1.   Sharif had succeeded in curtailing military impunity through a change in the constitution.

2.   He inherits a country where crime, judicial ineptness, military impunity and poverty have become endemic.

3.   Shopkeepers pulled down metal shutters, tourists scurried from the National Palace and police lines doubled as demonstrators protesting military impunity marched on the main square Wednesday.

4.   The United Nations denounced the killings and within days Defense Minister Mario Enriquez resigned, shocking a country accustomed to military impunity.