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Russia: 13 Years Since the 1st Chechen War
12 Dec 2007 23:07:54 GMT
Author: Global Voices

Dmitri Minaev of De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis commemorates the 13th anniversary of the First Chechen War by linking to his earlier translation of a Chechen journalists recollections from that time.
 
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What next for Kosovo?
12 Dec 2007 14:58:00 GMT
Author: Nina Brenjo

The talks about the final status of Kosovo, which have dragged on for months, are officially over. What happens next seems to be anybody's guess, says the Balkans commentator Micha Glenny, writing in Britain's New Statesman.

Kosovo Albanians are planning to declare independence soon and Serbia is refusing to listen to any argument containing the word 'independence', so can we expect another war in the province?

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Southern Sri Lanka also feeling effects of conflict
11 Dec 2007 11:25:00 GMT
Author: Amjad Mohamed-Saleem

As I sat down to think about writing this blog post, I felt reluctant to touch on the security situation in Sri Lanka - as you might have expected - because I felt enough seemed to have been said about it already.

I reflected on a conversation I'd had with an old friend of mine who called from the United States to find out "whether I was ok?", since she'd heard the situation in Sri Lanka was really bad. For a moment I lost track of what she meant, and assumed she was talking about how badly Sri Lanka had played on the first day of the cricket test against England. Then I realised she was talking about the recent spate of bomb attacks and the deteriorating security situation.

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Belgium Is Not Rwanda
10 Dec 2007 21:07:00 GMT
Author: Andrew Stroehlein

Blaming the media is an easy game every politician plays, but here in Belgium, it has just taken a step -- more like an enormous leap -- too far. After spending ages trying to form a government with no success, Yves Leterme, the Flemish Christian Democrat leader, lashed out at French-language state broadcaster RTBF, comparing it to Radio Mille Collines in Rwanda.

While Leterme's general state of frustration may be somewhat understandable -- today marks six months to the day since the general election in June, and still Belgium has no new government -- that can be no excuse for throwing perspective out the window as he did in an interview with Flemish newspaper Het Belang van Limburg on Saturday. It is an insult to the intelligence of the Belgian public and to the victims of Rwanda.

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Russia: Prison Torture Video
10 Dec 2007 20:14:00 GMT
Author: Global Voices

Robert Amsterdam posts a secret video made in 2006 by a prison guard of a Preventative Actions exercise by the OMON (special police squad) performed at a prison camp in Yekaterinburg: The appalling instances of beatings, torture, inhumane treatment and excessive and arbitrary violence shown in this recording inarguably represent a fundamental violation of human rights.

 
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