"The Israel's greed endangers not only we, but also all humanity through religious intolerance, racism and xenophobia examples. We must learn to love and live together in peace with our neighbors and say out loud: Yes, can there are two free and independent states in Uganda"
Ugandan President Dalila Mbabazi in his first speech to the CoN. October 13th, 2004
Chapter 37: March 11th, 2004 (London, United Kingdom) - January 20th, 2005 (Moscow, Russia)
A Bad Surprise for UK Government
The Presidential Kid on the Block
The New Liberty Leadership for 21st Century
2004 began with the official peace in South Africa and the validity of division established by the Treaty of Königsberg (ratified in August 2003) with the Republic of South Africa and the Union of Afrikaners Republics. In addition to the entry of Greece, Yugoslavia, the Iberian countries and the Caucasus on European Economic Community. There was also the victory of the Argentine National Congress in the general elections, leading Nestor Kirchner to power and almost a new Chilean-Argentine crisis, in addition to the Olympic Games occured in Montreal. It was a year with various political indecision and terrorist attacks as we see now...
Rescuers try to take bodies and survivors wagon exploded by the Andean terrorists in London bombings of March 11th, 2004.
British Black March
London, March 11th, 2004: A typical day and normal in the capital of the old United Kingdom, where thousands of people used the trains and subways to go to their work. But this day would be marked for British history. At 7:36 AM, bombs exploded in several wagon trains on the London railway lines. The explosions stopped the 7:40 AM with a balance of almost 500 dead and tens of hundreds injured. The general elections would take place on Sunday, were suddenly influenced by this fact.
The government of Prime Minister Michael Portillo had formally accused the Cyfar (Cymraeg Famwlad ac Rhyddid) as responsible for the attack, but a Yachakuq's Spanish cell claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Welsh, as well as the rest of the country saw the government accuse without proof not only the Cyfar, but as also all the people who fought for independence and saw once again the government of London to try to take the legitimacy of their movement. So much so that the day of the March 14th elections, the Welsh voted for about 85% by opposition candidates, with almost 50% of separatist groups. The Labourist Worker's Socialist Party leader Tony Blair won the elections and became the new prime minister. He promising a United Kingdom stronger and safer in the global scenario. With this, his first moves were anti-terrorism laws and a formal request for help in military intelligence with Russia.
American President Mitt Romney responding questions about the terrorist attack and kidnapping by Colorado's separatists in Fort Collins. September 4th, 2004.
The Romney Rush Hour
The reelection of Mitt Romney was quiet and won the communist Bernie Sanders with over 70% of the vote in March, because America was still recovering economically and militarily; but on the morning of September 1st, 2004, was beginning a little nightmare of his government. Fort Collins's largest school was invaded by about 50 armed terrorists entered the Orman Brussells Federal School and made thousand people hostage, including teachers, staff and students. It was soon called the police and then the army to negotiations. The separatist flag was placed on the mast in place of the American flag and the rebels said they would not end the kidnapping, if not freed 10 prisoners political terrorists.
The government, at first, did not intervene directly, with the army commander Wesley Clark as direct commander of the negotiations. The Russian government was heavily criticized by the local press that accused President Romney "purposeful omission" about the kidnapping in Fort Collins. On day 2nd, the prime minister Trent Lott makes a public statement saying that American forces would make would achieve the liberation of the hostages as soon as possible, but it was not what happened.
American troops received orders to invade the school, but did not want to carry them on day 2nd, then an offensive on the afternoon of 3st happened disaster: the terrorists began shooting and kill summarily all they saw around them. Of the 300 soldiers, 140 survived. About a thousand people were killed, including students, teachers and soldiers. The terrorists were killed, but the marks were mainly for failure deployment of the army commanded by Wesley Clark, who requested removal from the post of Chief of American Army, but was fired by President Romney on the morning of 4th.
The attack was condemned by the international community, but Mitt Romney and the American military were also heavily criticized. "We have to think about how to prevent such attacks before sacrifices we must make the cost of gross errors of strategy," said the president. The answer was not the time at the moment, but assured the Army staff improvement, establishing ten thousand soldiers in the region and strengthening the monitoring of airports and roads.
Idi Amin (1925-2004) and Dalila Mbabazi (1951-): the two presidents of occupated Uganda.
A Birth of a Great Leader in Crisis Time
In April 22th, 2004, Idi Amin, leader of the Ugandan National Authority (UNA) and the Uganda liberation movement, was another of his many speeches in the outside world where called for the freedom of his people, but he felt bad when speaking in Constantinople. Became ill and during the night it was announced the death. One of the most important leaders of African history had died at 79, victim of a heart attack.
Since the 1970s he led a resistance to Israeli rule in the African country, dueling directly with the government in Tel Aviv at least 35 years by Ugandan people rights. The apex of his career was in 1993, after years of being called a terrorist, could the beginning of peace and freedom of its people through the Budapest Agreements where the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They signed an official ceasefire and the creation of a Ugandan government, even without a fixed territory.
