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East Timor's tragedy was touched off when Suharto successor B.J. Habibie off-ered its people a referendum on whether they wanted to split from Indonesia. They voted yes, but Habibie wasn't in control of his own military. The men in uniform had spent two decades trying to get East Timorese to accept their place within Indonesia, and many felt betrayed. The carnage was their retaliation...
...thing that isn't being given a chance in Aceh is peace. In 1999 and 2000, a group called the Information Center for a Referendum in Aceh (sira) organized giant rallies calling on Jakarta to hold an East Timor-type referendum on independence for the province. sira was led by former student Muhammad Nazar, who was tried for sedition because of the rallies and given a 10-month jail sentence last month. "The violence in Aceh is increasing as part of a military and police effort to undermine the negotiating process," says Nazar, whose current residence is the Banda Aceh...
...Forging a coalition with the liberals certainly gives him a parliamentary majority, and the legal right to call a referendum on independence - which the liberals, who are even more strongly pro-independence than Djukanovic, urge him to do. But the pro-Yugoslavia parties have vowed to boycott a referendum, and judging by the latest election results, the turnout at such a referendum may not enough to achieve legitimacy for independence...
...pressing for immediate independence and making compromise with Belgrade difficult. On the other hand, he has to talk to Belgrade as well as to his domestic opposition, which proved far stronger than expected. Finding a balance is not going to be easy, and there's a good chance the referendum will be delayed until later this year...
...that the 1894 flag has passed referendum, supporters are trying to change state law to give the flag constitutional protection. "There are obviously shadows in our past," says John French, a leader of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who are conducting a petition drive for the constitutional remedy, "but we still don't want to erase our history...