the situation in Darfur has long since outstripped its limited mandate and capacity.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR540552006?open&of=ENG-369 (6281 words)

	The Tribes - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		AMIS - The area of distribution for the Amis people includes the plain around Mt. Chi-lai in North Hua-lian, the long and narrow seacoast plains and the hills in Taidon, Pindon and Heng-tsuen Peninsula.
		This ethnic group has a large population and their blood kinship is widespread.
		Recently, because of increased ethnic awareness and support, they were formally named as the tenth ethic group of the Taiwan's aboriginal heritage.
	www.atayal.org /Tribes.asp (1383 words)

	"Letting Uncle Joe Off Easy" - Salon
		Amis' distinction that Nazism didn't destroy civil society but bolshevism did is worthy of discussion but rarely aired.
		Communism claimed to be in favor of what Amis' father called the Just City and Orwell called "a world of free and equal human beings." It therefore gets the benefit of its good intentions, and it is fortunate in the swinishness of some of its enemies.
		If Amis' hero is Orwell, and yet he is so oblivious to the readily observable fact that Orwell is heroic to Hitchens as well, one is obliged to question Amis' ability to accurately tell any story.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/letters/2002/07/19/koba_the_dread/index.html (1225 words)

	Sudan: Protecting Civilians in Darfur: A Briefing for Effective Peacekeeping
		AMIS was established in Darfur to monitor an April 2004 ceasefire between the Sudanese government and Darfur armed political groups.
		AMIS must protect those returning, throughout their journey and upon arrival, for instance by having a visible and lasting presence in areas of return.
		AMIS must prioritize the protection of women, to curb the high incidence of violence against women in Darfur, in close cooperation with AU and UN experts and with the participation of women and civil society in Sudan.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGAFR540242006 (3803 words)

	Stalin: Koba the Dread II
		Amis continues to examine the presence of laughter against the backdrop of looming oblivion.
		Amis disabuses apologists of the notion that the early Bolshevik years were pure and principled.
		Martin Amis deserves great credit for using his talent and profile to draw more attention to 20 million souls who were murdered and then largely ignored in the name of moral relativism.
	www.orwelltoday.com /stalinbook2.shtml (1446 words)

	iViews.com - Q & A: Crisis in Darfur
		As part of its operations against the rebels, government forces have waged a systematic campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against the civilian population who are members of the same ethnic groups as the rebels.
		The AMIS force now numbers 7,000 personnel, including more than 6,000 troops whose mandate includes monitoring the ceasefire and protecting civilians under "imminent threat." The African Union is also mediating negotiations for a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the rebel movements, in Abuja, Nigeria.
		AMIS lacks the numbers of troops and the kind of equipment needed to effectively operate in such a difficult environment.
	www.iviews.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=HR0604-2980 (2423 words)

	Overcoming Obstacles to Humanitarian Assistance in Darfur: USIPeace Briefing: Publications
		AMIS was able to organize escorts for women leaving their villages to collect firewood and provide other protective services for civilians.
		The AMIS force is insufficient, inadequately trained, equipped with low-grade weapons, and saddled with financial constraints and an extremely narrow mandate.
		AMIS has the authority to intervene in the event of violence only in the immediate vicinity where troops witness attacks on civilians.
	www.mafhoum.com /press9/267P6.htm (2144 words)

	Amis, Kingsley (William) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amis, Kingsley (William) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Amis was the son of a clerk in south London.
		He married twice, first in 1948 to Hilary, the mother of his two sons, including the novelist Martin Amis, and a daughter.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Amis,+Kingsley+(William) (330 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Utopia's Victims by Gerard Alexander
		Amis places Soviet crimes in the larger context of the Bolsheviks' battle to seize, hold, and wield power, all ruthlessly.
		Amis emphasizes that from the start, the Communist dictatorship monopolized power by killing or caging these possible resisters, including through mass executions, a budding camp system, and famine used as a political weapon.
		As Amis notes, many people who would never deny Stalinism's horrors nonetheless cannot name a single camp, don't know the least detail of the terror-famine, and have no idea what the overall numbers look like.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11282 (2182 words)

