Reply #11: Reform of East Timor security forces crucial-report [View All]

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Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:16am EST

JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - East Timor needs to reform its police and army rapidly to head off the risk of renewed violence in the tiny country, a report by the International Crisis Group said on Friday.

Asia's youngest nation plunged into mayhem in 2006 when the army tore apart on regional lines and foreign troops had to be brought in to restore order.

The ensuing factional bloodshed killed 37 people and drove 150,000 from their homes, setting back development in one of the world's poorest nations ...

The United Nations will decide in February whether to extend the mandate of UNMIT, its fifth mission to East Timor since 1999 ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSJAK24114