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...Like Tip, Pim comes from eastern Burma. A member of the Akha minority, one of the hill tribes that populate that region, she was born in a settlement outside Kentung, an area of wild jungle mountains that doubles as rebel country and forms the heart of the Golden Triangle opium and amphetamine production zone. Pim remembers a tough but happy childhood raising chickens and working the rice fields on her parents' land, which clings to a steep ridge above a clear rushing stream...
...both countries well, the U.S. military should not itself be fighting in the Philippines. American troops will be carrying arms and be permitted to fire in self-defense, but any escalation of American involvement in the conflict would be troubling, especially in light of prior U.S. military actions against rebel guerillas...
SIERRA LEONE End to a Brutal War President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared the country's civil war officially over and agreed to establish a special court to try those most responsible for atrocities during the decade-long conflict. The tribunal's most prominent indictee is likely to be rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was captured after British troops intervened in Sierra Leone nearly two years ago. Celebrations marking the end of hostilities took place just days after the U.N. announced the completion of its disarmament program with the handover of weapons by 47,000 combatants...
...LANKA Peace Moves Journalists had their first glimpse of life behind rebel-held lines as the Tamil Tiger leadership allowed a visit to the Vanni region and the government lifted a seven-year economic blockade on the northern territory. The arrival of trucks carrying food, medicines and other goods was seen as a key step in the revival of Norwegian-led truce talks between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels...
COLOMBIA Mediation Helps Rebel leaders agreed to restart peace talks after President Andrés Pastrana called their bluff by threatening to retake their safe haven. But even as the President set another deadline for a cease-fire timetable, observers of the three-year peace process were hopeful of maintaining the momentum. The difference, they said, was the presence of international negotiators, including a U.N. envoy and diplomats from 10 countries. Renewed bombing attacks by FARC guerrillas in areas south of the capital left others less convinced...