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Tragically, most of these slaughters are only visible in retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...
MEANWHILE Mommy's Boy While the name for the present decade is still in doubt, Turkmenistan's national assembly has cleared up the name for 2003: "The year of the Turkmen heroine Gurbansoltan edzhe, the mother of the first and eternal President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Turkmenbashi." The decision follows the renaming of April - now "Mother" - after the President's mom, who died when he was eight...
...They were, one commentator said, "voting under fire." When the gunmen struck in the early afternoon, barely 30% of the voters had turned out. Worried that a low turnout might help the challenger, Sharon summoned a press conference and urged party members: "Go and vote, go and vote!" TURKMENISTAN Death Plot Foiled An apparent assassination attempt was made on Turkmenistan President Saparmurad Niyazov as he drove in the capital, Ashgabat. According to the President's spokesman, Serdar Durdyev, gunmen opened fire from two minibuses, a sedan and several nearby buildings. The President escaped unhurt, but three of the alleged attackers...
...TURKMENISTAN A Slice of the Pie A long-awaited summit on dividing the oil-rich Caspian Sea between its five surrounding states ended in complete disarray. The Caspian's status is still governed by a 1940 agreement between the U.S.S.R. and Iran, and the summit was meant to end a decade of bitter squabbling. But the meeting failed to adopt even a planned declaration after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami walked out and Turkmenistan accused Azerbaijan of intransigence over a disputed oil field. "More problems emerged than expected," admitted Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
Noting that the conflict that came to a head in Paris last June - when CITES halted the legal caviar trade by Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in a dispute over conservation measures - is not over, Wijnstekers says that "greater efforts are needed to combat illegal fishing and corruption." While Iran was not subject to the ban because it had a functioning national system, it has nevertheless joined the regional effort...