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...feel about bunny rabbits, rainbows and nice people? I didn’t ask. The point is, there is nobody out there who feels differently on this issue—not even George W. Bush, who the protesters have seemingly decided is coup-worthy, if their posters are any indication...
...presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, South Korea's authoritarian governments regularly violated human rights in the name of protecting South Korea from the threat of the communist North. Hundreds of students, church leaders and others who opposed military rule died in suspicious circumstances in jails and military...
...soldiers moved toward the signing of an unconditional cease-fire after intense negotiations mediated by West African diplomats. The rebels, who hold areas in the north of the Ivory Coast, including the cities of Bouake and Korhogo, have been battling the government of President Laurent Gbagbo since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...mutinied after being demobilized. The revolt quickly turned to open conflict between troops loyal to the government of Laurent Gbagbo - who came to power two years ago in flawed elections from which opposition parties were barred - and rebels allegedly led by General Robert Gue?, who headed a successful 1999 coup, was ousted by Gbagbo in 2000 and shot dead three weeks ago, one of this uprising's early fatalities. The violence - which the government has also blamed on neighboring Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has left more than 300 dead and the country divided between rebels in the north...
...Afrikaans physician, Lets Pretorius, was arrested - the truck was registered in his name - for alleged contravention of the Internal Security Act. Police began their roundup of right-wingers earlier this year. Months of undercover investigation led to the discovery of the Farmers' Force's written plans for an armed coup. The plans - entitled Document 12 - involved a military take-over of army and air force bases, radio stations and parliamentary institutions. It is unlikely that the ambitious coup could have ever succeeded, but police say that however unrealistic, the conspiratorial nature of the documents and the arms caches are enough...