Word: factionalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last August, when SADDAM'S tanks crushed the Iraqi National Congress and blew apart a CIA support operation, embarrassed U.S. officials blamed INC infighting. True, a Kurdish INC faction did invite the dictator back into northern Iraq's no-go zone. But documents obtained by TIME suggest that by failing to match tough words with tough deeds, the U.S. helped bring on the rout...
Such mixed signals, Chalabi believes, caused fatal disillusionment and dissension. In the month before Saddam's assault, the Kurdistan Democratic Party wrote four letters to State Department and National Security Council officials asking Washington to condemn an Iranian incursion and attacks by a Kurdish rival faction. In its final missive, the K.D.P. warned of the "only option" left: turning to Saddam...
Diplomats played games in describing what happened in Cambodia, but it was simply a coup. Because of its tangled politics, the country had two poles of administrative and military power. Last week the stronger faction, led by former Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen, overthrew "co-Prime Minister" Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who escaped in advance of the tanks. "The international community gave them [Cambodians] a chance to recover from the ravages of civil war," said former U.S. Congressman Stephen Solarz, an architect of the $2 billion U.N. effort that stabilized the country in advance of the 1993 election, "and they appear...
...Ranariddh's party as co-Prime Minister--though the execution of the prince's associates belies that promise. Late last week a replacement for Ranariddh stepped forward: Toan Chay, governor of Siem Reap province. A former ally of the prince's who split with him and formed a rival faction in May, Toan Chay told TIME, "I already consider myself the leader of Cambodia." The best outcome would be for King Sihanouk to mediate, as he has done in many past crises, but he is currently in Beijing and ill with cancer...
...they were wrong when they claimed to have captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy attempt by the rival royalist faction headed by First Prime Minister Prince Prince Norodom Ranariddh to get an upper hand in the struggle for Khmer Rouge loyalties. "The government should have divided the Khmer Rouge. Instead, the Khmer Rouge has divided the government." And everybody, it seems, is taking turns claiming to have captured...