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...separation barrier—saying it has been “universally condemned as illegal by the international community”—they emphasized that his actions in southern Lebanon were more problematic. As the “effective supervisor” of the South Lebanon Army (SLA), and later as head of the Israeli Northern Command, they charged, Ashkenazi was responsible for many of the abuses that occurred in the occupied Lebanese territories...
Though Ashkenazi has never been charged with wrongdoing in an Israeli or international court, a report by B’Tselem said that Israeli military units—units Ashkenazi held high-level positions in and eventually commanded—were responsible for financing, arming, and controlling the SLA...
...neighboring Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to occasional massacres. Hostilities simmered for more than a decade. But the spark for war came in April last year, when, following two months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town of al-Fashir, killed 75 Sudanese government soldiers, shot up four military aircraft and kidnapped the air force chief, Major General Ibrahim Bushra. The rebel group claimed that the raid was a protest against both the government's neglect of Darfur...
...grab land and livestock under the banner of a state-sanctioned military operation. Locals dubbed the fighters Janjaweed, a name that loosely means "devils on horseback" and has long been used to describe the region's bandits. By August 2003 the Janjaweed had begun attacking not only the SLA fighters but also Darfurian civilians, who it said were aiding the insurgency. The conflict quickly descended into ethnic cleansing, say human-rights observers, with the Janjaweed attacking and driving out people on the basis of ethnicity. Darfur's largest Arab tribes refused to take part in the fighting, and many Africans...
...trap down." When told that nearly 25% of Sierra Leone's army recruits tested positive, he is dismissive. "Twenty-five persons is not many," he says, sitting outside his house in the RUF stronghold of Makeni. Not persons, percent. One in four. "You mean one in four in the SLA?" he asks, with surprise and a hint of fear. "Ahhh. Even peace brings complications. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone is the biggest in the world. By the end of the year 17,500 troops from 31 armies, including large contingents from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, will...