Word: rebel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lankan army pays out a lifetime's salary to the families of its slain soldiers - and right now that policy may be set to place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days after President Chandrika Kumaratunga rejected a rebel truce offer allowing her troops safe passage out of the beleaguered Jaffna peninsula, vowing instead to defend the territory to the last man. The secessionist fighters, who regard Jaffna as the capital of their desired homeland of Tamil Eelam, last week delivered a crushing blow...
...boats with nine Malaysian and two Filipino resort workers. Under cover of darkness they were taken to Jolo island, in the southern Philippines, about an hour away. For days the captors' identity was a mystery, with speculation running from plain pirates to Abu Sayyaf, the most feared Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. At midweek the Philippine Defense Secretary confirmed that the hostages were being held by Galib Andang, a.k.a. "Commander Robot," the Abu Sayyaf leader on Jolo and perpetrator of other kidnappings. He wanted a multimillion-dollar ransom. Late in the week Abu Sayyaf allowed...
...troops and officials hostage Thursday, after killing seven Kenyan soldiers of the international peacekeeping mission Wednesday. The RUF launched fierce attacks on U.N. forces when the peacekeepers attempted, in line with a peace agreement signed last year by the government and RUF leader Foday Sankoh, to disarm rebel forces. But despite the agreement, and the fact that Mr. Sankoh was made a government minister even though he leads an army that terrorized the country by systematically dismembering civilians, the rebel fighters have shown no interest in disarming. To do so would break their grip on the rich diamond fields that...
Week Three--Former Rwandan rebel leader Paul Kagame, the country's highest ranking Tutsi, was "elected" president by the parliament after the resignation of the previous Hutu president...
...fanatical organization fighting to stave off extinction at the hands of the government forces, the erstwhile vacationers are suffering from deteriorating health from a diet of rice and rainwater and growing anxiety of dying in a shoot-out. Although the government has appointed a former commander of a rival rebel group to negotiate with the abductors, it is holding to a tough security line, and engaged a group of rebels in a firefight Monday at the periphery of the camp where the hostages are being held...