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...lifted a yearlong state of martial law in Aceh in mid-May, there has been no discernible difference in the lives?and deaths?of ordinary Acehnese. The army has yet to announce the withdrawal of any of the approximately 50,000 soldiers and police sent in to crush the separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (also known by its Indonesian acronym G.A.M.). Bloody clashes are an almost daily occurrence, with security forces claiming to have killed 24 rebels in a single week in early June. Also unchanged is the steady stream of reports of mysterious civilian killings like Ishak...
...bounced his first nomination in May. A second rejection would trigger a general election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances of joining the E.U., whose leaders will decide in December whether to open accession negotiations with Ankara . Ultimately...
...clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov not to rebroadcast the segment. Parfyonov complied, but daily newspaper Kommersant ran both the interview and NTV's written order to kill it. The channel didn't hesitate to cancel...
...Russian President returned to Moscow and informed his Cabinet that the capital, Grozny, looked "horrible." He apparently didn't mention that it looks that way because the Russian military has periodically pounded it with bombs and artillery shells as part of the Kremlin's campaign to quell a separatist uprising in the region. With last week's assassination of Moscow's hand-picked Chechen President, Akhmad Kadyrov, Putin might also have remarked that his strategy for pacifying Chechnya looked pretty horrible too. But Kadyrov's murder gives Putin a choice: he can launch yet another crackdown or finally...
...Baba Lukman personifies the south's rage against Bangkok. A slightly built man in his 50s, he is a self-confessed separatist fighter who leads a cell of militants aligned to a group calling itself New P.U.L.O. (According to Andrew Tan, a regional security expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, New P.U.L.O. is one of six main groups that have recently pooled their resources under a single banner, Bersatu, the Malay word for united.) In what is a rare interview with a southern Thai militant, Time met with Lukman a few days prior to the April 28 bloodbath...