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...long-suffering population. People worried about getting kerosene in the winter or medicines for sick relatives. And they watched, bitterly, as ministers built grand dachas and drove around in Mercedes. Shevardnadze talked of anticorruption committees, but no official was ever prosecuted. Ongoing complications in the relationship between Russia and separatist statelet Abkhazia, after violence broke out in a remote part of that region in October, have further confused Shevardnadze's position...
...veterans rampaged through Bulawayo protesting the death of their colleague, looting stores and setting fire to opposition headquarters. The Commercial Farmers? Union was considering a legal challenge to a new presidential decree evicting more than 4,000 white farmers from their land. INDONESIA Mysterious Death The unexplained murder of separatist leader Theys Eluay sparked unrest in the province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, as suspicion grew of involvement by the Indonesian military. The chairman of the Papuan Presidium Council was found dead in his crashed car after being kidnapped on his way home. Eluay had recently rejected...
...pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...
...Pakistan are confronting each other over the disputed territory of Kashmir. The two countries traded artillery fire across the border, and at least 11 people died in clashes between Indian security forces and Islamic militants last week. In one incident, four armed men from the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba separatist group were killed at an Indian air base near Srinagar...
...other ends. The People’s Republic of China, for example, has used the current antiterrorism fervor to further repress the Uighur population of its western Xinjiang autonomous region. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim, do not speak Chinese and have little cultural affiliation with China. A Uighur separatist movement has used bombings and assassinations to pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam or teaching others its tenets outside of government control. Amnesty International reports...