Huge tracts of the Chaco are being razed in a scramble into one of South America's most remote corners.
On January 8th this year, a house on the edge of Nazran was razed in a siege.According to Memorial, a human-rights watchdog, the security services' behaviour creates rather than staunches the trouble.
But the UN estimates about 30,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes in recent months, and satellite images produced by Human Rights Watch show 1,250 structures have been razed in a similar period in Rohingya villages, including 245 in Kyet Yoe Pyin.
It has been more than half a century since the apartment buildings, businesses and even the church that filled nearby 98th and 99th Streets between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West were razed, in a massive urban renewal project that created Park West Village, a six-square-block collection of apartment houses that now dominates the northern reaches of the Upper West Side.
Huge tracts of the Chaco are being razed in a scramble into one of South America's most remote corners by cattle ranchers from Brazil, Paraguay's giant neighbor, and German-speaking Mennonites, descendants of colonists who arrived here nearly a century ago and work as farmers and ranchers.
About 100 miles east of Camarillo, four houses were razed in a fire in Jurupa Valley.
Seven and a half years after the storm, the original Carver High has been razed in an isolated, battered neighborhood that will probably draw few visitors during Super Bowl week except those gawking on disaster tours.
A storm in December 2008 destroyed the adjacent school building, which was razed in an emergency demolition the next month (Rev Kirk and his parish still owe the city $160,000 in demolition costs).
The high-rise was built by the Suffolk Construction Company of Boston on one and half acres of what had been a surface parking lot for more than 40 years, after the local Shartenberg department store was razed in an ill-fated effort at urban renewal.
The Stardust is scheduled to close at year's end and be razed in the spring of 2007.
