FROM INDIA...

Assam rebel chief's 'abducted' son is freedBy Subir Bhaumik
27 December 2010
BBC News, Calcutta
By Subir Bhaumik

Mr Barua has opposed talks with India An Indian separatist group says the son of its military wing chief, who was kidnapped in Bangladesh, has now been released. Paresh Barua, senior United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) leader, alleged last week that his teenaged son Arindam Barua had been abducted. The kidnappers were putting pressure on him to negotiate with India, he said. From, and more at...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12081940

FROM COLOMBIA...

Colombia army gives Farc rebels early Christmas gift
BBC WORLD NEWS
17 December 2010 at 21:11 ET

The Colombian army says it has installed a giant Christmas tree in Farc rebel territory, to encourage guerrilla fighters to demobilize.... From and more at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12025086

THE CONFLICT MONITOR:
As pathetic and tasteless. and as against the spirit of Christmas at one can be...

FROM COLOMBIA...

US court indicts Dutch Farc rebel Tanja Nijmeijer
BBC WORLD NEWS
14 December 2010 Last updated at 19:32 ET

A US court has indicted a Dutch member of the Colombian Farc rebel group on kidnapping charges.
In an interview for Radio Netherlands recorded in August 2010, she said she would fight until victory or death. She also warned the Colombian authorities that if they tried to rescue her she would "meet them with machine guns, mines and mortars". "I am proud to be a guerrilla and to be able to work together with the Colombian people and the other guerrillas, to take power and proclaim the revolution," she told Colombian journalist Jorge Enrique Botero in Spanish during the interview in the jungle. From and more at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11996770

FROM PALESTINE...

Hamas holds massive Gaza rally

Source:

Al Jazeera and agencies

14 Dec 2010 17:33 GMT

Resistance group throws 23rd anniversary rally, as tight Israeli siege makes Gaza's Hamas rulers increasingly unpopular. From and more at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/20101214135412759764.html

FROM NIGERIA...

WikiLeaks exposes Shell's infiltration of Nigeria's government
by the DEUTSCHE WELLE
Africa 13.12.2010
Author: Nick Amies, Editor: Rob Mudge

The recent WikiLeaks revelations have exposed the high level of influence, infiltration and intelligence-gathering that global oil companies have in resource-rich nations in Africa, specifically Shell's role in Nigeria. More and from ...

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6322658,00.html

FROM CAMBODIA

 Perpetrator's perspective: Befriending the Khmer Rouge
11 December 2010 Last updated at 20:48 ET

Cambodian journalist and film-maker Theh Sambath lost most of his family under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. He explains how his search for the truth led him to form an unlikely bond with one of the most loathed men in his country - Nuon Chea, number two within the Khmer Rouge regime. More from and by the BBC NEWS at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11968144

FROM THE WWW FRONT

A global electronic insurgency is shaping up.

Operation:Payback broadens to “Operation Avenge Assange”
on 12/6/10 by Sean-Paul Correll

The organizers behind the anonymous group responsible for Operation:Payback are in the midst of refocusing their campaign to assist WikiLeaks in their quest to release classified government documents. more at PANDALABS BLOG AT:

http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/operationpayback-broadens-to-operation-avenge-assange/

for Anonymous Manifesto at:

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