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...militias' reach extends beyond the camps. In Dili's giddy bustle, ragged storekeepers in plywood shanties offer cheap Indonesian cigarettes smuggled in from West Timor, often with militia help. Lieut. Peter Ireland, who commands a U.N. reconnaissance platoon, says his teams spy on border markets. In West Timor, pro-integrationists have interests in shops, gambling, construction, and mechanical repairs. Behind the imposing Atambua compound of former militia commander-in-chief Jo?o Tavares, cheering punters bet avidly on cockfights...
...sense the violence was only another dreadful bout of the Northern Ireland Troubles that have continued for more than 30 years. Those few square kilometers of north Belfast around Holy Cross are notorious for sectarian hatred: a fifth of all the killings in Northern Ireland's conflict have happened there. But the terrified, tear-streaked faces of little girls cowering beside their frightened parents left people profoundly shocked. The sight of grown men and women, faces distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts...
...varied catalog of intolerance: disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June. The tribal talk was a depressing illustration of why Northern Ireland's peace process now seems to be sinking back into mutual recrimination and tit-for-tat violence...
...because much had been going right in the province. Many of the Holy Cross girls were not yet born when the main paramilitary groups entered cease-fires seven years ago. The 1998 Good Friday agreement ushered in a period of relative peace, stability and economic growth that makes Northern Ireland a better place to live than it has been for 30 years...
...Sectarian attacks are on the rise again. "It would be very odd for us to have gone through what we've gone through for the last 30 years and for there to be no scars and fears and hatred and mistrust," says Will Glendinning, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council. "It's like helping an alcoholic get off the drink: stopping is easy compared to staying off day after day. Gaining the ceasefires was relatively easier than building and maintaining the peace...