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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 27. 2004 / Timeline September 27, 2004

26. September 2004, 28. September 2004

09/27/2004
Keep Space for Peace Local Action at Fylindales
www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/reports/fdales_04.htm)
About 3 or 4 hundred people gathered on the North Yorkshire Moors at the start of 'Keep Space for Peace Week' in the UK. Although the weather forecast had been bad (which probably kept many people away) we actually had some sunshine and blue skies - although it was (as usual) a bit breezy at times. We were assembling in the usual place for a Fylingdales demonstration - about 1/2 a mile down the road from the base entrance in a side track off the main road near the road bridge by Eller Beck.

09/27/2004
Publishers sue government over limits on editing
On 27 September 2004, several publishers' and authors' organizations sued the U.S. government over procedures currently in place relating to governmental regulation of articles produced by scholars in embargoed countries.
The suit, filed by the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, the Association of American University Presses, the PEN American Center, and Arcade Publishing focuses on recent actions of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which enforces U.S. trade embargoes. The plaintiffs assert that OFAC is unduly restricting works by authors who live and work in embargoed countries and that the agencys interpretation of law violates the First Amendment and other acts of Congress. (For the complaint and some twenty-five other relevant documents, tap into: http://www.aaupnet.org/ofac/.)

09/27/2004
Government to disarm "warriors" in the northeast Uganda
The Ugandan government is to resume disarming lawless "warriors" in the northeastern Karamoja region, which borders Kenya and Sudan, saying easy availability of weapons had claimed hundreds of lives in tribal clashes and encouraged insecurity.
Maj Shaban Bantariza, spokesman for the Uganda People's Defence Forces, told IRIN on Sunday that disarmament committees were being formed at district and sub-county levels throughout the region to revive an exercise that started in December 2002, but went into limbo as the government shifted its attention to fighting the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north.
An estimated 40,000 illegal guns are in the hands of pastoralists in the Karamoja region, according to the army. "They are forming the disarmament committees which will include district officials and other leaders," Bantariza said. "Voluntary disarmament will be embarked on first in October, but we shall resort to forceful disarmament after the period for voluntary disarmament elapses."
Previously, the pastoralists were given one month to disarm. But after only a few thousand guns were turned in, the army resorted to forceful disarmament. Human rights groups however criticised army "high-handedness" while collecting the guns.
"The last operation managed to recover about 11,000 guns," Bantariza said.
Karamoja region, situated some 400 km northeast of the capital, Kampala, is made up of three districts - Kotido, Moroto and Nakapiripiriti. It lies at the centre of an area where small arms are traded with the Turkana people of Kenya and with other tribes in southern Sudan, the scene of a long-running civil war, writes IRIN.

09/27/2004

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