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Friday, October 24, 2003 |
RFE/RL Central Asia Report
HEADLINES:
* CEREMONY INAUGURATES RUSSIAN BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN...
* ...WHILE RUSSIA PLEDGES DEEPER ENGAGEMENT IN KYRGYZ ECONOMY
* OPPOSITION CONGRESS HELD IN TASHKENT
9:20:08 AM 
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Healing Summer in Germany. People [were] standing up out of their wheelchairs, deaf could hear, and a young man with a severe lung disease, who had come with an oxygen mask and tank, left breathing normally... [DAWN Fridayfax]
9:14:12 AM
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Pyongyang Keeps Up Weapons Purchases. As you read this article, consider the following: between 1995 and early 2003, the United States gave North Korea $600 million in food aid, more than any other country. During the same period, 2 million North Koreans starved to death.... [Free North Korea!]
9:07:54 AM
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EXECUTED UYGHUR REFUGEE LEFT BEHIND TAPES DETAILING CHINESE TORTURE (RFA)
Chinese police used electric chair, nails, in bid to extract confession
Chiese authorities in Xinjiang have executed a Uyghur dissident who detailed a grim litany of torture sessions in an unprecedented testimony recorded for Radio Free Asia (RFA), which he requested be held until he was "in a safe place."
8:56:45 AM
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NORTH KOREAN CRACKDOWN AS EIGHT DEFECTORS ARRIVE IN SEOUL (RFA)
Guards cross Chinese border to catch defectors illegally. North Korea is cracking down on defectors crossing the border into China, RFA's Korean service has learned, as eight North Koreans arrive in South Korea after taking refuge in the South Korean embassy in Beijing.
8:40:05 AM
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