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ETA DECLARES AN END TO ITS ARMED CAMPAIGN
ETA has declared an end to the fifty year armed campaign it has waged for an independent Basque state. In a statement, the group defended its long campaign, but suggested that the group might now be ready to turn to the political process to pursue its aim of an independent Basque state. The announcement raises hopes of an eventual peaceful settlement inspired by the power-sharing resolution achieved in Northern Ireland. However, a notable lack of clarity about the nature of ETA’s ceasefire, coupled with a number of previous “false dawns”, meant there was only a muted welcome from Spain's wider political arena, with the Basque regional government interior minister calling the statement “insufficient”. On two previous occasions ETA has announced it was calling off its campaign only to abandon the decision. There have been up to ten declarations of “temporary” ceasefire since 1981 alone.
TERROR NETWORK CHARGED IN BAHRAIN
On 04 September 2010, Bahrain charged twenty-three nationals with forming a "terror network" aimed at toppling Bahrain's monarchy and government, through “violent protests and acts of sabotage.” The suspects allegedly held secret meetings in Bahrain and abroad in order "to change the political regime through illegal means" and "undermine national security." The government identified ten suspects, including eight Shiite opposition leaders, prominent Shiite Muslim clerics and human rights activists. Most of the suspects are members of Haq, or the Movement of Liberties and Democracy, a splinter group of the main Shiite political organisation, the Islamic National Accord Association INAA. Two members, known as Moqdad and Singace, had previously been charged on similar grounds in 2008 but were released from prison in April 2009 in a royal pardon for 178 people detained on security charges. The archipelago state was plagued in the 1990s by a wave of Shiite-led unrest which has abated since the authorities launched steps to convert the Gulf emirate into a constitutional monarchy.
BOMB EXPLODES IN TAJIK NIGHTCLUB
On 06 September 2010, five people were wounded after a bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe. The device was reportedly placed beneath a table in the nightclub, and is being linked to a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan's second-largest city Khujand on 03 September 2010, in which two police officers were killed and twenty-five were injured. The attack is the first known suicide bombing in five years and dealt a blow to the government of the former Soviet republic, where poverty pushes youths toward radical Islam and political rivalries still fester more than a decade after a civil war. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which aims to establish Islamic rule in Central Asia, has been blamed by the government for the suicide bombing, however critics of the government claim Islamists are being blamed for attacks in order to clamp down on human rights in the country.
ATTACK ON POLICE STATION IN LAWLESS NORTH WEST PAKISTAN
A police station in the north-western Pakistani town of Lakki Marwat was subject to a suicide car bomb on 06 September 2010, which killed nineteen people and could mark a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda and the Taliban. Militants have frequently carried out attacks in the town near Pakistan's lawless tribal areas and in March 2010, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball game killing nearly 100 people. The recent bombings ended a relative lull in militant violence over the past month, which has seen the worst flooding in Pakistan's history, and have added to pressure on a government struggling to cope with the crisis.
AT LEAST THIRTY-EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN GUATEMALA
Guatemalan authorities say at least thirty-eight people have been killed in landslides caused by weeks of heavy rains. In the worst incident, a hillside collapsed on a crowd of volunteers as they tried to dig out a bus buried by a previous mudslide. At least twenty bodies have been recovered, but the search for around forty people still missing has been suspended for fear of further landslides. More than 100km of the Inter-American highway is closed to all traffic, and many other roads have been blocked, with several bridges destroyed by floods. Weeks of heavy rain have saturated Guatemala's mountainous terrain, causing hillsides to collapse suddenly and without warning.
KIDNAPPED JAPANESE JOURNALIST FREED IN AFGHANISTAN
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