CURRENT WARS
| Current wars:
more than a 1000 deaths per year |
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| INTER
STATES WARS |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
Kashmir /
India /
Pakistan |
1947-65-71- Talks since1989-
Lahore declaration 99 |
Hindus vs Moslem/Azaadi Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front
(JKLF) Herzb-ul-Mujahiddin Harkat-Ul-Ansar |
Territorial and Independance |
65,000 deaths (Kashmiris) |
| Ethiopia/Eritrea |
1998-now |
Eritrea vs Ethiopia |
Border dispute, sea access
border line drawn by Italy |
More than 50,000 |
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| EXTRA
STATES WARS |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Chechnya/Russia |
1994-1996-
1999-now |
Wahabi (Sufi) Islamic movement vs Russia |
Issues: Oil, Independance, Religion |
war 94-96:80,000
45,000 Chechens trapped in Grosny
212 Russian killed by bombs in Moscow
Deads: over a 1000 ? |
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INTRA
STATES WARS
with foreign intervention |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Colombia |
1964-Now |
Government: Conservative and Liberal parties and militias
& 2,000 US army (drug war) vs Fuerzas Armadas Revolutionarias
deColombia (FARC) Ejercito de Liberation National (ELN)Union
Patrica Party (UP) Popular Army of Liberation (EPL) |
Ressources, democracy, privileges, drugs
Demands of guerillas: Call for agrarian reform
Democratization, protection of natural ressources
from multi-national corporations |
over 45,000
1- 99 to Sept.99:1,299 |
| Democratic Congo |
8/99 |
7 Countries: Congo, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Zambia,
Mozambic Laurent Desiree Kabila and Congo Armed Forces
(FAC)
vs Alliance of the Democtratic Forces of Congo (AFDL)
also 2 ethnicities: Balendus vs Wahimas |
1.5 billion of dollars in US arms and military training
during the cold war (50-89) power and control of ressources
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8,000 since last August(BBC) |
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| INTRA
STATES WARS |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Sudan |
1983-now |
the Moslem of the north vs the native African Christian
and Animists in the south, In Soudan 300 languages, 500
tribes. Govt.of Omar Hassan Ahmad el Bechir, National
Islamic Front vs Popular Army for the liberation of Sudan(APLS)
Force Alliance of Sudan (FAS) |
oil, water, land, religion, government power |
over 1 Million and half deaths, 4.5 mllion displaced
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| Congo |
1993- |
Northern vs Southern |
Ethnicity/2 political factions |
2,000-3000 |
| Angola |
1960-1997 |
Government vs UNITA |
ethnicity &economic |
350,000 |
| Somalia |
1982- |
Rival clans for govt. control |
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30,000 |
| Algeria |
1991- now |
Government versus Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) & Armed
Islamic Group (GIA) |
control of power and resources |
75,000 people |
Afghanistan
civil war |
late 1970- |
Government. vs Taliban and other factions: Herz-i.Islami
Herz.i.Wahdat Jumbish.i.Milli.yeIslami National Islami
Movement led by Dastam |
Govt. control, poverty, |
over 1 Million |
| Sri-Lanka ("Vani") |
1978- |
Governmentof President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
vs Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) |
independent North and South |
50,000; |
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| INTERMEDIATE
ARMED CONFLICTS |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
Liban (Lebanon)
/ Israel |
3/14/1978- |
Libanese resistance forces:Hezbollah, Amal Lebanese
Shi'i party and militias vs Israeli Defence Forces(IDF)
South Libanon Army(SLA) |
land, economy, security |
thousands |
Turkey/Northern
Iraq/Iran |
1961- |
Turkish govt.versus Kurdish factions Kurdish Workers's
Party (PKK) |
self determination, justice, equality |
over 120,000 |
| Ethiopia |
1974-1988 1989-1994 |
Govt of Prime minister Meles Zenavi vs Oromo Liberation
Front (FLO) also inter ethnic battles between Gedeo and
Oromo-Gugi |
Democracy, poverty |
over 3,000 death (A I) |
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| MINOR
ARMED CONFLICTS |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Mexico /Chiapas |
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Government versus Zapatistas/Mayan Indians |
land/poverty |
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| USA vs poor people |
|
mostly African American shooting each others and others
inner cities |
poverty, alienation, arms proliferation |
9,360 people killed by hand guns in 1998 |
| Myanmar/Burma |
1984-now |
in the East Karen Separatists, Moslems &Military |
Political rights |
over 9,000 people |
| Peru |
1981-94- |
Shinning Path vs govert. |
land reforms, privileges, poverty |
25,000 |
| Chad |
1965-88 |
Govt. versus Muslim separatists Moslem North /vs Christian,
Anemist South |
