Word: sectarianism
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...tribunal has convened in the country where the war took place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege PAKISTAN A general strike brought Karachi to a standstill. It was called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council...
...defeat may mark the end of an era. The Hindu-nationalist party had emerged as a major player on the Indian political stage in the early '90s by stoking the sectarian passions that led to successive waves of Hindu-Muslim violence. Vajpayee, however, always represented the gentler, more mainstream and statesmanlike face of a movement rooted in ethnic demagoguery in contrast to the relentlessly secular politics of Congress. As prime minister, he proved to be a sober, popular and widely respected statesman who navigated India through some of its most difficult crises. Indeed, he managed to avoid a potentially catastrophic...
...years old, and is unlikely to be the BJP leader in the next election if the new government sees out its full term. Many of his natural heirs lost their seats in the electoral drubbing, and some party leaders are already indicating a need to return to sectarian demagoguery as the path back to power. To be sure, being part of the governing coalition had a restraining effect on the more extremist elements in the Hindu nationalist movement over the past six years, who may now feel a greater freedom to pursue communal confrontations over issues such as Ayodhya, where...
...There are many people down here who use the issue [of Thai soldiers in Iraq] to whip up hatred of the Americans and the Thai government that supports them," says Wairoj Pipitpakdi, an opposition legislator in the southern province of Pattani where most of the 50 casualties of recent sectarian violence lived. Last week the U.S. and Australia told their citizens to avoid the Thai south, and Britain issued a warning about the country as a whole. And as terror attacks metastasize across the globe, many are worried that an Asian capital may be next?particularly given that the Madrid...
WHICH WAY OUT? Amid terrorist carnage and sectarian infighting in Iraq, the U.S. looks for a workable exit strategy...