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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2002.
Daily events
Monday December 2, 2002
- Caracas / Venezuela : trade unions and employers' associations call the general strike off to President Hugo Chavez to overthrow, in the South American the state socialism of the 21st century wants to realize.
Tuesday 3rd December 2002
- Yokohama / Japan : The football World Cup for club teams goes to a 2: 0 win over Paraguayan club Olimpia from Asuncion to Real Madrid .
Saturday 7th December 2002
- Caracas / Venezuela : During the oil the state oil company, stock Petróleos de Venezuela because of the joint strike by unions CTV and FEDECAMARAS is running out, says President Hugo Chavez , who two years ago, the " Bolivarian Revolution proclaimed" and is the recipient of the criticism of the strikers , the failure of the " coup versuchs". Meanwhile, government and opposition negotiators are returning to the negotiating table to try to overcome the crisis.
Monday December 9, 2002
- Geneva / Switzerland : The Indonesian government under Megawati Sukarnoputri and representatives of the Free Aceh movement put an end to two-day discussions, which ended with a joint declaration. This announces a “ democratic exchange” with “consideration of all members of society in the province of Aceh ”. The province is the scene of a strong, violent liberation movement aimed at gaining independence from Indonesia.
Tuesday December 10, 2002
- Rotenburg an der Fulda / Germany : The police searched Armin Meiwes' house and found the frozen remains of Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes. A student from Innsbruck gave the reference to Meiwes because of a suspicious advertisement by the cannibal on the Internet. Meiwes, who also filmed the killing and eating of the body parts of Brandes, is arrested.
Friday December 13, 2002
- Copenhagen / Denmark : The EU summit decides to accept ten new members on May 1, 2004. All countries are east of the line Sweden - Germany - Austria - Italy .
Saturday December 14, 2002
- Amsterdam / Netherlands : The works Seebad Scheveningen and The Congregation Leaves the Reformed Church in Nuenen by Vincent van Gogh are stolen from the Van Gogh Museum . The thieves of the uninsured pictures, estimated at several million euros , presumably came through the roof into the building.
Friday December 20, 2002
- Wiesbaden / Germany : " Teuro " as a name for what many people believe has been high inflation since the introduction of euro cash is the word of the year in Germany for the Society for German Language . Scientists have pointed out several times that there is no extraordinary inflation in the so-called " Eurozone ".
Saturday December 21, 2002
- Kabul / Afghanistan : During a reconnaissance flight seven soldiers come armed forces in the crash of their helicopter type CH-53 Sikorsky near the Afghan capital killed .
Monday December 23, 2002
- Jerusalem / Israel : Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused in a TV telecast Syria , the Iraq weapons of mass destruction to hide.
- Ljubljana / Slovenia : Janez Drnovšek is sworn in as president.
- Nyŏngbyŏn-gun / North Korea : Removal of the control cameras in the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which was closed in 1994 .
- Podgorica / Montenegro : The election of the president fails due to insufficient turnout .
Wednesday December 25, 2002
- Moscow , Vladivostok / Russia : After 74 years of work, the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok is fully electrified.
Thursday December 26, 2002
- Pakistan : attack on a church kills three.
- Washington, DC / United States : Based on testimony from CIA staff , the Washington Post reveals the interrogation methods used by American intelligence in the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan . The use of "hardship and forced" ( English " stress and duress " ) against suspects is normal.
- Vienna / Austria : The SPÖ criticizes the asylum policy of the Austrian federal government .
Friday December 27, 2002
- Grozny / Russia : Chechen armed fighters , allegedly commissioned by Aslan Maskhadov , steer a truck and jeep into a building of the Chechen government, which is supported by Russia. 46 people died when the bombs deposited in the vehicles exploded.
- Iraq : US and British warplanes attack targets in the south of the country.
- Kenya : Unrest on the eve of the presidential election kills several people.
Sunday December 29, 2002
- Nairobi / Kenya : Mwai Kibaki wins the presidential elections.
- Stockholm / Sweden : A hostage-taking occurs in the main train station .
- Stromboli / Italy : The Stromboli volcano erupts. A part of the Kegelberg tears off.
Monday December 30, 2002
- Belgrade / Yugoslavia : A new constitution comes into force. It stipulates that the " Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" should become a state union; a cut-off date for the beginning of 2003 is planned for this. The name "Yugoslavia" is to be stored on this.
- Yemen : Three US doctors are shot dead.
- Jerusalem / Israel : conscientious objectors fail with a complaint to the Supreme Court.
- Beijing / China : Gerhard Schröder is visiting.
- Philippines : Four dead in a bomb attack.
- Puerto La Cruz / Venezuela : The tanker Amazonian Explorer enters the port of the city. President Hugo Chávez travels from Caracas , 200 km away , to oversee the unloading of 525,000 barrels (83,000 m³) of gasoline . Because of the strike at the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela , gasoline is rationed.
Tuesday December 31, 2002
- Moscow / Russia : The country ends the OSCE mission in Chechnya .
- North Korea : Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) leave the country.
See also
- Nekrolog December 2002 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or days of action in December
Web links
Commons : December 2002 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venezuela is on the brink of civil war. In: wienerzeitung.at . December 10, 2002, accessed November 21, 2018 .
- ↑ World Cup, competitions 1960–2004. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Escalation of the strike in Venezuela. In: nzz.ch . December 9, 2002, accessed May 4, 2019 .
- ^ The Aceh Peace Process and lessons for Mindanao. In: kas.de . October 15, 2007, accessed May 4, 2019 .
- ^ A chronicle of the cannibalism case of Rotenburg. In: faz.net . January 30, 2004, accessed March 6, 2017 .
- ^ The history of the European Union - 2002. In: europa.eu . Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Stolen Van Gogh pictures not insured. In: faz.net . December 7, 2002, accessed February 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Teuro strikes the millennium. In: spiegel.de . December 20, 2002, accessed October 10, 2016 .
- ↑ The Fallen - a sad list. In: fr.de . June 5, 2009, accessed May 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says. In: The New York Sun . January 26, 2006, accessed on August 17, 2019 : "on Israel's Channel 2 on December 23, 2002"
- ↑ US Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations. In: washingtonpost.com . December 26, 2002, accessed October 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Chechnya suicide bombs kill 46 in: bbc.co.uk . December 27, 2002, accessed October 19, 2016 .
- ↑ The official use of the term “State Union of Serbia and Montenegro” began on February 4, 2003.
- ↑ Suspected Islamist shoots three US doctors in Yemen. In: faz.net . December 30, 2002, accessed September 16, 2016 .