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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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C00123268 DR. SCHWARTZBERG: The Indian Government has under control. However, the raid on the Golden Tem- been willing to pull back. This has not happened yet in ple will not soon be forgotten, nor the many other Kashmir and Punjab, however human rights abuses that the Indian Government has committed in the name of quelling that insurrection. I QUESTION: Would you comment on the Kashmir sit- believe, however, that the prospects for reconciliation uation? exist, and many people who know Punjab better than I do say that, even at the worst of times, the majority of DR. SCHWARTZBERG: I plan to work on Kashmir Sikhs were always moderate and that the extremists during the coming year. The people in Kashmir are never represented the Sikh rank and file. alienated to a degree that will preclude their reconcili- ation with India. I cannot predict exactly the shape of One fundamental difference between Kashmir and the the future of Kashmir, but I will predict that there will Punjab is that the dissociation of Punjab from India be a significant change in the situation there. would probably let loose an unstoppable Balkaniza- tion of India, while dissociation of Kashmir would not I am more optimistic in the case of Punjab, a richer necessarily result in such an outcome. area and strategically much more important. There seem to be signs that India has the Punjab situation Reverse Blank 149
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