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East Timor’s Unready Police

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Jun 18, 2008
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Philippine UN-soldiers in East Timor

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The United Nations, called in two years ago in the wake of a breakdown of East Timor’s security forces that led to dozens of deaths, appears set to end its training of local police, many of whom are still unfit to be in uniform, leading to fears that carnage will begin again in a country ill…

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