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Special crime fighting units dissolved

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    Cote d’Ivoire’s military authorities have decided to dissolve special crime-fighting units set up after a December 1999 coup, the Ivoirian leader, General Robert Guei, announced at the weekend. The units, called PC crises (crisis command posts) were set up within the armed forces to function as a type of military regular police and to assist the police and gendarmerie in the fight against crime. However, they had been accused by human rights advocates, especially the Ligue ivoirienne des Droits de l’Homme (LIDHO), of committing extra-judicial executions and other abuses.

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