Full Coverage: Conflict

07/30/2004 La Camera ha approvato ieri a stragrande maggioranza la legge che dal 2005 sospende il servizio militare obbligatorio e prevede solo volontari nelle Forze Armate. Critica l'Associazione Obiettori Nonviolenti che definisce il provvedimento ''assurdo'' e viola l'articolo 51 della Costituzione. Intanto l'Associazione italiana assistenza vittime arruolati nelle forze armate (Anavafaf) chiede a Ciampi di intervenire sul caso dei militari italiani esposti all'uranio: il 15 settembre la commissione Difesa del Senato voterà per l'istituzione della Commissione d'inchiesta parlamentare sull'uranio impoverito.

07/30/2004 In an apparently self-contradictory move, the U.S. military this week conferred “protected status” on members of an Iranian armed group that is listed as foreign terrorist organization by U.S. authorities. With this new status, members of the People’s Mujahideen (Mujahedin-e Khalq) cannot be extradited from their current base in Iraq to face trial in Iran and are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

07/30/2004 The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the commencement of formal investigation into war crimes in Uganda this week. The investigation, prompted by a request from the government of Uganda, will look at the conduct of both rebel and government forces in the 18-year conflict in the northern part of the country.

07/29/2004 Le mouvement Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Union des Paysans Haitiens) dénonce les choix économiques du gouvernement intérimaire, qui vient de recevoir une promesse d'aide d'1,85 milliard de dollars de la part de la communauté internationale sur la base du Cadre de Coopération Intérimaire (CCI).

07/29/2004 Even as the local administration in Nepal remains virtually paralyzed, Maoist rebels are reportedly running parallel courts in rural areas, which dispense rough and ready justice, much to the satisfaction of the poor.

07/29/2004 After months of skirmishing with US forces, insurgents and citizens in the central Iraqi town of Ramadi say that they are preparing to drive out the Americans altogether. They are attempting to emulate their neighbours in Fallujah, where the US Marines have essentially abandoned the town to the insurgents.

07/29/2004 After working in Afghanistan for 24 years, Médecins sans Frontières, one of leading global aid organisations, has begun pulling out due to the deteriorating security situation in the conflict-ravaged country.

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The results of a recent poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) showed that most Americans support sending U.S. troops to protect civilian population in Darfur provided other nations contribute 75 per cent of the forces necessary.

07/28/2004 With "outrage and bitterness," Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is closing all its medical programs in Afghanistan. Today's decision follows the June 2 killing of five MSF workers in a deliberate attack. Given the government's failure to respond, the group says it cannot assure the safety of its volunteers. MSF has delivered humanitarian medical assistance in Afghanistan since 1980.

07/28/2004 El oriente antioqueño, que ocupa 7,000 km² y cuenta con 23 municipios, está ubicado en el noroccidental departamento de Antioquia. Es una de las regiones más militarizadas de Colombia: además de seis batallones del Ejército y numerosos destacamentos policiales, hay cuatro frentes guerrilleros —dos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) y dos del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)—, así como dos bloques paramilitares.

07/28/2004 Decades of violent insurgency have taken a heavy toll on the education system in India's restive northeast, where scores of schools remain closed due to fear, making a mockery of the Indian government's recent pledge to make elementary education compulsory by 2005.

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Afghanistan's Taliban ruler Mullah Omar © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

With the recent captures of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar’s brother-in-law as well as the Taliban commander of western and southern Afghanistan, Afghan and U.S. intelligence officials are convinced that they are getting close to nabbing Omar, the fugitive head of the Taliban organization.

07/28/2004 Residents of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo fled their homes in June when rebel forces attacked their towns. They returned home this month only to find they had lost everything to looting by government and rebel troops.

07/27/2004 Amid continuing reports of attacks by Arab militias against black Africans in the western province of Darfur in Sudan, the United States and its main allies in Europe are urgently pressing the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against militia leaders and their government supporters.

07/27/2004 Threats by radical Islamists, absence of reliable population figures and voters’ ignorance are only some of the factors that are making difficult the process of voter registration for the forthcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan.

07/27/2004 Over 20,000 people gathered in front to the Macedonian Parliament last night (Monday, July 26) to protest the proposed changes in the territorial organization of Macedonia. The protests, which proceeded in spite of the torrential rain that fell last night, were organized by the leading parties of the Macedonian opposition, and featured speakers from all the organizers.

07/27/2004 Tras el éxito que significó la conferencia de donantes sobre Haití, que logró promesas por US$160 millones más que la cantidad prevista, el gobierno interino de Puerto Príncipe se halla bajo presión por la persistencia de los grupos armados que se rebelaron contra el expresidente Jean Bertrand Aristide y que aún controlan parte del país pese con la presencia de cascos azules extranjeros.

07/26/2004 Skopje – With increased police presence and metal riot barriers cordoning off the streets that run around the Parliament of Macedonia, the capital of Macedonia is awaiting the start of the protest rally, scheduled to start at 20:00 hours in front of the Parliament.

07/26/2004 Ne znam koliko je konačno koštala ceremonija otvaranja Starog mosta, ali znam da na kraju, od predviđenih 500 hiljada maraka za cijeli festival i ceremoniju, to neće biti ni 70 posto navedene sume. Vrlo brzo ćemo imati precizne podatke o tome.

07/26/2004 Sinoć oko 00,40 sati došlo je do jake eksplozije na putničkom motornom vozilu marke BMW koje je bilo parkirano u ulici Merhemića trg kod broja 11 u sarajevskom naselju Ciglane.