If religious nationalists were better represented at the top judicial level, such extremists it is contended would be less likely to take the law into their own violent hands.

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And reforms of the judicial system, though blocked at the federal level, are slowly proceeding state by state.

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At the village level, Falintil has helped the reintegration of returning militia members in the absence of a functioning judicial system by administering home-brew justice, generally relying on community service-type sentences but sometimes veering to beatings.

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