Word: guerrillas
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...Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region defined not by its wonderful coffee or the sparkling blue water off the northern coast - almost shocking after the prevailing brown of what passes for harbors and rivers elsewhere - but by atrocities that have piled up over two decades of guerrilla warfare. Collectively, the voices make "Indonesia" seem like a contrived fantasy - seriously, 17,000 islands as one nation? - not a country...
...parked a block distant. Now it's June's turn to do the surreptitious feeding (pictured above). "They've been here for centuries," mourns June, who was born a stone's throw from the square. "This is their home." Celebrity spoonbender Uri Geller has thrown his support behind the guerrilla feeders, and there are two shelters nearby for pigeons who aren't surviving the crackdown. One possible penalty for transgressors: being bound to one of the lions...
...PERU Berenson Verdict Three judges in Lima found New Yorker Lori Berenson guilty of collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and sentenced her to 20 years. The court found her innocent of active militancy in the guerrilla group and of helping to procure international financing, which would have carried a life sentence. Berenson was jailed for life by a secret military tribunal in 1996 on charges of treason, but was granted a retrial on lesser charges last year. She declared the judgment "unjust" and lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...addressing the grievances of its Albanian minority - after all, it is those grievances that have created fertile soil for the extremists to grow their insurgency. NATO was also aware that the ham-fisted Macedonian military might make a mess of a counterinsurgency campaign against the lightly-armed but mobile guerrilla forces and cause civilian casualties that would irreversibly radicalize the Albanian population...
...that of a legitimate protagonist in Macedonia's future, NATO and the European Union may have already effectively conceded the carving up of Macedonia on ethnic lines. And that's another great victory for the hard men in Kosovo dedicated to the pursuit of a Greater Albania through guerrilla warfare. By looking more to the safety of its troops than the accomplishment of its mission, NATO has made sure it will remain reluctantly engaged in the Balkans for the next decade - with the real victims the region's long-suffering people...