Full Coverage: Conflict

31.08.2004 A growing man-animal conflict between villagers and starving wild elephants has triggered a spate of killings in the northeast Indian states of Assam and Tripura.

31.08.2004 On a shallow slope between two hills of orange rock and sand, a man's body lies curled in a foetal position. His hands are thrown up as if to protect his face from the bullet that punched a hole in his temple. A few feet away on the bare slope, another man's body lies between two youths. His arms are stretched out to the two younger ones, as if he was embracing them at the moment of death.

31.08.2004 Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team visiting the area has said.

31.08.2004

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Residents, municipal workers and volunteers started clean-up and reconstruction operations in the Iraqi city of Najaf this week. Describing the scale of destruction from three weeks of fighting as “horrible,” a government official said re-construction effort will be geared toward hospitals and other public utilities first before compensating people for their personal losses.

27.08.2004 The head of the UN mission to Afghanistan told the Security Council this week that electoral workers and voters need immediate protection to counter a likely increase in violent attacks by the Taliban before and during the October presidential elections. UN electoral workers fear that the threat of violence could keep people away from the polls.

27.08.2004

Sudanese flag on hut razed by militia in Darfur © Sven Torfinn

Americans can help the people of Darfur by urging the media to cover the atrocities and by letting our government know we care, says Jerry Fowler. Fowler claims that one reason the U.S. government did little while 800,000 Rwandans were murdered in 1994 was because “it didn’t hear much from Americans who cared.”

26.08.2004 At first glance Abshok camp looks like a film set, with its neat lines of white tents pitched on orange sand dunes. But in reality it is home to more than 40,000 refugees with little more than life's basics.

26.08.2004 With the return of Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani to Iraq this week, there is the strong possibility of a negotiated withdrawal for Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi militia from the holy city of Najaf.

26.08.2004 Rape is a weapon of war in Darfur, says Fidele Lumeya. Its survivors are more most often rejected for being a visible reminder of the shame inflicted on the community by the rape act. The women will be inhibited from acting as full and honored members of society; their prospects for marriage or a happy home life effectively erased forever.

25.08.2004 The banning of a private television channel in the northeast Indian state of Manipur combined with the federal government's accusation Tuesday that at least five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the region have links with militants has triggered a controversy in this already volatile region.

25.08.2004 The recent spate of attacks by wild animals on humans and domestic animals has triggered demands for monetary compensation.

24.08.2004 Campaigners at Oxfam and Amnesty International are urging Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to do all he can to bring an end to the violence in Darfur, western Sudan. Violence in Darfur has forced over a million people from their homes. Oxfam has welcomed Straw's visit, and Amnesty briefed the Foreign Secretary before he left for Sudan.

24.08.2004 According to data gathered from families camping at nearby religious sites, at least 10,000 families have been displaced by the fighting in the city of Najaf. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been delivering food and water to the refugees, said the number could be as high as 50,000.

24.08.2004 Located in western Sudan, Darfur is the size of Texas and was home to some 36 different ethnic groups with an estimated population of five million. The groups co-existed peacefully for centuries with Arab migrants, each in their own homeland. However recurrent episodes of drought and desertification over the past 30 years have led to increased conflicts between Arab and indigenous groups.

23.08.2004 OneWorld partner Oxfam provides basic information and facts about the events in Rwanda in 1994, their causes, and what is happening today.

23.08.2004 The Maoist faction in Nepal has blockaded the capital Kathmandu merely by threatening violence to any attempts to move supplies into the City. Facing shortages and rising prices, an angry population blames both the government and the rebels.

23.08.2004 Rivals in western Afghanistan agreed to a cease-fire last week after the arrival of the Afghan National Army (ANA). With 13,700 soldiers, the fledgling ANA has become a force that President Hamid Karzai has used to douse flareups between warlords who still rule a majority of the country.

23.08.2004 Weeks of agitation against a federal anti-terror law in India's insurgency-hit northeastern state of Manipur have badly hit the state's education system, with students hitting the streets instead of attending class.

23.08.2004 A UN expert on Afghanistan has denounced abuses at an illegal jail and is seeking answers from the US, the UN News Centre reports. Prof. Cherif Bassiouni called conditions at the prison inhuman and the detention illegal, because the suspects were arrested as combatants and therefore as prisoners of war. He has also raised concerns about the situation of women tried and sentenced by tribal councils.

23.08.2004 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is set to close in 2010 but more than half its cases have yet to go to trial. There is a funding shortfall for the tribunal and a lack of international cooperation in the investigations.