Sri Lanka 1996
Yearbook 1996 Sri Lanka. An end to the war with the Tamil guerrillas seemed distant in 1996. The year began with a terrible blast attack in central Colombo. At least…
Yearbook 1996 Sri Lanka. An end to the war with the Tamil guerrillas seemed distant in 1996. The year began with a terrible blast attack in central Colombo. At least…
Yearbook 1996 Spain. The parliamentary elections in early March became a victory for the Conservative Partido Popular (PP), which won 156 of the 350 seats in the second parliament of…
Yearbook 1996 South Korea. The nerve war between South Korea and North Korea intensified in April when armed North Korean soldiers entered the border zone, DMZ, several times, violating the…
Yearbook 1996 South Africa. Under the leadership of Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who left the post of Anglican Archbishop in 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission began its work…
Yearbook 1996 Somalia. Yet another year passed without visible signs that the state power could resurface. A chance for peace emerged when warlord Muhammad Farah Aidiid, the man who personified…
Yearbook 1996 Solomon Islands. The government’s unwillingness to regulate forest harvesting continued to create controversy in the country. The murder of an anti-fencing activist on the island of Pavuvu in…
Yearbook 1996 Slovenia. Slovenia, the most prosperous of the former Yugoslav republics, stood last summer in the long queue of countries wanting to join the EU. Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek…
Yearbook 1996 Slovakia. At the end of August, Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar carried out a minor reform. He himself explained the change with “personal problems, health reasons or other difficulties”.…
Yearbook 1996 Singapore. In February, the government presented its budget for 1996-97. As it showed a surplus of the order of seven billion Singaporean dollars, according to Finance Minister Richard…
Yearbook 1996 Sierra Leone. The year began with a military coup, an internal settlement within the governing junta. President Valentine Strasser was deposed by his closest husband, Brigadier General Julius…