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26 May 2006 Military News

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  • Russia: Beslan Hostage Taker Receives Life Sentence REF/RL 26 May 2006 -- In an emotional climax to the yearlong trial of the only known survivor among the perpetrators of the September 2004 Beslan hostage crisis, Nurpashi Kulayev was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in the bloody siege that took place in September 2004 at a school in North Ossetia.
  • Sole Surviving Beslan School Attacker Receives Life Sentence VOA 26 May 2006 -- The only surviving attacker of a school in southern Russia has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a school siege that led to the deaths of more than 300 people almost two years ago
  • Beslan terrorist gets life sentence RIA Novosti 26 May 2006 -- North Ossetia's Supreme Court Friday sentenced to life imprisonment the sole surviving gunman of those who took hundreds hostage in a bloody siege at a school in south Russia in September 2004.

  • DRC: Ugandan rebels dislodged, but civilians not returning home IRIN 26 May 2006 -- An operation launched in December 2005 by Democratic Republic of Congo troops against Ugandan rebels in the northeast of DRC's North Kivu Province displaced tens of thousands of people who now say that if they were to return home they would face greater persecution by their own army than by the rebels.
  • New Delhi, Assam tribal leaders hold peace talks IRNA 26 May 2006 -- Indian authorities and leaders of a tribal separatist group in the northeastern state of Assam are meeting for peace talks Saturday aimed at ending two decades of violent insurgency in the region.
  • India, Pakistan conclude dialogue on Sir Creek issue IRNA 26 May 2006 -- Indian and Pakistani officials concluded talks on their boundary dispute over the Sir Creek Friday even as the two neighbors push forward a slow moving peace process aimed at ending nearly six decades of hostility.
  • UN peacekeepers back Congolese soldiers in drive to disarm irregulars UN News Centre 26 May 2006 -- In the run-up to the elections scheduled for 30 July in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), United Nations peacekeepers have been backing the national armed forces as they have fought to expel irregular armed groups from Ituri district and the two Kivu provinces over the past week, the UN mission there said.
  • Hamas Withdraws Gaza Security Force to Ease Tensions VOA 26 May 2006 -- The Islamic militant group, Hamas, which took control of the Palestinian Authority eight weeks ago, is backing down from an escalating confrontation with the rival and more moderate Fatah movement.
  • UNHCR Alarmed at Sudanese Rebel Infiltration in Refugee Camps VOA 26 May 2006 -- The U.N. refugee agency says it is very disturbed by reports of armed Sudanese rebels inside and near some refugee camps in eastern Chad
  • Hamas Militia Withdraws From Gaza VOA 26 May 2006 -- The governing Palestinian group Hamas says it has withdrawn its militia from the streets of the Gaza Strip to avoid further bloody clashes with the rival Fatah faction.
  • Australian Peacekeepers Patrol Deserted Streets of East Timor Capital VOA 26 May 2006 -- Australian peacekeepers are patrolling the deserted streets of the East Timor capital, following days of violence between rebel soldiers and the nation's armed forces that have left at least 15 people dead.
  • Nepal Government, Rebels to Begin Peace Talks VOA 26 May 2006 -- Nepalese officials have met with leaders of the country's communist rebel movement for the first peace talks in three years
  • NEPAL: Government and rebels start peace talks IRIN 26 May 2006 -- Nepal’s new government and Maoist insurgents, who have been waging a 10-year war against the state, are set to begin much anticipated peace talks on Friday afternoon in the capital, Kathmandu, according to senior government officials.
  • SOMALIA: Tentative calm reported in Mogadishu after bloody battle IRIN 26 May 2006 -- Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, was quiet but tense on Friday, following two days of heavy fighting between militia allied to the city's Islamic courts and those loyal to a group of faction leaders, residents said.
  • SUDAN: Government allows UN to assess proposed Darfur mission IRIN 26 May 2006 -- A joint United Nations-African Union assessment team will head to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region to determine how to strengthen the current AU mission in Sudan (AMIS) and to lay the groundwork for a possible transition to a UN peacekeeping force, a UN diplomat said.
  • GREAT LAKES: US envoy in talks over "negative forces" IRIN 26 May 2006 -- US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Don Yamamoto began talks on Friday with senior officials from Africa's Great Lakes region on plans to arrest and extradite leaders of "negative forces" operating in the troubled region.
  • DRC: South African institute discounts "coup plot" theory following arrests IRIN 26 May 2006 -- The South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has ruled out chances that the men arrested and identified as foreign mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were plotting a coup or planning to destabilise the country ahead of 30 July elections.
  • Georgia: Abkhazia Talks Moving Out Of Deadlock REF/RL 26 May 2006 -- Georgia and Abkhazia have in recent days exchanged proposals aimed at bringing peace in a conflict that has lingered unresolved since 1992.

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