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Article: French troops curb ethnic militia.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: AFRICA)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2003
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Byline: Carter Dougherty, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BUNIA, Congo - French military muscle has transformed life in this town in the far northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo to a remarkable degree. But none can tell whether the calm will outlast the Central African summer.
Where Kalashnikov-toting, teenage militiamen in plastic sandals and tattered T-shirts once swaggered through empty streets with impunity, heavily armed French troops now patrol in groups and respond quickly to any provocation. Bunia's central market, previously a looter's paradise dotted with bloated corpses, looks like a bustling place of business.
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