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...Thursday, U.S. marshals and FBI agents peacefully removed 216 protesters who had been camped at the military training range since April 1999. The group began its protests after civilian guard David Sanes was accidentally killed by an errant bomb drop last year...
...countries such as Sierra Leone and the Congo create little grounds for optimism about the durability of peace. After all, until now the weapons that the Sierra Leone rebels refuse to hand over have guaranteed them a more viable economic existence than they?d be likely to find in civilian life...
Alexander also said he believes the local media should pay more attention to the opposition movement so the civilian population will be informed about the drive for early elections...
...While the military has been under pressure from the civilian leadership to avoid human rights abuses in its counterinsurgency efforts, the paramilitaries have been a useful tool for those elements pursuing a "dirty war" against civilians suspected of supporting the guerrillas. Widely documented instances of the military's arming, training, organizing, equipping and sharing intelligence with the paramilitaries - and of those same paramilitaries gleefully massacring civilians - fueled resistance on Capitol Hill to an aid package supporting the armed forces...
...Part of the problem raised with a policy of fighting drugs by funding the Colombian military is that it avoids the fact that the drug trade has permeated all sides of that war, not only leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries but the armed forces themselves and even the civilian leadership: Pastrana's predecessor, President Ernesto Samper, for example, has been accused of taking some $6 million in campaign contributions from drug barons. "There's general agreement that President Pastrana is pretty clean," says McGirk. "But it's hard to know how deep the corruption in the military goes...