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Since February 2003, Sudanese bombers and government-backed Arab militiamen have coordinated attacks on black Muslim villages in the region, leaving more than 50,000 dead and forcing over 1.6 million Darfurians to flee from their homes...
...Foreign Minister Win Aung told ASEAN officials at a regional gathering in Jakarta that Khin Nyunt was losing a struggle within the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). "He is in a dangerous position," said Win Aung, according to officials privy to the conversation. "Khin Nyunt may have to flee the country. If that happens, I will have to flee with him." They didn't leave fast enough: last month, Win Aung was replaced as Foreign Minister and is believed to be under house arrest. And last week, the Prime Minister was arrested by the army at Rangoon airport shortly...
...chance of violence. An extra 2,000 troops have been deployed to prevent trouble at the polls. Not long ago, the U.N. could not even talk about Kosovo's "final status" for fear of inflaming the Serb community. That changed, ironically, with the clashes that made the Trajkovics flee. Those riots, which left 19 dead and displaced 4,000, underscored how a peaceful, multiethnic Kosovo was still a fiction. Since then, Kosovar Serb representatives have withdrawn from local U.N.-sponsored institutions. Though the new Serbian President Boris Tadic has called on Kosovar Serbs to vote, he is virtually alone...
Many of the rebels are probably still lurking in the city, hoping to blend back in or waiting for their chance to flee. It is now up to Iraqi forces to sniff them out. Some insurgents may have already been nabbed making their getaway--like six men who were captured in a boat crossing a river on Saturday--but it's hard to tell because once they put down their weapons, they could just as easily be seen as civilians. When a platoon was ambushed on a residential street late on Friday--triggering a blazing exchange between two U.S. units...
...evidence supports that [the fight] was an attempt to fend off Colono [to avoid] imminent death or bodily harm,” Parker said, adding that his client did not have the opportunity to flee the scene...