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Crisis Averted Between The Ijaws and Itsekiris
Akpobibibo Onduku,Nigeria August 13, 2001

What would have been a resurgence of the ethnic crisis between the Warri Ijaws and the Itsekiris was averted in Warri, Niger Delta in Nigeria four nights ago...

It is noteworthy that there crisis between these two neighbouring tribes began barely some four years ago...Since then many people lost lives, properties worth millions of naira and several communities have been devastated due to the crisis.  more...

See also   A Peace Worker's Ordeal in the Niger Delta



Peasant Displacements & Our Disappearing Leaders
Juanita Arango, Colombia July 16, 2001
Details and Features Forthcoming

Peasant Displacements  There is an emergency situation in PEQUE, a small town in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia. The emergency is as a result of the massive displacement of peasants in the region. More than 5000 people have moved to the periphery of the city. Currently, these people need medications, food, clothes and all other things related with emergency situations.  more...

Our Disappearing Leaders   Since long ago, one of the most important strategies of violent actors has been the killing of Colombia's most important leaders... Last month an important indigenous community leader was kidnapped and disappeared by the paramilitaries.  more...

See also   A New Face for the Peace Process in Colombia

G8 Summit in Genoa - Violence Clouding the Real Issues
Samuella Michilini, Italy July 20, 2001

Genoa  Here, at the G8 summit, with a man dead, the most important thing seems the violence in the streets. The media are only covering the several violent acts that are occurring in Genoa. Many peaceful organizations have declared their will to stop their peaceful manifestations in order to not be associated with those who are attacking the "red zone". In Genoa, the real issues of the debt of economically poorer nations, globalization and the global economy risk being lost, as the violence in the streets consumes the lion's share of the media's attention.   more...

Update from Zagreb, Croatia.
Dominic Hipkins, Croatia

On June 4th, 2001 I saw numerous copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (my struggle) on sale during the city's book fair in the Central Flower Square. The tome, composed by the World War Two Nazi leader during his spell in prison in the 1920's, was openly on sale in at least 6 separate book- stands, priced at 150 Kuna (40 DM) and translated into Croatian.

Stand-by for an article in July for an in-depth look at how elements of the Croatian nationalist movement - who ruled the country for most of the last decade, before being ousted in 2000 - continue in their attempts to rehabilitate the Nazi-allied regime that was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Roma, Serbs and anti- fascist Croats.



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