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The unfortunately-acronymed Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been delivered a blow in its fight against the government of the Philippines. The army claims (though this is disputed by the rebel group) that they have captured Camarudin Hadji Ali, one of the rebel group's key military leaders.
Vanguard's Tracey Chang met with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in a Vanguard show entitled The Art of War.
Vanguard: The Art of War
This capture comes as violence has been escalating in the region. According to the BBC, "More than 300 people have been killed and up to 750,000 displaced in fresh fighting."
From Tracey: "Southern Mindanao, where much of the fighting has taken place, is one of the poorest areas of the Philippines. And when we were there, we found that poverty played a part in contributing to the conflict because many unemployed males are drawn to join the rebel movement with hopes of a better future for themselves."
Other Vanguard shows:
Rebels in the Pipeline - Mariana van Zeller in the Niger Delta
Narco War Next Door - Laura Ling on drug violence in MexicoThe unfortunately-acronymed Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been delivered a blow in... more
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Today we have lawmakers, in the state legislatures of at least 20 states, introducing bills to assist their states in re-establishing their constitutional sovereignty from the Federal Government. The federal government has just become entirely too overbearing as strong central governments always do. You might even say… as our current federal government has become.Today we have lawmakers, in the state legislatures of at least 20 states, introducing... more
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Heterosexual women, Dr Chivers and her colleagues found, were no more excited by naked men doing yoga or tossing stones into the ocean than they were by the control footage: pans of the snowcapped Himalayas.
When straight women viewed a video of a naked woman doing calisthenics, on the other hand, their blood flow increased significantly.Heterosexual women, Dr Chivers and her colleagues found, were no more excited by naked... more
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At least seven people have been injured in a car bomb outside a police station in Ondarroa, in the Basque region of northern Spain.
Three policemen were among those hurt. Earlier, another car bomb exploded in the outskirts of the regional capital Vitoria but no-one was injured. Basque separatist group Eta phoned in a warning before the Vitoria blast. The attacks come at a time of increased turbulence in Basque politics, the BBC's Steve Kingstone, in Madrid, says. Spain's supreme court recently declared two Basque nationalist parties illegal because of alleged links to Eta.
The first car bomb exploded next to the headquarters of the Caja Vital Kutxa bank near the Basque regional capital, Vitoria, a regional Interior Ministry official said. It caused damage but no-one was injured. Several hours later, another car bomb detonated outside a police station in the port town of Ondarroa. Three police officers and four civilians were treated for minor injuries, including cuts and ear damage. Officials said two suspected bombers parked a car close to the outside wall of the station, threw a Molotov cocktail to attract attention and then detonated the car bomb.
Eta has claimed responsibility for killing more than 800 people in its four-decade campaign to set up an independent state straddling northern Spain and south-western France. At least seven people have been injured in a car bomb outside a police station in... more
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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- Indian authorities in Kashmir arrested more than a dozen pro-separatist leaders and placed the divided Himalayan region in an around-the-clock curfew to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally Monday.
The city centre of Lal Chowk, sealed off by tin sheets and razor fitted wire by Indian paramilitary forces Monday.
Still, stone-pelting mobs took the streets, clashing with police and security forces. Four people were killed, including one woman, and 45 others were wounded, a senior police officer said.
Separatist groups had planned Monday's sit-in at Lal Chowk, or Red Square, to oppose Indian rule in the Muslim-majority region. Over the last two weeks, protesters have held several such demonstrations calling for independence.
Security forces shut down all roads leading into the city and put up corrugated tin sheets and barbed wires to barricade Lal Chowk.
The political leaders were rounded up in pre-dawn raids at their residences. Among them were Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who head the hardline and the moderate factions of the region's separatist parties.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both. The region has been the cause of two wars between the two countries.
Authorities say an Islamic insurgency in the region has claimed up to 43,000 lives since 1989, but human rights groups say the toll could be double.
Violence had dropped off since the two countries launched a peace process in 2004, but surged again after the state government announced a plan in June to donate land to a Hindu shrine, generating massive protests by Muslims.
Hindus took to the streets demanding it be restored and 30 people died in subsequent clashes between police and protesters.
SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- Indian authorities in Kashmir arrested... more
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said that terrorism and extremism had emerged as the main challenge to India's unity.
He was speaking at Independence Day celebrations in the capital, Delhi. Hundreds of thousands of security personnel have been deployed across India following a series of bomb blasts in the past few months. There have also been violent protests more recently in Indian-administered Kashmir where Muslim separatists called for a boycott of the celebrations.
In his traditional Independence Day address made from Delhi's historic Red Fort, Mr Singh said: "Terrorism, extremism, communalism and fundamentalism have emerged as major challenges to the unity and integrity of our country." He said India needed to strengthen its intelligence services and police forces to deal with terrorism.
But Mr Singh's biggest concern is the growing violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, with more than 20 people killed in the past week. The region has witnessed the biggest protests since a separatist rebellion broke out nearly two decades ago. "In this hour of crisis, divisive politics will lead us nowhere. I appeal to all political parties to keep the long-term interests of Jammu and Kashmir in view and come together to find a permanent solution to the problems of the state," he said. Security is intense in Kashmir as well as the rest of India, with hundreds of thousands of forces deployed to prevent any possible violence.
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Georgian forces began bombarding the South Ossetian capital on Thursday night and are now closing in on the city. Russia has warned of unspecified consequences, but may have begun bombing Georgian villages.
