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• INDONESIA / MILITARY Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- The Indonesian military has announced a reshuffle of 47 senior officers, just two weeks after President Abdurrahman Wahid won a power-struggle with one of the country's most influential generals.

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• 28 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 28 Feb 2000
• Text: OSCE Welcomes Putin Appointment 28 February 2000 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, chairperson in office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), welcomed Russia's February 17 announcement that Acting President Vladimir Putin had appointed Vladimir Kalamanov to be his representative for human rights in Chechnya.
• RFE/RL on Return Home of Russian Reporter Andrei Babitsky 28 February 2000 -- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) war correspondent Andrei Babitsky has been brought to Moscow and released on his own recognizance on condition he remain in Moscow.
• RUSSIA / BABITSKY Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- A Russian journalist arrested after filing reports critical of the war in Chechnya has reportedly been flown from Dagestan to Moscow after beginning a hunger strike.

• YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- Four Bosnian Serbs accused of murder, torture and persecution went on trial today/Monday at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
• Balkans Unstable Despite International Help, UN Envoy Reports By Judy Aita Washington File 28 February 2000 -- Calling the situation in the Balkans "the most complex and the most challenging operation" the United Nations has ever undertaken, the UN special envoy to the region said February 27 that the international community has not managed to bring stability to the region but the UN must continue to search for peace in the region, especially Kosovo.
• U-N BALKANS SUMMARY Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- The United Nations Special Representative for the Balkans, Carl Bildt, said today (Monday) that the search for peace and stability in the region is complicated by the fact that the leaders of Serbia are indicted war criminals.

• SUDAN REBELS / ANALYSIS Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- Aid agencies feeding more than two-million people in southern Sudan are split over rebel demands that they pay taxes. Sudanese rebels want to levy a security fee for movement within rebel-held territory.
• TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- Turkey's interior ministry has reinstated three Kurdish mayors who had been removed from office for alleged links with Kurdish separatists.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 28 February 2000 -- Britain's top official for Northern Ireland has met with Unionist and Republican leaders in an attempt to revive the peace process. The effort follows suspension of Northern Ireland's home rule assembly.

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