Weekly Report - 20 January 2004

The government of President Oscar Berger has committed itself to supporting a UN-led commission which will investigate the clandestine groups assumed to have been responsible of most of the acts of political intimidation and violence over the past few years - a body which was supposed to have been up and running last September. At the same time, Berger's security supremo has announced a plan for the police which might prove a hindrance for that commission's work.