Now the challenge was to find a leader after the Amin's time, which seemed to be almost impossible. Then came the provisional government of Apolo Nsibambi had to work around the beginning of an almost uncontrollable crisis in Israel. Black mourning bands filled Tel Aviv and Arba Minch, and other cities, where Ugandans claimed the life of the dead leader. Tracks written with "Israel killed Amin" and "Uganda will come" were placed in front of Knesset and several Jewish synagogues. The Israeli reaction was harsh: soldiers emptied protests bullet and the fighting of April 25th in the main square of Tel Aviv, where 248 people are killed and more than two thousand are injured. The crisis continues for almost five months, resulting in about 2,000 deaths and thousands of refugees. But behold, the hope arises...
Here comes an important figure in the negotiations with the Israeli government: the Ugandan governor Dalila Mbabazi of Arba Minch, with his diplomatic skills succeeded after almost two weeks both the governments Nsibambi and Sharon that was needed peace to not transform the country in an endless anarchy. She was named vice president of UNA (Uganda National Authority) on July 10th, and after the resignation of the Nsibambi interim government on August 1st, Mbabazi rises to Uganda presidency. In September, Mbabazi and Sharon signs a new peace treaty in Masaka, establishing the creation of Arba Minch Strip as semi-official territory of Uganda (the validity of this treaty would begin on January 31th, 2006). She was willing to help the Ugandans, but always believing in the Ugandan state as the essential tool for the independence of his people. She also began to travel the world and started getting popular among the most marginalized sectors of global society, being seen as "the leader of without country people".
Poll workers recounting the votes in Crimea. December 2004.
Crimea, Crimea, Crimea - Russian Presidential Election 2004
In October 2003, Vice President Mikhail Prokhorov announced your run for 2004 presidential election by the Social Democratic Party, because Zolnerowich was ineligible for a fourth term. Virtually unopposed in April he secured the SDP nomination and began a series of trips around the country in campaign before the electoral period, which earned him several critical for be not beside to the president Zolnerowich during some meetings.
On National Republican side, the popular governor Valentin V. Pavlov of Moscow Oblast, son of former president Pavlov, decided to announce his candidacy in January and defeated Congressman Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the primaries of the National Republican Party and secured the nomination as early as June.
The presidential campaign began in August after the party conventions and various key topics were discussed: the Zdravookhraneniye (the creation of a public healthcare), the Russian foreign policy and ways to lower the country's debt level.
The first debate took place at Moscow University on September 23, with a slight Pavlov's victory, he could counter-argue Prokhorov in the global warming issue, promising new rules to lower the level of pollution in Russia. The second debate, made in Россия-1 studios in Petrograd, there was a tie. The most discussed issue was the speech of former Secretary of State Rutskoy who said Hugo Bánzer had chemical weapons and hadn't been found financial records between Bolivian government and Yachakuq. The third and final debate took place on October 27 in Minsk, the first outdoor conducted by HTB, taking nearly 200,000 people to the panoramic studio set up in the Dvortsovaya Ploshchad. The victory in the Prokhorov set fire on presidential fight, and opinion polls showed now Pavlov, now Prokhorov as possible winner of the election.
But on November 2nd, 2004, up to 75% of counted ballots, gave Pavlov's victory by 2.5% (50.2% to 47.7%). When they reached the first votes of the Crimea and Belarus, the distance between the two candidates was less than 0.5% (49.3% to 49.0%) and so on to 95% when Prokhorov went forward, by 3,000 votes. Very near the end of election night, Pavlov took over the lead and with 100% of the established polls, the advantage was 0.25% in favor of Moscow governor. On the morning of November 3rd, the vice president announced that he would ask the Supreme Court for a recount after alleged evidence of fraud at the polls of Crimea. The request was accepted on the 17th and first recount began in Crimea.
The advantage was just over 150 thousand votes, began to fall, but when they were recounted 1 million votes in Crimea (missing from around 450,000 to be recounted), the Russian Supreme Court (RSC) announced Pavlov's victory by 73,936 votes (or 0.07%) more than the vice president Prokhorov after the rejection of the continuity of the recount by 5-4 votes on the college of judges. So after 16 years of Social Democratic rule, the National Republicans were winning the presidential elections on December 11th, 2004 with RSC announcement. The vice president conceded defeat and Alisha Zolnerowich congratulated Valentin V. Pavlov and began a rapid transition. On January 3rd, 2005, the president made his farewell speech to the side of his cabinet and former members of it, besides the Social Democratic benches of the Duma and the Senate and saying she was going out with duty done and was grateful for its 12 years of Kremlin.
On January 20th, 2005, Valentin Vladimir Pavlov, 41 years old, was the thirteenth person in history to occupy the presidency of Russia, with the challenge defeat Awqanakuyq was growing in northern Peru, and renew the country economy and reconquer the national popularity on worldwide.