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Hyperbole is never a stranger to politics, but jubilant members of the Scottish Nationalist Party claimed to have literally felt the earth move with their victory in the July 24 by-election in Glasgow East. The SNP dethroned Labour with a swing of more than 22%, a result "off the Richter Scale," said one SNP stalwart. The party's leader spoke of a "political earthquake...
...early 1950s the admiring Hendra (who is better known simply by his first name) joined Sudjojono in the cultural arm of the PKI, the Institute of People's Culture, referred to by its Indonesian acronym LEKRA. Sudjojono was to become its leader. "In Asia, art was integrated into nationalist movements," says Kwok. "Sudjojono was in the forefront of this...
Tadic took that charge seriously. Just three days before Karadzic's arrest, the head of the Serbian security service, Rade Bulatovic, resigned; he was quickly replaced by a young and respected investigator, Sasa Vukadinovic. Bulatovic was considered an ally of former Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, a nationalist and staunch opponent of the tribunal. "I am sure that at least some parts of the intelligence community were involved in protecting Karadzic," says Milos Vasic, a security analyst for Belgrade's political weekly Vreme...
...After the war, he fled first to the Bosnian hinterlands and then to neighboring Serbia, where nationalist authorities gave him safe harbor. Those who lived through the war will be happy to see Karadzic in shackles. But they will consider it injustice if the authorities in Serbia, after refusing to arrest him for more than a decade, leverage his belated capture for their goal of closer integration with Europe (E.U. talks on the matter are set to begin Tuesday). And if there was a moment when his arrest would have helped reunite Bosnia, it has long passed. The country...
...Turkish state? On July 14, Istanbul's top prosecutor, Aykut Cengiz Engin, gave one grave and tantalizing answer. He announced indictments against 86 people, including military officers and prominent journalists, for allegedly "attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by force." The "Ergenekon" coup plotters apparently named their hard-core nationalist group after an idyllic valley evoked in the Turkish people's pre-Islamic founding myth. The prosecution claims they were out to unseat the Islamic-leaning government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by sowing chaos to provide a pretext for the army to step...