Word: rebel
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...conflict between the Indonesian military and separatist rebels in aceh hampered your work? Some of the international relief workers have had problems. But the [separatists] don't bother us. When we enter rebel-controlled areas we just show our reconstruction agency IDs, and they respect them. Likewise with the military...
...unlikely to take its turn chairing ASEAN in mid-2006. The purge of Prime Minister and intelligence chief Khin Nyunt last October on corruption charges has caused hairline cracks to appear in a seemingly monolithic military, and the cease-fires he brokered with more than a dozen ethnic rebel organizations could crumble. Last month the Shan State National Army announced it was joining forces with the S.S.A., the first time in a decade that a group that had signed a cease-fire had broken with the junta...
...S.S.A.'s straight-talking leader is Colonel Yawd Serk, 47, who wears a dark suit and city shoes, resembling a bureaucrat rather than a rebel commander. He gives TIME a tour of nearby Gon Kha hill, scene of the recent fighting. When the rain stops, it can be reached by a narrow dirt road, which Yawd Serk negotiates in a blue Isuzu pickup truck, with his revolver tucked into the dashboard. Linked by deep, zigzag trenches, Gon Kha's bunkers look down upon a handful of fortified U.W.S.A. positions, the closest about 500 meters away. Around 800 U.W.S.A. soldiers charged...
...Reagan Administration, which has been supplying arms to the rebels through a clandestine CIA pipeline, was closely watching the latest offensive. "We don't think the Soviets can beat the Afghans," said one official. Washington fears, however, that heavy rebel casualties and the psychological toll of battle could slow resistance as the war grinds on. Concurred Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is beginning to look like a very bleak future for the mujahedin." The new Soviet drive is certain to be one of the first topics when stalemated talks aimed at ending...
...appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...