Full Coverage: Conflict

28.05.2004 The murder of a university don in eastern Sri Lanka this week following a spate of killings in clashes between the two factions of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas has rekindled fears of ethnic warfare in the country.

28.05.2004 The historic peace agreement signed between the government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), officially ends a war that has killed 2 million people. The agreement offers Sudan its best hope for peace in two decades. If observed in letter and spirit, it would allow people to return home and build new lives, free from fear and violence.

27.05.2004 Amid an international uproar over prisoner abuse in Iraq, a lawyers' body in Indian administered Kashmir says relentless torture and malnourishment has caused insanity and organ failure among many inmates in this state's prisons, some of whom are from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

27.05.2004 Insurgency and political chaos in Nepal has severely impacted backpacker tourism during the peak summer season, causing acute economic hardship to small-scale entrepreneurs.

26.05.2004 A partir dos dados coligidos em todo o Brasil pela Comissão Pastoral da Terra - CPT – é possível acompanhar a evolução das lutas sociais no campo brasileiro.

25.05.2004 In a bid to control education in Nepal, Maoist rebels are abducting hundreds of teachers from far-flung rural areas to indoctrinate them, causing many terrorized educationists to flee their posts.

20.05.2004 In a belly blow to Nepal's struggling farmers, thousands of liters of milk and tons of vegetables are decaying in remote rural areas due to frequent strikes by Maoist rebels that are blocking transportation.

20.05.2004 Higher education is one of the worst casualties of the 15-year insurgency in Indian administered Kashmir, where an erstwhile poultry farm serves as a ramshackle college and institutes are understaffed and overcrowded.

20.05.2004 It seems obvious that ARENA’s neoliberal policies and authoritarian inclinations have proven inadequate in addressing the deeper roots of violence and crime—namely, psychosocial trauma, social exclusion and impunity. In the meantime, tragically, violence continues to claim the lives of thousands of Salvadoran citizens.

20.05.2004 O escritor Fernando de Morais, o deputado federal Ivan Valente (PT-SP), o economista Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, o dirigente do PT, Markus Sokol, e o coordenador do Grito dos Excluídos Continental, Luiz Bassegio, participaram, juntamente com mais de 150 pessoas, do Ato Público contra a decisão do governo brasileiro em enviar tropas ao Haiti.

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18.05.2004 UNICEF has expressed its concern over reports alleging that children might have been among those abused in detention centres and prisons in Iraq.

18.05.2004 Israel's unjustified destruction of thousands of Palestinian and Arab Israeli homes as well as vast areas of agricultural land has reached an unprecedented level and must stop immediately, Amnesty International said today.

17.05.2004 Following a ceasefire between the government and a frontline tribal separatist group in the northeast Indian state of Tripura, the victims of over 700 cases of atrocities by insurgents despair of bringing them to justice.

14.05.2004 The move came in the midst of an energetic public-relations campaign by the U.S. State Department and the Colombian government. Both administrations attempted to paint U.S. policy in Colombia as an assured success. However, statistics show a stable presence of cocaine on the U.S. market, and there’s evidence of continued ties between members of the Colombian military and brutal right-wing paramilitary groups.

14.05.2004 Jere Maluk's fading memories of home are riddled with scars of war. Under the twilight gleaming through the window of his austere Cairo flat, he murmurs how his once serene village of Juba in southern Sudan began to crack under the pressure of civil warfare.

13.05.2004 Like their contemporaries from around the Americas, Colombia’s indigenous peoples have for hundreds of years defended themselves against outsiders bent on controlling them and their rich lands. The new millennium has failed to bring relief as the country’s aboriginal population continues to suffer for resisting the forces of the country’s civil war.

13.05.2004 On the occasion of the celebration of May 9, Victory Day, Nada Sevo, Mayor of Prijedor, organized a reception for the members of the National Liberation Struggle (NOB) – decorated with the Memorial Plaque.

13.05.2004 An Afghan police officer has alleged that American soldiers are involved in beating and sexually abusing detainees in army jails in Afghanistan.

12.05.2004 Une délégation haïtienne composée de deux membres du Jury de l'UNESCO pour la Liberté de la Presse en Haïti, Michèle Pierre Louis, présidente de FOKAL (Fondation Konesans ak Libète) et de notre collaborateur Vario Sérant, également directeur de l'information à Télé Haïti, a pris part à un colloque sur la liberté de la presse et la gestion des conflits qui s'est tenu à Port Of Spain (Trinidad), du 2 au 4 mai 2004.