Word: guerrillas
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...JULY 15 3 A.M. In Agra the first talks between India and Pakistan for two years are just hours away. But in Kashmir, Indian troops surprise a guerrilla company at Sajawalli in Surankot, close to the Line of Control, the de facto border. According to the official Indian report, the rebels, whom it accuses of crossing from Pakistan, open fire immediately when challenged. The shooting rages through dawn and beyond, eight hours in all. The army later proudly displays the bodies of 18 "foreign mercenaries," whom it says were members of the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad groups...
...stone for a memorial to the 4,000-5,000 people who have "disappeared" since 1989?those arrested by Indian security forces and never seen again. The site is at Idgah, outside Srinagar, next to the Mazar-e-Shohda Muslim cemetery, where thousands of the conflict's dead, including guerrilla commanders, lie buried. The crowd is full of relatives of the vanished?the elderly, parents, widows, children?who live in a state of suspended bereavement. Gentle weeping builds to a crescendo of wailing that sweeps the crowd, enveloping veteran reporters on its sidelines. Roomie Khan, 5, Aadil Badyarie...
...Banda Aceh, a supposedly peaceful enclave in a region defined not by its wonderful coffee or the sparkling blue water off the northern coast - almost shocking after the prevailing brown of what passes for harbors and rivers elsewhere - but by atrocities that have piled up over two decades of guerrilla warfare. Collectively, the voices make "Indonesia" seem like a contrived fantasy - seriously, 17,000 islands as one nation? - not a country...
...parked a block distant. Now it's June's turn to do the surreptitious feeding (pictured above). "They've been here for centuries," mourns June, who was born a stone's throw from the square. "This is their home." Celebrity spoonbender Uri Geller has thrown his support behind the guerrilla feeders, and there are two shelters nearby for pigeons who aren't surviving the crackdown. One possible penalty for transgressors: being bound to one of the lions...
...PERU Berenson Verdict Three judges in Lima found New Yorker Lori Berenson guilty of collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and sentenced her to 20 years. The court found her innocent of active militancy in the guerrilla group and of helping to procure international financing, which would have carried a life sentence. Berenson was jailed for life by a secret military tribunal in 1996 on charges of treason, but was granted a retrial on lesser charges last year. She declared the judgment "unjust" and lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court...