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...citizens of Lanshan county are putting up one of the most remarkable fights. Several families have defied arrest and harassment by organizing a campaign to impeach officials they accuse of gross incompetence and corruption. Their movement comes to a head this week with a motion to impeach the county's police chief?Tang Jili?and the vice county magistrate on charges of corruption. It will probably fail, but it's one of the most daring attempts to date of Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation...
...were complaints that police had taken money to release suspects. "Police arrest criminals like they're running a business," says Tian Liqing, a 66-year-old who has served as a People's Congress delegate for nearly 10 years and who recently joined Liang and Li's campaign to impeach the police chief. "They release them after they pay money...
President Abdurrahman Wahid is unlikely to survive an impeachment vote in the Indonesian parliament, where he controls only 10 percent of the seats. But if his supporters decide to contest his ouster in the streets, the latest twist in Indonesia's tortured post-Suharto politics may provoke a bloodbath. And that's exactly what Wahid's supporters were threatening Tuesday, as they poured into Jakarta from his East Java stronghold, bearing machetes, sickles and the implacable conviction that the parliamentary challenge to the President is an assault on the 40-million strong Muslim organization he heads. Their mission: To stop...
...McGirk: Indonesia's parliament is to decide next week whether to convene a special session to impeach President Wahid, and they're almost certain to go ahead. That special session is likely to go ahead in July or August. Until then, Wahid will be doing everything in his power to win support from other parties. His own party controls only 10 percent of the seats, and he won the presidency with support from other parties who wanted to keep out Megawati, who won the most votes in the election. But his prospects of winning the support necessary to stay...
...ZAMBIA Chiluba Stands Down President Frederick Chiluba dropped his bid for a third term in office after members of his ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy began impeachment proceedings against him. "I will leave office at the end of my term ... this is in the best interests of the nation," he said in a television address. Chiluba also dissolved his cabinet, saying he would form a new government to serve until elections in October. The announcement followed a motion to impeach brought by party members after Chiluba sought to change the constitution by expelling nine cabinet ministers and 12 legislators opposed...