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...Party (SLPP) received a huge endorsement from the war-weary country. Kabbah won a substantial majority in the presidential vote and his party took more seats than any other in the new Parliament. The President was credited with bringing in the international forces that put down a 10-year rebel uprising, which had seized control of the country's diamond fields and repeatedly tried to oust the government. After Sierra Leone's last election in 1996, the rebels made a point of hacking the hands off civilians, on the grounds they had been used to vote for Kabbah. INDIA Jammu...
...introduced 140 hours of instruction in law and human rights at its army-officer academy, while soldiers dispatched to Aceh receive an extra three or four months' training to hone their military skills. One exercise gives them four seconds to decide whether they are facing an armed rebel or an innocent civilian?a distinction which, as Aceh's casualty figures suggest, has mattered little in the past. More than a thousand civilians perished in the conflict last year; this year's death toll looks set to surpass that. Combat troops have also been issued with booklets explaining the rules...
...heavily armed units routinely patrol nearby villages in armored personnel carriers with heavy machine-guns mounted on the roof. "An attack can happen at any time, any place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says his men came under fire three weeks before, while patrolling...
NEPAL Truce Trounced Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba ruled out any talks with Maoist rebels unless they surrender their weapons. Deuba was responding to reports, later denied by a rebel spokesman, that the guerrillas had declared a one-month unilateral cease-fire. The statements came after some of the heaviest fighting in the country's six-year conflict, with estimates that between 250 and 600 people had died in the Western district of Rolpa...
...Maoists to march into Kathmandu and seize power, the prognosis is grim. Preoccupied with factional fights within the Nepali Congress Party and in command of a poorly equipped army of just 45,000, Prime Minister Deuba has little chance of regaining much land in Maoist hands. All through rebel territory, police checkpoints, if they exist at all, go unmanned. Deuba came to power just under a year ago as a peacemaker, promising talks with the Maoists. But when the guerrillas broke off their truce in November, he declared a state of emergency and ordered the army into battle. Deuba?whose...