Word: separatists
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...claims in the media that the A levels were getting too easy. Officials at 100 schools said their students received marks well below those of their overall work. FRANCE Bonnie and Clyde French police arrested a man and a woman alleged to be military leaders of ETA, the Basque separatist group, in a raid that Spain called a blow "against terrorism." Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, 35, and Ainhoa Múgica Goñi, 32, were seized at a supermarket in the suburbs of Bordeaux after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms...
...both a show of enthusiasm and a prayer. The danger to the candidate was palpable. A platoon of Indian soldiers flanked him, edgily scanning the crowd and fingering their self-loading rifles, which they wielded for his protection. Merely by running as a moderate separatist in Kashmir's state assembly elections, the dapper 52-year-old has captured wild popularity. But as the letter he received that morning threatened, Sofi would be well advised to withdraw from the contest. Otherwise, warned the letter, in the name of Allah the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful, he would wind up dead...
...should be Indian, Pakistani or independent is avoided. Even so, the significance of the polls to be held over three weeks starting this month is difficult to overstate. It was the rigging of a 1987 vote in favor of the government-allied National Conference that eventually touched off a separatist insurgency that has cost 36,500 lives in 13 years. It is this rebellion, brutally suppressed by New Delhi and vigorously supported by Pakistan, that dominates South Asian politics and prompted the nuclear-armed neighbors to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops along their border in recent months. "They...
...Sofi, and 13 other separatist candidates in the districts of Kupwara and Baramulla, have put their lives on the line at a time when the tide of assassination is rising. But New Delhi is taking chances too, sending soldiers to protect the same activists whose cries of azadi (freedom) would a few months ago have met with arrest, even execution...
...some future administration to resolve." And he played down the importance of U.N. weapons inspections: "A return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever of [Saddam Hussein's] compliance with U.N. resolutions." SPAIN Biting Batasuna Basque nationalists formed blockades around the offices of Batasuna, the political wing of the separatist group eta, as riot police enforced a court order to close down the organization that authorities say funded and assisted terrorists. Police raided offices in five cities in northern Spain's Basque region and fought crowds of up to 300 with batons and rubber bullets. Here Batasuna's Eusebio Lasa...