Word: separatists
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...Ministry of Propaganda?this month ordered the closure of the Beijing New Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover-up of the SARS epidemic; separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang; the financial scandal swirling around Shanghai tycoon Zhou Zhengyi, and avian flu, which has broken out twice in China in the past five years and can kill humans...
...KILLED. LOTHAR HEINRICH ALBERT, 54, a German tourist; by government troops; in Aceh province, Indonesia. Albert and his wife, Elizabeth Engel, arrived in Aceh for a cycling tour in late April, before hostilities between the military and separatist rebels resumed. The army says soldiers shot at the couple's campsite thinking they were guerrilla fighters. Engel was hit in the knee, and is in stable condition. The military has come under fire for being trigger-happy and killing noncombatants...
Khairurrazi was among the first casualties of a massive military campaign launched last week by the Indonesian military to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement after the government's peace talks with the rebels collapsed. The fiercely nationalistic Acehnese have long resented what they consider Indonesia's illegitimate occupation. In 27 years of fighting between the military and the separatists, some 12,000 people have lost their lives. The military claimed the Peusangan villagers were killed during a shoot-out. But witnesses tell TIME that some of the eight males, from 11 to 20 years old, were shot...
...ARRESTED. SAIFULLAH (MUKLIS) YUNOS, alleged head of special operations for the Philippine separatist group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded...
...still a risk of further terrorist attacks in the kingdom. Violence Resumes SPAIN Two policemen died and a third was critically injured when a bomb exploded under their car in the small town of Sanguesa in Navarra province, which borders the northern Basque region. Authorities blamed the Basque separatist group ETA for the attack, which came days after municipal elections from which the separatist party Batasuna was barred on the grounds it was linked to ETA. French to the Rescue DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The U.N. authorized a French-led peacekeeping force to go to the eastern Ituri region, where...