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Date: 21/06/2012
"This is the victory of an entire people that has served as a springboard"
Maider Etxebarria
Sortu's promoters consider the legalisation of pro-independence party should “signal the final overcoming of an illegalization cycle”, warn that “certain State sectors still back the violation of fundamental rights” · Sortu will be able to join EH Bildu coalition, which could win next Euskadi election according to opinion polls
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Date: 14/06/2012
What we refrain ourselves from saying on Azawad
OPINION. Which are the main issues that are behind the most usual discourses that are found in the media on Azawad? Which are the foreign links around the proposal for an Islamic state there, if MNLA has repeatedly stated that it is against that idea? CIEMEN Recognition Area's Soraya Sough explains some of the key issues here.
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Date: 05/06/2012
Who is falling into whose trap in Azawad?
Secular MNLA undergoes an internal debate on how to secure a secular Azawad vis-à-vis Ansar Dine · The Islamists have tripled their troops thanks to the recruitment of militants · Several voices within MNLA reject any agreement with Ansar Dine, while others argue that current circumstances almost force the secular movement to reach a pact with Islamists
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Date: 25/05/2012
Leyla Zana, the never ending jail sentence
Kurdish politician is again sentenced to prison on charges of terrorism · This is her fifth conviction in only four years, all of them based in some speeches delivered by her · Zana served a 10 years sentence because of alleged membership to PKK
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Date: 15/05/2012
2,000 Palestinian prisoners agree to put an end to one-month long hunger strike
Israel accepts to either release or indict people being held in prison without trial · Relatives of strikers will be allowed to visit them · Shin Bet says that prisoners have accepted “to absolutely stop terror activity from inside Israeli jails”
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Date: 02/05/2012
Abkhaz government claims ethnic population is coming back from Syria
NEWS IN BRIEF. People moving are descendants of 19th century muhajirs and escape civil war
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Date: 26/04/2012
The Philippines and MILF agree to establish a new autonomous region for Mindanao Moros
The Government says that a “major step” has been taken although it is not “the final peace agreement” · The self-governing entity “shall have a ministerial form of government”, wealth and power sharing will be negotiated · Further talks will be held in May
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Date: 25/04/2012
Mapuche teenager wounded by army during another incursion into indigenous territory
Minor receives ten pellet shots during an action in which troops fire against local school and several homes · The municipality of Ercilla in Chile has already been attacked by the army up to 14 times during the last months · The Mapuche in Argentina praise the nationalisation of YPF oil company but want its responsibilities in social and environmental harms to be clarified.
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Date: 18/04/2012
Strikers criticize Turkey for having put PKK leader in isolation while “attacking civilian and defenceless people” · 15 Kurdish activists join the hunger strike in Strasbourg to put pressure on the Council of Europe, which is asked to send a delegation of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture to the prison where Öcalan is jailed
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Date: 13/04/2012
Libyan crisis expanded: Toubou people fear “ethnic cleansing”
Arab and Toubou fighters clash in southern city of Sabha, 70 people dead · Local lead says they will ask for an “international intervention” in order to create a Toubou state is the situation is not addressed · Eastern Cyrenaica had previously asked for a federal Libya
