Warning: non-language-related post.
Gee-minently, tsuwm--I...my mind just boggles, reading that.
Their entire country is being destroyed, and these feuding relatives are fighting, among other things, for the power to set up a toll road??? And for that reason, the other side (depending on the day, I guess) is given a victory.
I guess there's a reason we use the expression, "foreign to me". 'Cause I sure don't understand this--their whole value system.

Another thing--why do the media send female reporters in to a place where women are so looked down on??