Word: kisanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maniema province, cold-eyed President Hilarie Kisanga enforces discipline with 1,200 barefoot cops who lounge in the streets armed with lead pipes, and who live off on-the-spot fines imposed on passersby. Protests a shopowner: "You walk on the right side of the street and you are fined. You walk on the left side and you are fined." The average Congolese has little legal redress. Today, in a nation three times the size of Texas, there are only 47 judges to hear complaints-all foreigners, imported by the U.N. from such countries as Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland...
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