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...edict was criticized by democracy activists, and the British Foreign Office said it appeared to erode the high degree of autonomy guaranteed to Hong Kong when it was handed back to China in 1997. Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing...
...religious conflict—all the parties are predominantly Muslim—but rather a conflict rooted in long-simmering ethnic and regional tensions. It began approximately 14 months ago, when the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in Khartoum became embroiled in hostilities with two black African rebel groups based in the vast western region of Darfur. In order to undermine potential rebel support, Khartoum is prosecuting a brutal ‘scorched-earth’ policy against Darfur’s Blacks. Khartoum has armed nomadic Arab militiamen, the Janjaweed, who are carrying out the atrocities in conjunction with official...
...country, and even of its newly minted security forces, would remain in the hands of the U.S. military commander rather than whatever government structure the U.S. opts to anoint. And if the day-to-day reality of Iraq is shaped by the clash between the U.S. military and rebel militias, an interim authority may begin to look irrelevant...
...rebel blockade achieved its immediate intent. Roads were jammed across the country, the capital ran short of diesel and gas, and the price of vegetables?most of which were left to rot in fields?soared to 30 times the normal level. Some 300 tourists nationwide were left stranded with little option but to leave Nepal on foot. They included 200 Indians, who trudged south over the border to safety. Elsewhere, Maoists stoned the vehicle of a French couple attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan...
...Haiti, with few respected leaders and democratic institutions, will not be easy to turn around. The rebel hero Philippe has long been under investigation for ties to drug trafficking. (He denies any involvement.) Some of his ex-military allies are linked to atrocities, including civilian massacres. The constitutionally mandated interim President, Supreme Court Chief Boniface Alexandre, is barely recognizable to most Haitians, though he won applause for appointing an untainted national police chief last week. Alexandre's main task, to hold a special presidential election, is vexed by the fact that Haiti's parliament shut down in January and Aristide...