Clinton also refers to 'collusion between the security forces and the Protestant para-military group'.

Hizballah and other para-military groups have at times detained U.S. citizens or other foreigners for interrogation - sometimes for hours or longer.

The goal was to assert the power of the government, legitimise the Congress party's control and suppress all religious para-military groups.

The threats of the para-military group, the Mazorca, Sastre did not run to Montevideo, as several of his friends had done.

In 1982, during a wave of student protests taking place at UET, Imran Anwar was attacked and arrested by six members of a para-military group of General Zia-ul-Haq's government.

Some former members of the group also function along with the Sri Lankan Army as a para-military group in military activities against the LTTE.

A month later, when Schleicher was in the same situation as Papen, Schleicher was to tell Hindenburg that the Reichswehr could easily defeat all of the para-military groups and that martial law should be declared.

Very soon it reached 70,000 members, was temporarily banned in early 1921 and, temporarily being the largest of the many para-military groups in the 1920s, later expanded to almost 300,000 members.

The peace process has been in a gridlock ever since, and armed conflicts frequently make casualties, often involving para-military groups.

The para-military groups initially grew out of the private armies of cocaine cartels.