Word: separatist
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...carrying out the contract killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov; in Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian...
...recent weeks Turkey and Iran, two neighbors that worry about the separatist aspirations of their own significant minority Kurdish populations, have tightened the noose around the Iraqi Kurds. As Turkey's civil war against Kurdish separatist guerrillas - an independent radical group known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK - has escalated since the beginning of the year, the Turkish army has begun massing at the Iraqi border. Last week, Turkish commandos began crossing the border to pursue PKK fighters who take refuge in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Iranian Army on Monday shelled Kurdish villages in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq...
...last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou two weeks ago. The main speaker was the Beijing-appointed Panchen...
...they try to mend the worst breach in relations with Indonesia since Australian peacekeepers were sent to East Timor six years ago. Nor will it calm Indonesians who claim that, by giving all but one of the group visas, Australia is meddling in their country's affairs and stoking separatist fervor. The men, women and children landed in a homemade outrigger canoe on the far northern Queensland coast in January. Since then, their case has led to the recalling of Indonesia's ambassador, prompted an increase in Indonesian naval patrols, and abruptly put an improving relationship, as Prime Minister John...
...lawyer, David Manne, says all have suffered at the hands of the military, including "quite a number who have witnessed massacres," and that their family and friends report being harassed since the group's escape. Some of the refugees, including Wainggai, have spent time in jail for raising the separatist Morning Star flag in public. When they flew into Melbourne last week, the Papuans joyously displayed it and sang. "It's an honor for us to receive these visas," Wainggai says. "But that doesn't mean that the Papuan situation has been resolved." Wrong, say both Jakarta and Canberra. With...