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15,000>
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| Uganda |
1980- |
Lord's Resistance Army vs Governm Army Governm vs Acholi,
Langi tribes |
Political control |
over 100,000 |
| Nigeria/Cameron |
1994-96 |
Muslim fundamentalist vs Christians and non fundamentalist
Muslims |
control of resources |
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Indonesia/Western
Borneo |
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Settler vs Native Moslem vs Christian |
Land |
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| South China Seas |
98-99 |
Chinese vs Philippines |
oil, land |
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| Kenya |
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Ethnic strife |
0ver a hundred killed there |
| India /South East |
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Maxalites |
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| Pakistan |
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Clashes/Mohajirs |
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| China/North West/Sinkiang |
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Uighurs people/ Government |
independance, chinese migration; |
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India/Tripura:
North East |
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Native vs Bangali immigrant |
independance, autonomie for Tripura |
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Central African
Republic |
January 99 |
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Army mutinee killed 32 people |
Comoro Islands(Fr.)
Anjouan /Moheli
invasion of Anjouan |
98-99 |
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Land |
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| Western Eritrea |
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Eritrean Liberation forces supported by Soudan |
small rebellion |
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| Armenia-Azerbaijan |
1988-1994 |
Armenia (Christian)vs Azerbajan(Moslem) |
control of Nagorno-Karabath territory |
30,000 |
| Egypt
| 1992-1994 |
Islamic fundamentalists vs Government |
Government control |
100's |
| Cambodia |
1979-97 |
Kmer Rouge vs Royalists |
Party Democratic of Kampchuavs Coalition Government |
25,000 vietnameses soldiers |
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| Peace
process |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Israel/Palestine |
1947-now |
Israeli government vs Palestine national movements:
PLO, Hammas |
Security, land, water, secular vs religious state |
Madrid, Oslo, Wye agreements
125,000 |
| Sierra Leone |
Feb 98-99 |
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Government and private
miliitas & West Africain forces(ECOMOG) vs Revolutionary
United Front(RUF) Armed force Revolutionary Council(AFRC) |
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50,000 deaths, 570,000 refugiees |
| Cyprus / Turkey /Greece |
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no agreement yet Peace treaty |
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| Basque |
1970-"total indefinite truce" |
Basque Sparatist Movement(ETA) vs French and Spanish
Govt. |
Self determination and independance |
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Senegal/ Southern area:
Casamance region |
Independance |
Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) |
Independance; |
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| Peace
agreements |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Northern Ireland vs U.K. |
1969-1998 Good Friday Agreement |
Irish Republican Army, UVF,UFF vs Bristish government
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Land, religion and class |
more than 3,250 since 69 |
Indonesia versus
East Timor |
1974-now |
Revolutionary Front For an Independant Timor Fretilin
vs Governement of Indonesia |
independance, territory |
100,000 |
| Bosnia |
Bosnia vs Serbia |
land, ressources,ethnicity |
Dayton Agreement |
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| Bangladesh |
1971- |
Government vs Hill Tribes Chittagong Hill Tracts People
Association/Shanti Bahani (Peace Force) |
Bengali colonisation of Chakmalands |
3,000 |
| Papua/New Guinea |
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Bougainville |
25,000 deaths |
| South Africa |
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truth and reconciliation |
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| Guatemala |
1970-1994 |
Governm vs Mayan Indians |
indigenous rights |
400,000 |
| Georgia |
1992-1995 |
Republic of Abkhazia vs South Ossetia/ Government of
Georgia |
relation with Russia,territory |
2,500 |
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| Wars
per Embargos |
| Country |
Time Period |
Parties Involved |
Issues |
Number Killed |
| Cuba |
Iraq/killed over 1milion people |
Libya |
Iran |
Serbia |
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