Strategy of Recruiting Cheap Militiamen Backfires in Africa

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By arm­ing civil­ians who are poor­ly trained and have lit­tle to no respect for human rights, the mil­i­tary in Burk­i­na Faso has brought the West African nation to the brink of civ­il war.