Word: separatist
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...Basques eligible to decide the control of one of Europe's bloodiest regions, and the majority of them decided that while Mayor Oreja may be popular with Spaniards, he is anathema to Basques. Or rather, they flatly rejected the idea of the central powers stepping in to resolve the separatist issue that has been marked by ETA's murder of some 800 people over the past three decades. "The PP deserved to lose," said Basque lawyer Marta Cebreros. "They came in like a colonial conqueror...
...Definitely. In fact the West has probably played an important role in brokering the agreement, and making it clear that there is no politically acceptable alternative. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson this week issued the harshest condemnation by a Western official of the National Liberation Army (the Albanian separatist guerrilla group), calling them criminals and thugs. On the other hand, he also leaned heavily on the government to avoid declaring a state of war, which could inflame the conflict. The West has clearly been raising the pressure on the NLA in Kosovo, too, which remains the key logistical support base...
...information from “criminals” like Zhou Jiangxiong. These practices are particularly prevalent in restive Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where ethnic minorities and their families undergo various forms of cruel and unusual punishment if they are even suspected of being involved in separatist activities...
Aceh, an oil- and gas-rich province on the opposite end of the Indonesian archipelago, is starting to relive the East Timor tragedy. Separatist sentiment is building in the seaside towns, the jungle up-country and rice-growing villages. In reaction, the military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most...
...even weaker grip on the nation than Habibie did. Last year Wahid promised a political autonomy and economic package for Aceh. But under pressure from the military, nationalists and Vice President Megawati, Wahid last week issued a Presidential Instruction calling for local officials to reinstate public services and destroy separatist movements using any means necessary...