E. Paramilitaries

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Kremlin closed its eyes to Kadryov s amnesty of former guerrillas and their inclusion in his paramilitary units.

The other notable characteristic of these paramilitary groups was their connections with the security apparatuses of States overtly or covertly involved in the conflicts.

At the end of 2008, The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) made an historic announcement to launch 10,000 blogs in support of the paramilitary Basij forces.

Part of this task implies taking more concrete and appropriate steps to sever links between public servants and paramilitary groups.

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

The interests of the illegal groups linked to drug trafficking have become increasingly evident, which was reflected in particular in disputes and confrontations between paramilitary groups.

Massacres attributed to paramilitaries were reported in Antioquia, Arauca, Bogotá, Córdoba, Guajira, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Tolima and Risaralda.

The supply, sale and brokering of technical advice and training or assistance related to the supply, production, maintenance and use of the items referred to in paragraph 1 are prohibited.

Since then, two parallel transitions have been taking place one toward democracy, and the other, in the field of drug trafficking, toward a paramilitary mafioso framework.

In some cases, omission on the part of the authorities or complicity with illegal armed groups, particularly paramilitaries, invoked the responsibility of the State.

Neither have any mechanisms been adopted with a view to introducing special measures to protect raped or tortured women during existing judicial processes. In addition, the Government, in consultation with paramilitaries, is pushing for legislation that will guarantee impunity for perpetrators of grave human rights violations.

And I couldn't help notice that the people who were perpetrating the appalling atrocities, the paramilitary organizations, were actually the same people running the organized criminal syndicates.

Mexico s government and military had established a tacit, semi violent, corrupt, but effective modus vivendi with the drug cartels since the early 1970 s.

The security forces took action against the paramilitary groups, but on a smaller scale compared to the actions taken against the FARC EP.

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

Repeated reports received by the office, along with direct observation in the field, indicate that links between paramilitary groups and public servants, members of the security forces and government employees continued.

They are also blamed for illegal attacks, killings and death threats against women for having had relations with members of the security forces or the paramilitary groups.

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.

It had become almost impossible clearly to distinguish between traditional soldiers of fortune and personnel of PMCs, owing to the new marketization of security.

Reports also continued to be received of abuses of women and children attributed to paramilitary groups, in particular rape, threats, torture, selective killings, imposition of codes of conduct and sexual slavery.

BEIRUT The future of Hezbollah, Lebanon s powerful Shia political and paramilitary organization, has never looked more uncertain.

The precariousness of the policy to combat paramilitarism was noted, particularly with regard to its structures, including links between members of the security forces and other public officials with those groups.

Various disappearances appear to be related to forced recruitment, including of minors, by paramilitary groups in poor neighbourhoods of cities such as Bogotá, Medellín and Sincelejo.

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.

One task with large scale implications remains how to stop, counteract and rid the country of the strong influence of paramilitarism in various places, administrations and institutions.

Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance they had the likeness of a man.

Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance they had the likeness of a man.

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.