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Two men introduced to journalists by Mr. Ouattara's party who said they survived the mass killing accused the gendarmes of the massacre.

The Saudi intervention against Shiite rebels in Bahrain suggests the Saudis are the gendarmes of the Gulf; in Yemen, President Saleh has also begged for Saudi help, which they have so far withheld.

A crude processing procedure has taken form in East Timor in which returnees are first placed under the protection of unarmed United Nations police officers or the local vigilantes who have become the de facto gendarmes of many towns.

An on-again-off-again scandal that the Italian press has called VatiLeaks burst into the open on Friday with the arrest by Vatican gendarmes of a man, identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, the pope's butler, who the Vatican said was in possession of confidential documents and was suspected of leaking private letters, some of which were addressed to Pope Benedict XVI.

On 27 May, 6 officers and 300 gendarmes of the Sarajevo-based 4th Gendarmerie Regiment were deployed into parts of eastern Herzegovina.

Father Lombardi has also discussed the state of the investigation into "Paolo," as he familiarly refers to Mr. Gabriele, who was a trusted member of the papal household before his arrest last week by Vatican gendarmes on allegations of aggravated theft.

Much as President François Hollande of France denies that his country is still the gendarme of francophone Africa, the troops embroiled in Mali recall far earlier campaigns.

And, much as President François Hollande of France denies that his country is still the gendarme of francophone Africa, the columns of French soldiers and planeloads of paratroops embroiled in the newest fighting recall much earlier campaigns.

In 1848, the democratic spring did not last long before outside intervention: Czar Nicholas I of Russia crushed the revolutions in the Habsburg Empire, earning him the soubriquet "the gendarme of Europe".

To the upper classes in central Europe, Nicholas I was the stern defender of monarchical legitimacy; to democrats all over the world, he was "the gendarme of Europe" and the chief enemy of liberty.

France, the only European country still to have a permanent military presence in Africa with several major military bases, had sought to move on from its role as "gendarme" of the region.