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...year term. Danga Mughogo, a regional chairman of the Forum for Unity and Development, had allegedly called on people to rise up against renewed efforts to change the constitution. SRI LANKA Tigers Stop Roaring After three days of talks with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand, the Tamil Tigers guerrilla group announced that it will seek a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka only as a "last resort." "Our demand for a homeland is not a demand for a separate state," said Anton Balasingham, the Tigers' chief negotiator. The talks, the first direct negotiations in seven years, were aimed...
...Siddique was not heading to a public rally but to a private war?to join Islamic militants fighting for Kashmir, to kill Indians, perhaps to avenge his father. It was a journey marked by blood and sweat: four months of intensive guerrilla training, crawling through barbed-wire obstacle courses, running up and down peaks, target practice, planting mines, making bombs?and, later, real killing. And it was a journey that would end in tears in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir, at the high-security prison of the state's dreaded counterinsurgency special ops division...
...Siddique was the most experienced in guerrilla warfare, the most defiant and considered the most dangerous of the trio by his jailers because he had tried to grab a policeman's revolver shortly after he was arrested. "This man would shoot us all if he saw a chance to escape," muttered the Indian officer in charge. The prisoners, seated in a dim interrogation cell, said Islamabad would not demand their extradition because it did not acknowledge their presence in Kashmir. Said Mahmood: "We all knew, when we came, that we might not be able to go home...
...cabinet. The resignation was seen as a severe blow to Arafat, who must now submit to the council names for a new cabinet by Sept. 26. Council member Mohammed Hurrani, though part of Arafat's Fatah movement, called the resignation "a great victory." NEPAL Maoist Mayhem Nepal's guerrilla war intensified as Maoist rebels killed 58 policemen and soldiers in the town of Sandikharka, 295 km west of the capital Katmandu. More than 4,000 rebels overran the remote town, where 200 soldiers were garrisoned. Less than 24 hours earlier Maoists killed 49 policemen in Bhiman in southeast Nepal. CHINA...
...North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung drew much of his legitimacy from his role in the guerrilla struggle against Japanese colonial rule, so these are the kinds of stories North Koreans grow up with. They help to explain why Pyongyang will demand billions in reparations as part of any normalization of relations with Japan?and why Koizumi is likely to exit North Korea with little to show for the visit unless he signals Tokyo's willingness...