For months, tension has been rising in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia on Russia's southern border. Late Thursday, the tension erupted into war, when Georgian ground forces, reinforced from the air, attacked separatist troops in an effort to re-establish control of the tiny region. Intense fighting has continued into Friday and there are reports of 15 civilian deaths, along with casualties among Russian peacekeepers stationed in the region.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday that his army had "freed" parts of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali. His prime minister, Lado Gurgenidze, said the offensive would continue until a "durable peace" had been established. A Georgian military leader said on TV that the operation aimed at "establishing a constitutional order in the region."
With Russia backing the South Ossetians, however, the violence threatens to become a larger regional war. Georgia has long said Russian "peacekeepers" stationed in South Ossetia were unwelcome. On Friday the Interior Ministry in Tbilisi claimed that three Russian jets flew into Georgian airspace and dropped bombs on the Georgian side of South Ossetia's border. Saakashvili said that several Georgian villages had been hit.
"A full-scale aggression has been launched against Georgia," Saakashvili said in a televised address. "Georgia will not yield its territory or renounce its freedom."
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Authorities in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia said Wednesday night that the outskirts of the region's capital were coming under heavy fire from Georgian-controlled territory, Russian news agencies reported.
Tensions in the region have soared recently, leading to fears of full-scale war. Georgian and South Ossetian officials were scheduled to meet Thursday to try to find resolution, but South Ossetia's president was quoted by the Interfax and ITAR-Tass agencies as saying the meeting was off.
Earlier Wednesday, Georgian and South Ossetian forces fired on each other in the region of the village of Nuli, and each blamed the other for starting the shooting. South Ossetian forces claimed to have taken control of strategic heights near Nuli that had been under Georgian control.
But South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity was quoted by ITAR-Tass as saying late Wednesday that "the proposal for a bilateral meeting is unacceptable since Georgia went into open military aggression against the people of South Ossetia on August 1st."
A night of heavy shooting round Tskhinvali on August 1 killed at least six people.
Most of South Ossetia, which is roughly 1.5 times the size of Luxembourg, has been under the control of an internationally unrecognized separatist government since the end of a war in the 1990s; Georgian forces hold large swaths of it.
Russia has close ties with the separatist government and with a similar separatist regime in Abkhazia. Russia has granted passports to most of these regions' residents and Tbilisi accuses Russian peacekeeping forces in both regions of supporting the separatists.
An outbreak of open war in either region could prompt Russia to send in more forces under the claim of protecting its citizens. Russia sent warplanes to circle over South Ossetia last month while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was visiting the nearby Georgian capital; Russian officials said the planes were sent up to try to deter alleged Georgian plans to mount on offensive on South Ossetia.
Georgian officials have claimed Russia is the instigator of the recent fighting.
Relations between Tbilisi and Moscow have long been uneasy, but worsened notably this year amid Georgia's push to join NATO and Russia's dispatch of additional peacekeeper forces to Abkhazia.
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16 Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in the muslim region of Xinjiang. Two attackers drove up to the post in a rubbish truck, throwing grenades before moving in to attack the policemen with knifes. State media reports that both terrorists have been captured.
Xinjiang, in the north-west of the country, is home to the Muslim Uighur people. Uighur separatists have waged a low-level campaign against Chinese rule for decades. This attack, just four days before the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing bring credence to Chinese officials claims that Muslim terrorists are the biggest threat to the games in China. 16 Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in the muslim... more
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A Basque separatist convicted of killing 25 people has been freed from jail in Spain after serving 21 years. The release of Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos has sparked outrage in Spain.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero spoke of his "contempt" for the former Eta militant, but said his government had to respect the law. De Juana Chaos was sentenced to more than 3,000 years in 1987, but under the penal code then in force, the maximum term he could serve was 30 years. He qualified for early release in 2004 but was given a further term for threatening behaviour. De Juana Chaos took part in a string of Eta attacks, including one of the group's deadliest - a Madrid car-bombing in 1986 which killed 12 members of the Guardia Civil police force.
In recent years he carried out several hunger strikes to protest against his treatment by the authorities. Mr Zapatero said De Juana Chaos "generates a perfectly understandable feeling of contempt" among all citizens "and of course the head of the government".
"But we must respect the law," the prime minister added. The group has killed more than 800 people in its four-decade campaign to set up an independent state straddling northern Spain and south-western France. The release of De Juana Chaos came 40 years to the day after Eta carried out its first targeted killing. A Basque separatist convicted of killing 25 people has been freed from jail in Spain... more
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Three bombs have exploded in Spain, with at least two believed to have been planted by Basque separatist group ETA. No injuries were reported following the blasts in the north of the country. One bomb exploded outside a bank in Getxo, damaging a cash dispenser and breaking windows. Officials said the homemade device packed into a gasoline tin went off without warning at about 5am. Five hours later, an anonymous caller said ETA had planted four bombs on beaches in Laredo, Ris and Noja as well as at a golf course close to Noja. Police cordoned off the towns and a device exploded near Laredo's beach at around 12:15 pm. It went off on the seafront promenade in the Cantabrian resort. Later in the day a second bomb exploded in Lardeo. The most recent attack by the armed Basque separatist group happened on July 4. The organisation, which is fighting for independence in the Basque region, carried out a bomb attack against a telecommunications centre.Three bombs have exploded in Spain, with at least two believed to have been planted by... more
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ETA is being blamed for the death of a Spanish civil guardsman in Capbreton, France. Another officer was badly wounded.
The men were working a surveillance operation French police.
This is the first killing since ETA ended their cease fire in June. ETA is being blamed for the death of a Spanish civil guardsman in Capbreton, France.... more
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