Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indian Airlines hijacking drama may have ended peacefully, but that won?t help the Taliban?s PR efforts to distance itself from terrorism. The hijackers released their 155 captives in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday after India agreed to hand over three high-profile Kashmiri separatist prisoners. New Delhi?s decision to reverse its no-concessions-to-terrorism policy reflected mounting domestic pressure to resolve the standoff at the same time as Afghanistan?s Taliban rulers tied India?s hands. "There were threats of self-immolation by relatives of the hostages in India and it became very difficult for the government...
...that rules out a commando raid to take out the hijackers," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "That may build up domestic pressure in India to release the Maulana in order to save the hostages." The hijackers have reduced their demands to one: The release of 36 Kashmiri separatist militants from Indian prisons, most notably the Pakistani cleric Maulana Masood Azhar...
...Russian field commander Tuesday offered a $1 million bounty on the head of the Islamic separatist guerrilla commander Shamil Basayev, but that may be simply posturing. "Correspondents manage to interview Basayev without much trouble, and he?s not exactly hiding out," says Meier. "It would require a stretch of the imagination to believe that the Russian special forces don?t know where he is." Even more bizarre, perhaps, is the mounting speculation that President Boris Yeltsin is unhappy with the spectacular rise in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?s popularity prompted by the Chechnya operation. "Even though the Kremlin?s game...
...northern third of the breakaway republic along the east-west line of the River Terek - a fact borne out by reports of fierce fighting from villages deep inside Chechnya. And that suggests that Moscow is trying to partition the territory, taking control of its northern plains and forcing separatist forces back into the mountainous south...
...With potentially critical problems ranging from infrastructure and corruption to separatist movements and religious activities outside of its control, the government is constantly trying to repair parts of the system that are breaking down," says Dowell. "But it's an extremely difficult system to maintain...