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The High Commissioner has observed that government policies in the fight against paramilitarism, and particularly against links between public servants and paramilitary groups, need to be strengthened.

Attention is drawn to continued reports received by the office of cases in which coordinated operations have been carried out by members of the security forces and paramilitary groups, and cases in which the victims had been detained by members of the paramilitary forces and subsequently reported by the army as having been killed in combat.

(iv) Act concerning the abolition of all paramilitary forces, in accordance with article 263 1 of the Constitution

E. Paramilitaries

State officials must also avoid making comments expressing satisfaction or understanding regarding paramilitarism.

Violence decreased most significantly with the disbanding of the right wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.

Military deployments

The Security Forces launched attacks against the paramilitary groups, but on a smaller scale than those against the FARC EP.

The prospect of a conviction is virtually zero, especially if the alleged perpetrator is a member of the security forces, the paramilitaries or the guerrilla.

The Spanish Armed Forces (, FFAA) are the military forces of the Kingdom of Spain.

Parallel to the negotiation process with the AUC, the expansion and consolidation of paramilitary groups in various parts of the country had become more publicly known.

The paramilitary groups failed to respect the cessation of hostilities.

Forced disappearance continued to be a strategy employed by paramilitary groups.

The number of participants from the militias and paramilitary groups has yet to be determined.

Most military forces have adopted the French millieme system.

Regarding the demobilization of paramilitaries, the legal situation of each individual has not been clarified, including those who may have committed grave crimes constituting war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) ( (TSK)) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey.

The key factor in internal security is local paramilitary units.

The paramilitary groups also continued their action against the ELN.

Complicity on the part of paramilitaries was reported in some of these cases.

They stressed that all paramilitary and militia groups must also be disarmed.

Negotiations with the AUC were aimed at the demobilization of these paramilitary groups, despite their continued violations of the cessation of hostilities, as the Government publicly demanded.

Any cases that arise lead immediately to discharge from the military forces.

Von Braun predicted that military forces would use orbiting platforms to observe troop movements and prevent surprise attacks.

The paramilitaries continued to commit breaches, along with violations of the cessation of hostilities.

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The Rijkswacht (Dutch) or Gendarmerie (French) was the former paramilitary police force of Belgium.

The High Commissioner requests the President, as Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, to adopt the necessary measures to sever all links between public officials and members of paramilitary groups and to effectively dismantle the structures of the paramilitary.

There was generally a simplistic approach about security sector reform on the African continent, which had led to an overriding focus on downsizing and not enough analysis of what kinds of military forces were necessary in Africa.

Initially, this may be an issue for the military.

Army officers were trained in France, and relations to Western Europe and Sweden were strengthened.

During these years the military forces of the Republic of Colombia managed to be strengthened.

(b) The État major Géneral, État major forces and État major military regions (divisions) have been integrated.

The office in Colombia continued to record grave breaches on the part of the illegal armed groups, particularly FARC EP and the paramilitary groups, even though a number of the latter have declared a cessation of hostilities.

There is no room for fudge and, equally, no room for any continuation of paramilitarism or criminality.

In this context, it must be emphasized that the illegal armed groups (FARC EP, ELN, AUC and other paramilitary groups) totally ignored the recommendations addressed to them.

He has mainly a representative role and is the commander in chief of the Slovenian military forces.

It also contains a military police force and a special forces component (GIGN).

He joined the Canadian Armed Forces and earned an engineering degree at Royal Military College.

But indoctrination and even some forms of paramilitary training are also available on the Internet.

In recent years, the Indonesian military has provided a model for other Third World military forces on how to accept a transition to a full democracy.

Ecuador and Venezuela, interested in putting the conflict behind them, began to participate in operations against illegal groups leftist guerrillas, right wing paramilitary forces, and drug traffickers that use their frontiers to elude Colombia s armed forces.

On 15 and 16 August, Government military and military police forcefully entered the Bella site near Saraf Omra (North Darfur) and destroyed dwellings.

Turkish blogger Murat Altinbasak keeps us abreast with Turkey's aerial military might in this post.