Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATO may have reached another eleventh-hour compromise with the Kosovo Liberation Army, but the underlying tension between them over Kosovo?s future is far from resolved. KLA leaders signed an agreement Monday authorizing the disbanding of the guerrilla movement ?- or more correctly, its transformation into a 5,000-member civil defense-style Kosovo Protection Corps. NATO had envisaged the corps as a National Guard equivalent to respond to civilian emergencies, but the KLA viewed it as the nucleus of a national army for the independent Kosovo to which they remain committed. Although NATO has restricted the Kosovo Corps...
...What's behind the current violence? The Timorese have bitterly resisted the Indonesian invasion over the past 24 years, and the territory was never fully pacified. Timorese such as guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winners Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo have fought for independence throughout Indonesia's occupation. Indonesia is estimated to have killed as many as 100,000 Timorese in its failed attempts to colonize East Timor...
...offering vocal support to Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Zapatista rebels. And with a Chicano singer (dreadlocked Zack de la Rocha) and an African-American guitarist (wizardly Tom Morello), the band looks like the future of America. Rage's new CD--with songs like Calm Like a Bomb and Guerrilla Radio--promises to be uncompromising and exhilarating. "We've made the record we've been waiting our whole lives to hear," says Morello. "It incorporates the angriest anger of the best punk and the deepest funk of the funkiest hip-hop." WHEN...
...realty choices that have Mrs. Clinton?s political foes up in arms at the moment, though; it?s her husband?s recent decision to grant clemency to 16 members of a Puerto Rican separatist guerrilla group responsible for terrorist attacks in New York City. The New York Post, for example, accuses President Clinton of freeing the prisoners "for the sole purpose of helping his wife's Senate campaign attract Hispanic votes." But that may be reaching. "Do you see the Puerto Rican community getting excited about this or rushing out to support Hillary?s campaign? Hardly," says Branegan. Armed struggle...
Indonesia says it will abide by the outcome of Monday?s U.N.-supervised independence referendum in East Timor, but the anti-independence militias nurtured by elements in the Indonesian army appear to have no such intentions. Having vowed to wage a guerrilla war if they lose the referendum, the militias on Tuesday continued attacking election officials and independence activists, and stopped pro-independence voters from leaving the territory. Unhindered by Indonesian police, thugs with guns and machetes simply marched into the airport at Dili, East Timor's capital, seized tickets and ordered those they deemed pro-independence...