Word: separatist
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...Line of Control through Kashmir in 1949, dividing the disputed Himalayan region into Indian and Pakistani parts. Because the Line of Control also split the area around Khan's village of Uroosa, he was cut off from all but his most immediate family. The divide deepened in 1989, when separatist rebels, incensed at India's heavy-handed rule of its only Muslim-majority state, began an uprising in the meadows of the Kashmir valley to the east. India suppressed the insurgency with an iron fist and reinforced its border with hundreds of thousands of troops; Pakistan sent money first...
...DIED. ERSA SIREGAR, 52, Indonesian television reporter who was caught in the cross fire in a shoot-out between Indonesian troops and members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who were holding him; in East Aceh, Indonesia. The head of the International Federation of Journalists said the rebels had earlier agreed to free Siregar and his cameraman, but closing the deal fell apart because the military wouldn't allow human-rights organizations in to arrange the release. The military placed the blame on GAM and accused the rebels of using Siregar as a human shield...
...This month, the Bhutanese army went into battle for the first time, attacking 30 camps inside the country's southern border occupied by 3,000 separatist guerrillas from the Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously, the Indian army sealed its side of the frontier. (Some rebels also help smuggle weapons and people from China and Southeast Asia to insurgencies in the region.) By late last week, 92 guerrillas and 37 Bhutanese soldiers were reported killed in clashes, and hundreds of guerrillas, including some senior leaders, had been captured. Bhutan is apparently preparing for a sustained campaign. The King's 19-year...
...fleet of toxic U.S. Navy "ghost ships" after a high court judge ruled that the license awarded to dismantler Able UK was invalid. The fate of four ships already in the U.K. was unclear. Blow to ETA FRANCE Police arrested four suspected members of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA, including its alleged military leader and chief of logistics, in the southwestern village of Lons. All four were placed under formal investigation on suspicion of having links with a terrorist organization. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said ETA had been "decapitated" - a claim officials have made before. Surprise Setback GERMANY...
...Chen might never have won the presidency in 2000 if China had not branded him a "dangerous separatist" whose election would bring war to the Taiwan Strait. Taiwanese, tired of China's bellicose rhetoric, rallied around him. But this time, until the referendum issue erupted, Beijing had deliberately held its fire. That, coupled with a steady drop in Chen's popularity over the years, apparently forced the President to seek a fresh squabble with China. "China is a useful enemy for Chen," says Su Chi, a senior policy adviser to the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party. "It's a scarecrow...