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AZERBAIJAN OPPOSITION PREPARES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
By Gulnara Ismailova is a freelance journalist based in Baku, Azerbaijan (11/7/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A few days ago, the leader of the “Musavat” opposition party Isa Gambar called all opposition powers to cooperate and put forward a common candidate for the next presidential elections that should take place in 2003.
Isa Gambar’s proposal consist of four points. First, it is necessary to hold a summit of party leaders in the near future, to discuss the existing public and political situation in the country, and the duties of the opposition.
A WORSENING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN
By Alexei Igushev (11/7/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
“About six million of the Afghan population completely or partly depend on humanitarian assistance from abroad”, Mr. Kenzo Oshima, the UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated at a press conference in Dushanbe on 27 October, - “Three million of the most vulnerable people are located in the northern provinces of the country. In the near future, this figure can reach 7,5 million”.
GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT CRISIS
By Johanna Petersson, a visiting researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International (11/7/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze dismissed his entire government on Thursday November 1st. This followed a turbulent week as the people of Tbilisi took to the streets and demonstrated, initially against what they saw as a breech of the principle of free speech after the ministry of state security (Georgia’ s post-Soviet version of the KGB) attempted a raid on the independent and hugely popular TV station Rustavi 2. However, the demonstrations soon turned into a protest against Shevardnadze and the current regime.
BURYING SEEDS FOR VIOLENCE-XINJIANG
By Ruth Ingram (11/21/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
China’s "war on terrorism" at home could be threatening to bury "seeds for violence" according to an exiled Uyghur in America. The stepped-up "strike hard" campaign against what is termed fundamentalism and separatism in China’s Northwest since September 11th has left at least three Uyghurs executed, three on suspended death row, and hundreds more detained and under suspicion.
While Uyghurs have been further grieved and frustrated, China could be storing up trouble for itself, claims Huji Tuerdi, Uyghur human rights campaigner and chairman of the Uyghur American Association.
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