	Press Releases: Sudan, Q & A: Crisis in Darfur
		One of the key problems is that over the past three years the Sudanese government has continued to follow a policy of supporting ethnic militias, organizing attacks on civilians and permitting serious violations of international law to go unpunished—including attacks on African Union forces and humanitarian aid workers and their convoys.
		AMIS has had limited success in stabilizing the region and preventing attacks on civilians, however, and has itself come under attack, most recently on August 19, 2006 when two AMIS soldiers were killed and three injured in an ambush by “unknown persons” in North Darfur.
		AMIS began serious consideration of a transition to a U.N. force in early 2006 and on May 15, the A.U. Peace and Security Council called for the U.N. to take over its mission as soon as possible.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6UR3QM?OpenDocument (3837 words)

	Author Robyn Amos - Writing the Ethnic Romance
		It's easier to write about a particular ethnic group if you have personal knowledge of that group, but keep in mind that these characters are still individuals.
		Your ethnic characters are not expected to speak for or represent all members of that group.
		When planning your ethnic heroes and heroines, think of their ethnicity as one of the facets in a diamond.
	www.robynamos.com /author/writing/articles/ethnic.htm (986 words)

	AMIS: Abstract: The Aktiengesellschaft für Geigenindustrie: Markneukirchen's Violin Factory
		The delivery of an 1840 Erard grand piano to the remote Shan Hills of colonial Burma may have been one the past year’s best-selling fictions (The Piano Tuner); however, the realities of late nineteenth-century musical exchange in the region are quite different and far more intriguing.
		That the instrument would be embraced and usurped by the Pa’O, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group second in number only to the Tai-speaking Shan, was perhaps less foreseeable.
		He last presented his research on West Javanese music to AMIS in 2001 as a William E. Gribbon Award winner.
	www.amis.org /meetings/2004/04abstracts/miller.htm (259 words)

	Why Hewett the Stalinist will be forgiven - smh.com.au
		Of course, to have renounced such terror, as Martin Amis's friend Christopher Hitchens did after the horror of September 11 last year, is one thing; the mystery is the intolerance of such renunciation and the persistence of an admiration for terror.
		Amis has got the accusation right, but his treatment of it is easily dismissed because of his own vanity and self-centredness.
		A better critique of Amis (and Hitchens) comes from the veteran journalist Anne Applebaum (who has for some years been working on a history of the gulags - the Soviet concentration camps).
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/26/1030053033783.html (766 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Two AU soldiers kidnaped by unknown armed men in Sudan's Darfur
		The two African soldiers were hijacked along with their AMIS vehicle on Sunday, by unidentified armed men, according to the statement.
		"AMIS condemns this hijacking in the strongest terms, and once more calls on the kidnapers to unconditionally release the personnel and the vehicle with immediate effect and without any bodily or physical harm," the statement said.
		The 7,800-strong AU peacekeeping force was established in Darfur in 2004 to monitor the implementation of a ceasefire agreement signed between the conflicting parties in the region on April 8 in the same year.
	english.people.com.cn /200612/12/eng20061212_331342.html (240 words)

	Yellow Dog by Martin Amis \| PopMatters Book Review
		I must admit it's pretty difficult to review an Amis book to begin with, especially if one is overly concerned with the opinion of fellow commuters as you seem to be.
		Amis fils hung around with a very hip crowd at Oxford and published his first novel The Rachel Papers when just a callow 24 years old.
		Thus Amis the younger's literary reputation has always been characterised by the personal attack (far more personal than yours), the scandal, and the evocation of envy that so often is its subject matter.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/y/yellow-dog.shtml (1354 words)

	SudanTribune article : African Union-Led Assessment Team concludes its tour in Darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The presence of AMIS has contributed to reducing the number of cease-fire violations and afforded some level of protection for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
		Furthermore, the “firewood patrols” and field sorties of AMIS have enabled IDPs to cultivate and harvest in certain areas of Darfur, and this, together with a sustained humanitarian effort by the international community, has considerably reduced malnutrition and mortality rates in Darfur.
		The Delegation noted that AMIS personnel, whose total strength as at 13th December, 2005, stood at 6,932 (5,623 military personnel and 1,309 CIVPOL), were conducting their tasks with increasing effectiveness and great commitment.
	www.sudantribune.com /imprimable.php3?id_article=13059 (578 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ami
		Plains in the valley along the railroad between Hualien and Taitung, and on the east coast near the sea between Hualien and Taitung.
		Ami, Amia, Pangcah, Pagcah, Pangtsah, Bakurut, Lam-Si-Hoan, Maran, Sabari, Tanah
		The Chengkung-Kwangshan dialect is closest to Central Amis.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ami (121 words)

