Word: antiguerrilla
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While the guerrillas have grown stronger, army morale has weakened. Corruption within the officer corps is said to be a serious problem. The 30,000-man army has come to leave much of antiguerrilla patrolling to local militias, which consist of inadequately trained and poorly armed conscripts...
...controversy could be stirred up by the Serbs' choice of leader for the force--General Goran Radosavljevic, a.k.a. Guri, chief of the gendarmerie. During the Kosovo war, he led a cluster of antiguerrilla teams called Operative Posse Groups (OPG). Several human-rights organizations claim OPG committed atrocities against civilians; the 2001 Human Rights Watch report alleges, for instance, that they killed 41 ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Cuska in western Kosovo in May 1999, though no indictment has been issued against Radosavljevic. A New York court is also considering charges that he and other police officials are responsible...
...battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war--which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another...
...battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war - which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony; it's quite another...
...than 35,000 lives, often in brutal massacres. The war involves four parties: the government, a Marxist movement known as the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), a Cuban-inspired movement known as the ELN (National Liberation Army) and an increasing number of paramilitary right-wingers taking the antiguerrilla fight into their own hands. The only groups that don't often fight each other are the FARC and the ELN. But both the FARC rebels and the paramilitaries derive huge revenues by "taxing" coca production in areas they control. Last year alone, the FARC, the largest group, is estimated...