Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relief never reached its destination. About 25 miles south of the Eritrean capital of Asmara, secessionist rebels of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front opened fire on the unarmed, unescorted convoy, killing one driver and wounding three others. After clearing the vehicles of passengers, the rebels blasted the trucks with grenades, setting them ablaze. Half the food was burned beyond salvage, and all the vehicles were destroyed. The rebels claimed that some trucks carried government bombs and ammunition. "Completely untrue," said Michael Priestly, coordinator of the U.N. relief effort. "The people who did this did not even look under...
Relying on the principle of national sovereignty, Nigeria argued that no relief could be provided to the secessionist territories without Nigerian consent. The rest of the world could only respond, in the words of one senior officer, "If children must die first, then that is too bad, just...
Although he took part in the earlier separatist struggle, Garang is eager now to renounce any hint of a secessionist program. "We are not a Christian movement," he stresses. "We are not an African movement. We are a Sudanese movement. We cannot for a moment entertain sectarianism based on religion, on race or on tribe, because it is precisely such sectarianism that has blackened Sudan for 30 years. We are a unionist movement dedicated to the creation of a united new Sudan that uses its resources for the people and does not fight within itself...
...soldiers is the largest in black Africa, but it remains vulnerable to guerrilla actions. A lightning strike by the Tigre People's Liberation Front in February freed hundreds of imprisoned rebels. Government forces have met heavy resistance in Tigre and adjacent Wollo province. The Oromo Liberation Front, another secessionist outfit, has mined roads as far east as Harar...
...strong curatorial case can be made for ending the story in 1918. It is too bad, however, that the MOMA show, unlike its Vienna and Paris predecessors, omits all but a bit of political context. There is scant reference, for example, to the troubling de facto alliance between the Secessionist aesthetes and Vienna's populist right against late 19th century liberalism, or to the right-wing regime that ran the city during the % Werkstatte's glory days, or to the unpleasant fact that the bank Wagner designed was established as an alternative to the "Jewish banks." By remaining ahistorical, MOMA...