Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prevention of Danger law was rescinded because military leaders likely realized that wielding the big stick could provoke rather than prevent danger in the diverse and often fractious 13,000-island archipelago. "Secessionist rumblings are stretching the army pretty thin, and they may have come to the view that claiming martial law powers at this point was a mistake," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Cracking down too hard right now may actually trigger more secessionist activity, and the Indonesian military has a very sophisticated approach to dealing with these things. It?s also not a monolith ? it's generals...
...letting go of East Timor. Those range from the former dictator Suharto and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri to the country's all-powerful military. The military has extensive economic interests in East Timor, and the officer corps fears that allowing the territory to break away will only encourage secessionist movements across the 13,000 ethnically diverse islands that make up Indonesia...
...Jakarta as a key anticommunist ally in the region ? and killed as much as one third of its population in 24 years of trying to subdue East Timor. International pressure forced Jakarta to agree to the independence referendum, but the government fears that losing East Timor would simply spur secessionist movements inside Indonesia ? which, after all, is an archipelago of diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic identities united only by the fact that they were once all colonized by the Dutch. With anti-independence militias appearing to be preparing to launch a bloodbath, the people of East Timor may again...
...deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number of SU-30 jet fighters and other military hardware to China. Although border disputes had fueled their feud during the 1960s, both countries also now share an interest in resolving those and developing a common approach to Islamic secessionist challenges. Most important, though, Moscow and Beijing share an intense resentment at being relegated by Washington to the role of character actors on the international stage. Where Mao?s doctrine of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" had once led China into an alliance with Washington, today...
...authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal, yet ineffective, response to the uprising in neighboring Chechnya five years ago. But Yeltsin has never had any problem signing off on a little...