Word: separatist
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...general appeared relaxed and confident. In a 30-minute talk at the presidential palace in Jakarta with TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief Simon Elegant and Correspondent Jason Tedjasukmana, Yudhoyono addressed the many daunting challenges facing his fledgling presidency: doubtful economic prospects, disappearing foreign investment, rampant corruption, terrorism, and separatist and religious strife. Excerpts...
...TIME: Will you consider restarting negotiations with the Free Aceh Movement given that the separatist struggle there continues? SBY: The current operation under way in Aceh must be maintained because if there were to be a vacuum in power a new threat to security could arise. But there should also be a new approach and concept toward finding a peaceful solution. There are signs that a peaceful solution can be reached. There is an opportunity for us to end the conflict in Aceh with a new policy. I appeal to the leaders of the separatists to reunite [with Indonesia...
...that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya’s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...
...that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya’s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...
...Mortal Blow? After the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid were blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA - but turned out to be the work of a group thought to have links with al-Qaeda - it was comforting to think ETA might be a spent force. But despite a series of sweeping arrests in the past decade, cross-border raids in Spain and France this month uncovered evidence that the organization is far from broken. Last week Spanish forces arrested five ETA members after Oct. 3 sweeps netted 18 Basque militants, and found enormous caches of arms, munitions and nearly...