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U S Embassy U S State
1,401 wordsA civil war that has raged for seven years in the small West African country of Sierra Leone has turned increasingly brutal. (1, p. 1) Rebels are mutilating civilians without much response from the international community. A strong Nigerian contingency has tried to suppress the rebellion, but the rebels continue to cause major trouble in Sierra Leone. The rebels overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. However, President Kabbah returned to office on March 10, 1998 to face the task of restoring or...
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Crimes Against Humanity Sierra Leone
1,419 words... e. With President Kabbah back at the head of government, many people faced criminal charges of collaborating with the coup. A former government minister and nine others were sentenced to death for collaborating with the bloody 1997 coup. The sentences pronounced in the High Court by Judge Bankole Rashid brought to 27 the number of civilians condemned to death by hanging in connection with the May 1997 coup and its aftermath. (9, p. 1) Veteran politician Nancy Steele, 75, and two other women ...
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National Missile Defense Gore And Bush
1,163 words... an across-the-board tax break, meaning everyone will benefit. The rich, the middle class, and the poor will get a tax break. Bush's proposal would be a trillion-dollar tax break that will start in 2001 and last until 2010. Gore believes that Bush's tax break will only benefit the rich. It is true, the rich will benefit from the tax break because the rich pay one third of the taxes in the U. S. It is believed that Republicans have always favored the rich, and in the case of Bush's tax break, ...
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Supreme Soviet Soviet Union
2,487 words... r received a push forward when the successor to the Tajik KGB began to distribute large quantities of arms and ammunition to pro-governmental demonstrators on 3 May 1992. However, Nabiev was forced to form a coalition government on 6 May 1992 in which eight of twenty-four posts went to the Gorno-Badakhshani- and Gharmi-based opposition of democratic, nationalist, and Islamic parties and groups that had been demonstrating in Dushanbe since late March. However, this compromise did not satisfy ...
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Day By Day Ethnic Cleansing
2,121 wordsI. Introduction The bombing of Kosovo by NATO forces may finally come to an end. While the excuses for bombing the troubled region have been challenged, for the most part the world concurs that the atrocities gong on in that nation warranted international action. In any event, the bombing did start and it continues, despite the accidental hits on pedestrian villages and buildings which were not targets in the first place. They have been explained away as unavoidable during such a mission. Casual...
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Day By Day Peacekeeping Force
2,201 words... r attempt as unimpressive (PG). In the mean time, problems persisted with bad feelings between China and the U. S. Soon, China demanded that there be an immediate halt to the bombing campaign before the United Nations considers any peace plan (PG). Protests against the U. S. by the Chinese began to slow down ("Day by day" PG). In fact, on May 14 th, as part of a planned visit to China, NBC's Matt Lauer was finally allowed to broadcast from the Great Wall. His trip had been delayed due to the...
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Hundreds Of Thousands Slobodan Milosevic
1,419 wordsKosovo is a southern province of Serbia, the core of the former Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosevic is currently president of Yugoslavia. He has been president in Serbia since 1989. In 1989, President Slobodan Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomous status and declared the Albanian language unofficial. Yugoslavia came on the edge of economical collapse under his role. The crisis and war he has started with Kosovo is his third war. Last year violence broke out between Serbian police (MUP) and rebe...
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Peacekeeping Force War Crimes
381 wordsWar crime suspects hunted after jailbreak MITROVICA, Kosovo Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeepers and U. N. police are searching for a group of Serb prisoners, many charged with war crimes, who escaped from a jail in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica. Roadblocks have been set up on roads leading to Serbia, while dogs are also being used to track the men through a wooded area near the jail. The provinces United Nations administration said the break-out took place on Saturday at around 9: 00 p. m....
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