31.   The sanction was agreed on after a damning report by Commonwealth observers concluded that the election was wracked by violence and seriously flawed.

32.   Tripura, with a population of about three million, has been wracked by violence blamed on three tribal groups which want their own separate state.

33.   Violence has wracked Algeria for three and a half years, after the authorities cancelled elections which the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front was poised to win.

34.   The land reforms have been wracked by violence for almost two years, and closely tied to a sometimes deadly campaign of political intimidation targetting mainly opposition supporters.