Another world is possible / CHRONICLE 2001

.WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE MAJORITY WORLD

JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC
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AFGHANISTAN Eight aid workers are held in Kabul, accused of secretly attempting to spread Christianity.

THE HAGUE Former Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic is convicted of genocide and sentenced to 46 years for overseeing the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.

NORTH KOREA President Kim Jong-Il forms an alliance with President Putin of Russia against the US plans to continue with its ‘missile defence’ programme.

KASHMIR 13 Hindu shepherds are shot dead by Muslim guerrillas in the remote Doda region.

COLOMBIA Police arrest three alleged Provisional IRA members travelling on false passports.

ANGOLA 152 people die in an attack on a passenger train 144 kilometres south of Luanda. The UNITA rebel movement claims responsibility for the attack, saying the train was carrying munitions and therefore a legitimate target.

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IRAQ US and British bombers carry out the most extensive air strikes since February.

BRAZIL Jorge Amado, the Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 88.

INDIA A 16-year-old Brahmin boy and a lower caste 18-year-old girl who fell in love are hanged from a rooftop for showing disrespect to the caste system. Their parents supported the action.

UKRAINE At least 36 miners are killed and 44 injured in a explosion at the Zasiadka complex near Donetsk.

PAKISTAN Medical lecturer Younus Shaikh is sentenced to death for blasphemy after students reported remarks he made about Muhammad.

AUSTRALIA Environmentalists condemn moves to begin oil exploration 50 kilometres east of the Great Barrier Reef.

ALGERIA 100,000 take part in peaceful demonstrations over the Government’s treatment of the Berbers.

TAJIKISTAN The Red Cross reports that a million people are in urgent need of food aid after a series of crop failures. It says children are digging in the ground for grain hoarded by rats.

INDIA Indian MPs are outraged by a decision to allow US companies to patent three strains of Basmati rice. The US patent and trademark office granted patents to Ricetec of Texas for crossbreeds with American long-grain rice named ‘Texmati’, ‘Jasmati’ and ‘Kasmati’.