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NATO's peacekeeping problem

Article Abstract:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's international peacekeeping forces do not all follow the same rules of operation, often facing restrictions. In Kosovo peacekeepers from many of the countries would not engage in riot control.

Afghanistan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Peacekeeping forces

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Philippine mutineers end siege of mall after political faceoff

Article Abstract:

Some 300 Philippine soldiers staged a short-lived mutiny to protest the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The soldiers occupied a major shopping mall in Manila before surrendering peacefully to government forces.

Philippines, Demonstrations and protests, Insurgency, Military aspects, Manila, Philippines, Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal-, Shopping malls, Mutineers

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A Specter is Haunting Bosnia

Article Abstract:

The memory of Marshal Tito is kept alive by nostalgic Bosnians. But the sad state of present day Bosnia-Herzegovina is a political legacy to the Yugoslavian dictator twenty years after his death.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Editorial, Statistical Data Included, Political activity, Column, Bosnia and Herzegovina, National liberation movements, Tito, Josip Broz

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