Word: separatist
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...Megawati are unlikely to be willing to see her succeed the ailing president, and yet her supporters have always believed that by accepting the veep job she was simply biding her time to assume the reins. The military may have its own agendas, particularly in light of the mounting separatist violence in the outlying islands of Aceh and Irian Jaya. Some observers have also suggested that mounting communal violence between Christians and Muslims both in the Moluccas and in the capital itself may also be a sign that elements in the military are fomenting trouble to underline their own claims...
...Iligan, a town on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. The reason: she was jealous of a newborn brother. She stayed there for three years, and then split her time between Manila and Mindanao until the age of 11. (As President, Arroyo says she will concentrate on the separatist problem that has plagued Mindanao for decades.) At 14, she moved into MalacaNang with her father. She was always a strong student, earning the top grades in her Catholic girls' high school. (She was valedictorian at graduation.) For two years she studied economics at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University...
Last year India and Pakistan almost fought a war over Kashmir. Now they appear set to make peace, with India extending its unilateral cease-fire against separatist groups there, and now Pakistan beginning to withdraw its troops. Why the change...
...troops came under fire for the first time in Kosovo today, after blowing up a supply route used by Albanian separatist guerrillas who've been mounting provocative attacks across the border inside Serbia. Are the changes under way in Washington and the coming elections for the Yugoslav parliament prompting the region's Albanian nationalists to ratchet up their campaign for independence for Kosovo...
...Serb opposition leader now, but Albanian refugees are once again leaving their homes and a new round of ethnic Serb-Albanian conflict threatens to break out any moment along Kosovo's northern border. At the weekend, the new reformist government in Belgrade set Monday as a deadline for Albanian separatist guerrillas who infiltrated from Kosovo to withdraw from a string of villages inside Serbia, or face eviction by the Yugoslav army. And though new president Vojislav Kostunica later postponed the deadline indefinitely - saying he wanted to give diplomacy a chance - the situation poses a huge dilemma for NATO, since...