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• INDONESIA-MILITARY Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- The struggle between Indonesia's president and his former military chief has highlighted the profound changes that have taken place in Indonesian institutions since President Suharto was forced out nearly two years ago.
• INDONESIA-COUP Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- The tussle between Indonesian President Abdrurrahman Wahid and the country's former top general continues. However fears that the struggle between the two men will lead to a military coup appear to have abated.

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• 11 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 11 Feb 2000
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Russian military officials say they will soon launch what they call a "final strike" against Chechen fighters. Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev says up to 50 thousand ground troops will move into the southern mountains to attack rebels there.
• ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS VALERY L. MANILOV - Colonel General, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - 11.02.2000 -- In the past week, the federal Grouping of forces carried on the success attained by the liberation of Grozny from the bandit groups. The flat part of Chechnya is now completely free of the bandit groups. The scattered bandit groups took refuge in the mountain regions. They have some 7,000 men, roughly a half of them mercenaries and criminals, who have nothing to lose and hence would fight to the bitter end. As for the detonation bombs, their use against such targets as caves, tunnels and mountain fissures, meaning closed areas, is highly effective. If a bomb hits the target, it destroys everything there. Conventions or the rules of warfare do not prohibit the use of such munitions. Since August 2, 1999, the Defence Ministry and the armed forces lost 970 in dead, the Interior Ministry troops and agencies lost 488 in dead, which adds up to 1,458. The armed forces lost 2,706 in wounded, and the Interior Ministry, 1,789, which adds up to 4,495.
• CHECHEN REFUGEES Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- As the war in Chechnya drags on, refugees who fled to neighboring Ingushetia say Russia has quietly started cutting back services to camps that are home to tens of thousands of displaced people.
• SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS Russia@America 11.02.2000 -- Having no illusions about what is in store for them in the event of a total defeat, the irreconcilable terrorists have sought to enlist support coming from foreign organisations. What is meant are non-governmental "charity funds" that, which in fact, belong to radical Islamists from the international extremist organisations "Hamas", "Hezbollah", "Al-Jihad" and "Al-Islami".
• CONGO VIOLENCE Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Ethnic Hema own most of the large cattle ranches along Lake Albert. They want to expand the boundaries of those ranches and have run into ethnic Lendu farmers who are unwilling to give up their land. Church officials say seven months of attacks and counter-attacks have killed at least five thousand people.
• CONGO / PEACEKEEPING Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Questions and criticisms are being raised about the U-S peacekeeping proposal - including whether 5- thousand troops and 500-monitors would be enough to do the job. Some African diplomats at the United Nations say the number is too small. For example, Rwanda's U-N Ambassador, Joseph Mutaboba, calls the number meaningless for a country the size of Congo.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Hezbollah guerrillas launched the attack on the Beaufort Castle, a Crusader-era mountaintop military base with a commanding view of southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Britain has suspended Northern Ireland's new government only 72 days after giving it power to deal with local.
• CROATIA / TRIBUNAL RELATIONS Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- While Mr. Tudjman increasingly refused to cooperate with the War Crimes Tribunal, President-elect Mesic not only says he agrees with the Tribunal's work, but he has personally supported it in the past - as a witness.
• CAMBODIA / HUN SEN Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will meet United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss salvaging a joint-war crimes tribunal for leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.
• BURUNDI CAMPS Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- The United Nations special representative on internally displaced persons, Francis Deng, says the so-called regroupment camps in Burundi are not acceptable.
• AFRICA'S WIDE WAR Voice of America 11 February 2000 -- The U-S Defense Department is working with the United Nations to set up a peacekeeping group for the war-torn Congo, where several nations are now engaged in a bewildering conflict that has no clear reasons or solutions.

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