Word: separatist
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...here for the duration. We'll be staying until the FBI leaves Jordan." The Idaho group had chosen Lewistown at the request of federal officials who ordered them to stay away from "Justus Township," the Freeman's 960-acre wheat farm. The FBI today also rejected white separatist Randy Weaver's offer to mediate an end to the standoff, saying he was incendiary and could attract hordes of media and militia members. FBI agents surrounded the compound March 25, when two Freemen leaders were arrested. Since then, three others have been taken into custody. One member of the group, Richard...
...Soviet days, simply declared himself a winner. His troops, he claimed at a news conference in the Kremlin, killed 153 Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will hit more rebel strongholds "to put an end to terrorism on Russian soil...
More than three years after federal law enforcement officers were involved in a deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at his mountaintop home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, a Senate committee released a report into the incident and sharply criticized all of the agencies that were involved. "While Randy Weaver made mistakes," read the report. "So did every federal law enforcement agency involved in the Ruby Ridge incident." In addition to the FBI, the committee scored the U.S. Marshals Service and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The report singled out FBI Director Louis Freeh, who took office...
...heroic stand against Russian ground and air forces, Dudayev lost the battle for the capital, Grozny, in February, along with his heavy weapons and access to the country's oil refineries. Expert analysts estimate that Dudayev's hard-core forces may be down to around 2,000. Nonetheless, his separatist government managed to hold a full-fledged congress two months ago in the sleepy village of Roshni-Chu, an hour's drive south from Grozny...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...