Word: rebel
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...Rebel troops stampeded an african Union base in Darfur, Sudan, last month, murdering 10 African peacekeepers. That same week in Burma, the military regime killed a Japanese photographer and turned its machine guns on unarmed, barefoot monks. The violence in Darfur and Burma met with widespread international condemnation but scant concrete action. The perpetrators will almost certainly get away with murder...
...conflict involves government forces, local rebel groups, and Arab janjaweed militias, blamed for atrocities against ethnic African villagers...
Kosovo Albanian leaders, who have sought independence since well before the 1999 war, are no less adamant. Late last month Prime Minister Agim Ceku, a former rebel commander, proclaimed that Kosovo is now ready to coordinate a unilateral declaration of independence "with the United States and other countries." If "forced" to do this, he added, he would try to make sure it was not a "surprise...
...warming but question its severity and challenge the orthodox faith that Kyoto Protocol-style mandatory carbon cuts are the best way to save the planet. Call them the bad boys of environmentalism: gadflies like the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who just came out with the book Cool It, and rebel greens like the political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who detail their apostasy in Break Through. While their solutions may be flawed, the questions these contrarians raise about climate change are central as we shift into the next and more difficult phase in the debate: what should be done...
Delhi's strategy is threefold. Its initial overtures to Burma's military leaders came as India faced a growing insurgency in its northeast. Many of the rebel groups in that region are based and train across the border in Burma. As India has grown friendlier with Burma's generals the two countries have worked together - with some limited success - on eradicating the northeastern insurgents...