Word: rebel
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...runoff between President Joseph Kabila and former rebel chief Jean-Pierre Bemba--three months after Congo's first free election in more than 40 years--Kabila led, with 58% of the votes. But Bemba, claiming "systematic cheating," has taken the case to the Supreme Court, where last week pro-Bemba protests erupted in violence. The resulting delays could hold off Kabila's Dec. 10 swearing...
...Most victims are left-wing activists, whom senior government and military officials have publicly labeled "enemies of the state" for their alleged links to the outlawed New People's Army (N.P.A.), a communist rebel group that has fought the government in Manila for nearly four decades. This practice of "red-labeling," says Amnesty, sends a tacit signal to the Philippine military and other security forces?which many Filipinos believe are behind the killings?that murdering political opponents...
Traveling to Dublin, where she believes her renegade husband to have retreated after their shotgun wedding, Letty finds herself enmeshed in a world of subterfuge and shifting aliases. As Letty stumbles blindly through the dark warrens of Dublin’s crypts and other rebel depots, I was not able to deduce any sort of internal logic to her rambling experiences...
...wrapping one’s mind around the conflict in Darfur was hard before, people will be really confused by the coming attraction: It’s Sudanese government forces against rebel forces, one rebel group against an alliance of other rebel groups, the neighboring country of Chad backing some but not all these rebels, Sudan sponsoring other Chadian rebels, and, of course, the pinwheel of Darfur’s genocide, that which never changes—Arab militias killing black peasants en masse...
...moment," Thomas says, "but it quickly became clear that the students who took over weren’t that angry." He was amazed to discover that some student activists would call their parents—many of whom were once college activists themselves—for advice. Rather than rebel against their parents, as students did in the 1960s and 1970s, they were interested in pleasing them...