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...returned to the jungle to fight on, this time with backers ranging from China to U.S. allies such as Thailand. Meanwhile, in Phnom Penh, a new power struggle developed between the Vietnamese-backed leader Hun Sen and Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Ranarridh. As the Khmer Rouge began to splinter during the '90s, both Hun Sen and Ranarridh courted the support of its warring factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pol Pot's Final Escape | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. ?What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain?s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,? read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decision Time in Northern Ireland | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

BGLTSA must splinter into these smaller, more homogenous groups when addressing issues beyond legitimizing homoerotic desire...

Author: By David A. Campbell, | Title: A Splintering Community | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Volunteer Force (L.V.F.), a fringe paramilitary group that is staunchly opposed to the interparty peace talks under way in Belfast. Wright, a hotheaded, macho killer, was gunned down in a daring execution-style murder inside the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a violent Catholic splinter organization that is also strongly opposed to the talks, and has never agreed to join the cease-fire agreed to by the I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Violence On The Fringe | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Belfast Braces for a Bloody New Year Killings by both Republican and Unionist splinter groups have left Northern Ireland bracing for further bloodshed. The peace process can survive extremist attacks, but can it survive the politics of its participants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 12/30/1997 | See Source »

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