Vol. 8 Issue 7 - Public International Law & Policy Group

More documents

Recommendations

Info

As a civil party in Gome's case, Gbagbo was awarded a symbolic franc for the "insult to his honor and probity." MTN-CI had earlier announced that its chief executive, Aimable Mpore, had left the Ivory Coast on Monday after being expelled for allegedly trying to "discredit" the president in connection with the same case. Mpore, a Canadian of Rwandan origin, was ordered to leave the west African state for having allegedly made a "gift" of about 65.5 million CFA francs to the Ivorian presidency. Gbagbo himself asked that Gome be tried for having "damaged his integrity". Return to Table of Contents Kashmir Police say clashes wound 18 in Indian Kashmir Associated Press, 2/11/09 Protesters who took to the streets of Indian Kashmir to mark the 25th anniversary of the execution of a militant leader clashed with security forces Wednesday, leaving at least 13 civilians and five police injured. Hundreds of Kashmiri Muslims threw rocks at Indian authorities during protests in several neighborhoods of Srinagar, the largest city in Jammu-Kashmir state, said senior police official Javed Afadul Mujtaba. Security forces fired tear gas in response. The protesters were calling for the remains of militant leader Maqbool Butt to be returned to Kashmir. Butt was a leader of the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, which spearheaded a violent campaign for Jammu-Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state, to secede from the predominantly Hindu country. Butt was hanged on Feb. 11, 1984, for the 1965 murder of an intelligence agent in Kashmir and was buried in New Delhi's Tihar Jail. The group gave up its arms in 1994 to launch a political campaign calling for independence. Nearly a dozen insurgent groups have been fighting for Kashmir's secession from India or its merger with Pakistan since 1989. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the conflict. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels, a charge Islamabad denies.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over control of Kashmir, since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947. A cease-fire line divides the Himalayan territory between the rivals who claim it in entirety. Kashmir opens airport to international traffic Izhar Wani, Agence France Presse, 2/14/09 Revolt-hit Indian Kashmir opened its high-security airport to international traffic Saturday in a move officials hope will lead to a tourism boom. The upgraded airport terminal, equipped with modern features including escalators, aerobridges, central heating systems and lifts, was inaugurated by Sonia Gandhi, the chief of India's ruling Congress Party. Minutes later the inaugural flight, from Dubai, landed at summer capital Srinagar's international airport with over two dozen passengers. Gandhi received the passengers as they disembarked from an Air India plane. "It is a very happy moment for all of us," said Gandhi, adding that the new airport would "boost tourism and help the locals." Around 30 Kashmiris were to fly to Dubai later Saturday. The project to upgrade the airport was approved by the Indian government in January 2005, a year after India and Pakistan began a peace process to resolve their disputes, including one over Kashmir. Initially, there will be a flight between Dubai and Srinagar every Saturday, India's civil aviation minister Praful Patil said. "We will surely extend the service to other parts of the world," he said. Violence has declined sharply in Kashmir since the start of the peace process, prompting India to unleash a wave of economic plans to win over Kashmiri Muslims, most of whom favor an independent Kashmir. In October, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gandhi inaugurated the first train service in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley. It took four years to upgrade Srinagar's dilapidated airport, which is heavily guarded by police and military after being stormed by rebels. Kashmir was a major tourist destination before an Islamic insurgency against Indian rule began in 1989. The unrest has so far left more than 47,000 people dead, according to an official count.
Page 1 and 2: PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WATCH Thursday,
Page 3 and 4: Kosovo marks 1 year of independence
Page 5 and 6: Whitman said he could not discuss p
Page 7 and 8: "Now that we have realized this is
Page 9 and 10: "However, the aforesaid statements
Page 11 and 12: The court has linked the former Bos
Page 13 and 14: The military regime has promised to
Page 15 and 16: Former US President George W. Bush'
Page 17 and 18: "How can we go on without the main
Page 19 and 20: "I don't want to be on the side of
Page 21 and 22: EU enlargement commissioner Olli Re
Page 23 and 24: "Have I said that Bosco Ntaganda ha
Page 25 and 26: The first victim of the operation h
Page 27 and 28: The five-day war and Russia's subse
Page 29: Tengku Syamsuddin, a spokesman for
Page 33 and 34: New Delhi has noted with strong app
Page 35 and 36: Serbs consider Kosovo to be the hea
Page 37 and 38: "The key to our success is in unity
Page 39 and 40: Macedonia EU mulls economic support
Page 41 and 42: "As for the content of the document
Page 43 and 44: The UN Security Council has called
Page 45 and 46: Moro Islamic Liberation Front which
Page 47 and 48: Somalia Overcrowding at Kenya refug
Page 49 and 50: "We are happy with that," he said,
Page 51 and 52: "With a growing number of children
Page 53 and 54: Dr. Thurairaja Varatharaja, the top
Page 55 and 56: Without a borehole, water was colle
Page 57 and 58: The New York Times reported on Wedn
Page 59 and 60: The talks mediated by Doha are the
Page 61 and 62: Aid workers and human rights activi
Page 63 and 64: "They have no way out of these swam

Vol. 8 Issue 7 - Public International Law & Policy Group

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?