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		AMIS peacekeepers and monitors are helping to maintain a shaky ceasefire in Darfur, where rebels took up arms in February 2003 in a bid to end what they said was state discrimination and marginalisation of the region's ethnic African inhabitants.
		Despite its limited capacity, the 6,964-strong AMIS force, which was deployed in Darfur in August 2004, has been credited with helping to improve security in the region and enabling humanitarian agencies to deliver aid to those affected by the conflict.
		Britain had already earmarked 19 million pounds sterling ($33 million) this financial year to fund AMIS, to be used to provide equipment, including over 900 vehicles; military and civilian policing advice, expertise and training; airlift of troops; and troop rotation.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=51846 (551 words)

	The Henry L. Stimson Center - Peace Operations and Africa: Sudan
		AMIS was created by AU Assembly Decision 54, 6-8 July 2004.
		In particular, neither occupier was able to fully integrate the northern and southern regions of the country, whose populations are divided along religious and ethnic lines.
		However, AMIS is now almost wholly reliant upon non-African financial and logistical support, and funding shortfalls may hinder its work prior to any UN handover.
	www.stimson.org /fopo/?SN=FP20040908717 (663 words)

	Sudan: Imperatives for Immediate Change: The African Union Mission in Sudan: III. Background
		The evolution from AMIS to AMIS II and ultimately towards AMIS II-E was clearly directed by the various assessments of mission effectiveness in the face of the grave external challenge of the security environment.
		In particular, neither AMIS nor AMIS II was deployed, structured or mandated to replace host nation security responsibilities, but rather to contribute to security, yet there was a clear and continuing reality on the ground that the Sudanese government had abrogated its responsibility to protect its own citizens.
		Phase Two (AMIS II-E), envisioned a significant strengthening of AMIS II, with expectations for this phase described as “improved compliance” with the N’Djaména Agreement and security—including access to humanitarian relief—for IDPs and other vulnerable populations, recognizing that the Sudanese government is ultimately responsible for the welfare of civilians.
	hrw.org /reports/2006/sudan0106/4.htm (3302 words)

	Money and the ethnic vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was an infamous concession speech given by Parti Québécois Premier Jacques Parizeau after narrowly losing 50.58% to 49.42% the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
		He blamed the defeat on "money and the ethnic vote" (l'argent puis des votes ethniques) and called on Quebec sovereignists to adopt a strategy of gearing their efforts only towards French-speaking Quebecers in future referendum campaigns.
		Mais là, mes amis, dans les mois qui viennent, on va...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Money_and_the_ethnic_vote (527 words)

	Sudan: The Passion of the Present: African Union: Send More Troops to Protect Darfur Civilians; Leaders Must Tell ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		“Ethnic cleansing” and its steady consolidation in Darfur have been the work of the Sudanese government and its abusive “Janjaweed” militias, which the government agreed in the DPA to disarm and neutralize.
		The Peace and Security Council should require AMIS to publish ceasefire monitoring commission reports promptly, and abandon the practice of consensus by allowing the parties to the ceasefire to have their objections and additions to the findings published simultaneously with the report.
		AMIS should take immediate steps to implement those parts of the Darfur Peace Agreement that are within its responsibilities, particularly those in the comprehensive ceasefire and permanent security arrangements designed to end the violence in Darfur.
	platform.blogs.com /passionofthepresent/2006/06/african_union_s_1.html (4304 words)

	Presidential office holds Hualien exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The entire area was home to the Amis aborigines until the Ching Dynasty took over the island in 1683.
		Around 250 years ago, members of the Atayal ethnic group were pushed into Hualien from their home region just east of the Central Mountain Range, probably because of the rapid growth of the Chinese population on the island.
		About 80 percent of its roughly 5,000 residents are members of the Amis ethnic group.
	publish.gio.gov.tw /FCJ/past/04040251.html (863 words)

	low culture: Sign O' The Times
		But lately it would appear that Amis is guilty of a sin even worse than plagiarizing one’s own mediocre think-piece from Talk Magazine.
		Even the typically high-minded Walter Kirn accuses Amis of using tactics that “might have raised eyebrows 50 years ago…” And in Amis’ universe, uncool is a capitol crime.
		Hardly a crime, but based on the evidence, perhaps it would be best for Amis to avoid including the transcripts of emails, or “e’s” as Amis labels them, in any future novels.
	www.lowculture.com /archives/2003/11/sign_o_the_time.html (775 words)

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