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Yet this week three senior officers from the army's most elite battalion have appeared before a military council to face allegations of abducting and torturing political activists.

An elite battalion of paratroopers was reduced to a company size and was the only operational force in the entire military, the official said.

Officers from RAB were involved in the killing on Monday morning of Shukur Ali, who the elite battalion claimed was a "notorious" yaba and cannabis dealer with at least 10 drug cases against him.

As it happened, the vice-president of the Haitian FA, major Acedius St Louis, was also the commander of the Leopards, a notorious elite battalion of the Haitian army under Duvalier's personal command.

The son of Irrawaddy Delta peasants who rose through the army ranks and commanded an elite battalion during the bloody suppression of a student uprising in 1988, the new president was dismissed by many Burmese as the latest in a long line of opaque and isolationist rulers.

Vann hoped to trap the Viet Cong inside the hamlets by blocking their retreat routes on all sides, and annihilate them using an elite battalion of South Vietnamese paratroopers.

Last year, three black firefighters filed a suit claiming that the city discriminated against them when it rejected their requests to transfer to elite battalions.

Two elite battalions of Jonas Savimbi's UNITA army which was supposed to have demobilised in preparation for Angola's government of national unity have based themselves across the border in Zaire.

The mainly Alawite elite battalions and the air force are still largely intact, and supported on the ground by hastily recruited militias — the so-called shabiha — which have been responsible for most of the atrocities against civilians.

Without assurances for their future, the elite battalions, air force, intelligence services and shabiha will fight on simply to secure the survival of their community, possibly in an Alawite enclave in the coastal mountains.

Low-flying aerial spray planes -- protected from groundfire by two elite battalions that are dropped into coca fields -- have blanketed four regions of Caquetá and Putumayo Provinces, spraying herbicide over 65,785 acres as of Sunday, according to newly released military estimates.