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worked hard enough.”
    We say our goodbyes and I sit for a moment in silence. Then Joanne brings me toast and mushroom soup, and I find
The Islander
on the Internet. The coverage is remarkably detailed – a good sign that no one at the top is in enough control to muzzle the press.
RIOTS IN WELANTO
    20 August 1998
Hulinga Kaliotu
    Thousands of rioters and looters took to the streets of Welanto last night, burning large sections of the shantytown to the ground and looting shops and stalls. Reports also say many daughters were raped by roaming packs of police who were supposed to be protecting residents.
    No one knows what set off the riots. One man who was taking cover in a ditch said that a mob had been turned awayfrom Seaside Heights by private armies and so had vented their anger against their own neighbourhood.
    A long line of limousines could be seen through most of the night heading for the airport, which remains closed today. According to foreign news reports, some of Santa Irene’s wealthiest citizens spent the night on benches in the airport lounge, waiting for clearance to leave the country.
    There were no confirmed reports of casualties from the latest Welanto riots. Riots yesterday killed 23 people and injured some 350 more, according to local hospitals.
    Another article focuses on Suli Nylioko.
SULI DENIES CHARGES, CALLS FOR CALM
    20 August 1998
Dorut Kul
    Freedom Party leader Suli Nylioko, who remained in hiding last night, issued a statement through Island Radio that she had no part in the assassination of President General Linga Minitzh. She also called for calm and demanded the military rein in its own soldiers who are causing so much destruction in the capital.
    “I don’t know who is responsible for this murder. My sympathies are for the family of the General and my hope is that the assassins will be brought to justice. But there have been so many other unsolved murders that justice has become a stranger on this island. Do we want to invite her back? Or let fires of hatred consume us? It is time now for calm, for proper elections, and for responsible, peace-loving people to get at the truth and set us to healing.”
    Suli returned to Santa Irene last year to manage her family’s estates. She was arrested briefly in February for filing registration papers for the Freedom Party, but was let out on bail pending trial. Till now she has refrained from comment on national affairs, saying that she wished to live peacefully and rebuild her family. However, some sources say she has been using her time to build party support among influential academics, human-rights activists, and union leaders.
    A photo shows a tank with ragged children playing all over it while a soldier discusses something with an old man. The soldier’s machine-gun is slung lazily over his shoulder and the chinstrap of his helmet is undone; the old man has barely enough clothes to cover his stick-like limbs. The caption reads,
Out of gas!
SECURITY FAILURE BLAMED
    20 August 1998
Islander
staff
    Military sources have blamed a security lapse among the president’s elite personal guard for the assassination of President General Linga Minitzh, according to unconfirmed reports.
    The sources say that lax security allowed the bakery truck to pull alongside the presidential compound and self-detonate as the president was leaving for a meeting. No body has yet been found among the bakery truck rubble and a transmitter device discovered near the scene indicates a remote-controlled attack.
    Officials have so far issued no statements.
    Sources close to the military indicate that there is a strong possibility that terrorists infiltrated the president’s personal guard. Otherwise they would not have known precisely when to attack or have been able to deliver the truck safely into the presidential compound. The president frequently changed schedules and boasted as late as last week that terrorists had been routed on the island.
    The Kartouf has been widely