Word: nationalists
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...Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, can barely contain his frustration over the recent fighting. "It's madness," he exclaims...
...Colombo recognize their sovereignty. The rebels say that if this is granted, they are willing to discuss the establishment of a federal state. The government in Colombo still insists on a unified state. Even if some sort of compromise is reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell it to the south. Rajapakse was elected on a hard-line platform that promised to do away with the cease-fire agreement. By agreeing to the talks, he risks alienating extremist Sinhalese parties who want the Tamil uprising put down with force...
...comparison between Hamas and Likud is inaccurate on a number of levels. The first regards religiosity. While Likud was seen as an ultra-nationalist party in 1977, Hamas combines ultra-nationalism with fundamentalist Islamism. It does not merely pursue an international policy that is uncompromising, and territorially maximalist, but also formally seeks the implementation of sharia as the law of the land—with all of the complications that such a program would pose for Muslim women and for the myriad Arab-Christian groups living under its authority...
...from 52% in 2000. Valley of the Wolves Iraq opens with a real-life incident. In July 2003, 11 Turkish commandos were detained by U.S. troops in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. Pictures showing the detained men cuffed and with sacks over their heads provoked outrage in Turkey, where nationalist sentiment runs deep. The film proceeds to pile on fiction. Turkish intelligence officer Polat Alemdar heads to north Iraq to seek out the U.S. troops responsible and avenge Turkish honor. There he discovers a rogue unit of U.S. soldiers led by officer Sam William Marshall, played by Billy Zane. After...
...Border Thaw Harper wasted no time last week in establishing his government's approach to Canada's most important trade partner and political ally--by sounding like a Liberal Party nationalist. He startled reporters at his first press conference by declaring he took exception to a remark made earlier in the week by U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, who questioned Canada's claim to sovereignty over Arctic waters. "It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not the ambassador from the United States," Harper snapped, noting his government has "significant plans" for asserting its Arctic rights...