41. Myrna Mack was an anthropologist who worked with a group that had accused the army of human rights violations. 42. Myrna Mack was a Guatemalan who worked with a group that had accused the army of human rights violations. 43. Priests accused the army of systematically bulldozing houses and fields in newly captured areas, and urged diplomats and human rights organizations to pressure the government to stop. 44. Settler leaders accused the army of not doing enough to protect them. 45. The army is accused of taking on duties beyond its role largely because critics charge civilian authorities are either not present in remote villages or not properly exercising functions. 46. The army has been accused of killing civilians while looking for armed Hutus, a charge the military denies. 47. The Burmese army has been accused by several human rights organizations of forcing villagers to serve as porters. 48. The country is in the grip of its own civil war in which both Hutu rebels and the Tutsi army have been accused of bouts of savagery against civilians. 49. The government, meanwhile, accused neighboring armies of joining the fighting in eastern Zaire and said drugged children were being used as human shields. 50. The move was denounced by international human rights activists who accuse the army of running death squads and committing widespread abuses in Aceh. |