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Mohamed Bacar, Anjouan's President-elect

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Approximately 450 Comorian soldiers backed by 1,500 soldiers of the African Union last Tuesday invaded the island of Anjouan, the second of the Comoros islands, and took control. Several supporters of the separatist government have been killed, some officers were captured. The President-elect of Anjouan, Colonel Mohamed Bacar, still hasn’t been located. His re-election in June 2007 has been declared illegal by the federal government of Comoros islands.

The Russian parliament, the Duma, has approved a non-binding resolution that calls on the government to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two filo-russian provinces of European Georgia which are de facto independent.
The Duma stresses respect for the sovereignty of Georgia, while saying that the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo has changed the rules of the game.
In the reasoning of the Russian Duma also enters the filo-russian Transdniestrian region of Moldova, also a de facto independent state.

Another member of Degar ethnicity (the so-called Montagnards) met his death in Vietnamese prisons where he was imprisoned because of his religious convictions. The Degars, former allies of the US during the disaster of Vietnam, are persecuted by the central government for reasons of cultural identity tied to the land they occupy and religion they practice, causes of autonomist pushes.

Taiwan, another de facto independent state but without any international recognition, chose in a referendum not to pursue at the moment the entry into the United Nations, choosing the (economic) meeting rather than the (military) clash with China .

Bruno Picozzi (in translation)