European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 stars and stripes Mideast edition july 2007 Khallil Peter Njoroge prepares beef for a customer tuesday in his makeshift butchery in according to wild animals such As Zebra and wildebeest that have been slaughtered illegally Are frequently passed off As beef in prompting health some Arent game to buy mystery meat in Kenya by Elizabeth Kennedy the associated press Kenya James Zakedis plate is piled with Fra Grant strips of Nyama the entree of Choice in much of East Africa whose name quite roasted Alkedi can Only Hope Hes get Ting what he paid for two pounds of Dis ease free kenyan authorities say wild animals such As Zebra and wildebeest Are illegally slaughtered and passed off As posing grave threats from diseases such As ebola and anthrax linked to eating the flesh of infected i have always been cautious when going out to buy Alkedi but you never Over the police recovered More than 450 pounds of Bush meat in an a refrigerated minibus travelling from a wildlife dispersal area outside Nairobi National Kenya wildlife ser vice spokesman Paul Udo to the Driver said he was going to pass off the meat As beef at Nairobi Udo to similar shipments have been entering Nairobi nearly every Day for the past two the wild life service three people have been arrested and Are charged with poaching and illegal Trade in wildlife in Many West and Central Afri can ulary from primates and elephants is considered a Delica but in the main reason for eating it is the lower while beef Sells for around per a Pound of Bush meat May Cost 20 the problem of Bush meat Mak ing its Way onto kenyans dinner plates is not in a conservation group Analysed the meat from 202 butchers in Nair finding that 25 percent of the products surveyed were Bush meat and 19 percent a mixture of game and meat from Domestic Ani the statistics suggest that nearly half the meat bought and sold from the 202 but Cheries in the Survey is either entirely or partly said the report by the born free stall managers interviewed by the a denied trading in illegal saying they Only Deal with meat that is still on the Bone so they know exactly what kind of an Imal it comes the problem arises from Boneless like that from the Zebra and wildebeest found last slaughtering wildlife is illegal in the government banned sport Hunting in but allowed limited Hunting to cull animals and Harvest game meat until when animal rights groups managed to shut it Nairobi mayor Dick Kathika said officials were investigating to ensure food i wish to assure Nairobi ans that no meat will be served to them he some Nairobi residents Arent so Many people in Nairobi must have eaten this meat thinking it was said John who owns a fast food joint in just goes to show that what dont know cant Hurt but the Burma mar Ket int taking any Chanc when asked whether he would eat meat sold at his he he i dont buy reverence for kamikazes seen As sign of a new Era by Joseph Coleman the associated press Japan on april Shinichi Uchida faced a terrifying Mission crash his plane into a but the Young kamikazes final letter to his grand parents was full of now ill go and get rid of those the 18yearold wrote shortly before his final vow ing to bring Back the neck of president Franklin he never for such words Are redolent of the militarism that drove Japan to ruin in world War but for an increasingly bold cadre of Uchida words symbolize something else just the kind of guts and commitment that japanese youth need Long a synonym for the waste of the suicidal fliers Are now being glorified in a film written by to Kos Shintaro a Well known a and a museum about the kamikazes in Chi near the Airstrip from which Uchida and others took gets More than visitors a the sufferings and misgivings of these Young people Are something we cannot find in to Days Ishihara said when his i go to die for opened this that is what makes this portrait of youth poignant and and yet so exceptionally he the renewed her worship of the kamikazes coincides with a general trend in japanese society toward seeing the country War Effort As the govern ment has stepped up efforts to expunge accounts of japanese atrocities from history books and reinstate patriotic instruction in the prime minister Shinzo like his popular Junichiro is pushing to revise the pacifist the estimated Kamikaze or divine wind pilots were named after a legendary typhoon that foiled the mongol emperor Kublai khans invasion of Japan in Chirac museum officials say As Many As 90 percent failed to reach the warships they were meant to despite the pilots reputation abroad As suicidal a japanese hearts have always had a soft spot for the Long celebrated in books and comic the pilots Are seen As innocent Young men forced by a desperate military into sacrificing their lives to protect their Ishihara film plays these tragic hero sentiments to the with a Strong dose of patriotism strapping Young pilots proudly sing War songs and Down cups of Sake before taking while townspeople Kneel in tearful gratitude As they Fly girls paint Ris ing Sun flags with their own the film is set in about 630 Miles Southwest of from Here 402 pilots took among them whose Fate remains while insisting to reporters that the movies Mes Sage is director Taku Shinjo said Japan launched the War in Asia in and that the decision to Send Young men on suicide missions was the Only option left As the conflict neared its while the japanese have not fired a shot in wartime since some critics see peril in the new its extremely dangerous to glorify the Kamikaze pilots As tragic the people who glorify them want to connect the prewar period with the present and future said Atsushi a historian who has written about the these views also Block critical analysis of the trag Edy of the what it signified and Why it was car ried he David a statue of a Kamikaze Pilot is carved on a Stone lantern lining the entryway to a museum for Kamikaze pilots in Emiko a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of Kamikaze diaries reflections of japanese student said that the pilots private writings and other evidence show that rather than stoic Many of them were Tor tured Browbeaten and abused into flying to their the peace museum for Kamikaze pilots in Chirac goes to great lengths to make the Point that the fliers nobly gave their lives for their on display Are final letters photographs of cheerful and warplanes such As one dredged from a nearby har a Large painting in the lobby shows Angels Bear ing the broken bodies of the pilots to any parallel Between kamikazes and the terrorists is angrily museum director Takanobu Kikunaga said the pilots gave their lives for their not the Emper and they were attacking military not civil he also argued that it was hypocritical of Europe ans and americans to compare kamikazes with terrorists after colonizing wide swaths of the including this want Kikunaga the Media 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