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In the Vanni district, for example, an area populated mainly by the Tamil minority, where hundreds remain displaced or resettled in shoddy shelters, many administrative measures need a military stamp of approval.
ECONOMIST: A victorious army keeps busy despite the lack of an enemy
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The military-led transitional government tried to stamp out the movement with force, killing more than forty demonstrators.
NEWYORKER: Arab Summer
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The "war on drugs" refers to a hard-line approach undertaken by the US government since the 1970s, which involves strict law enforcement, and foreign aid and military intervention in countries, in order to stamp out the narcotics trade.
BBC: Davos 2013: Soros calls for new strategy on drugs
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She compared illegal loggers to terrorists, and put Victor Corpus, a former military-intelligence chief and one-time communist guerrilla, in charge of a drive to stamp it out.
ECONOMIST: The government has few options bar rhetoric