That appears to be a simplistic characterization of what looks like an internal war inside the agency.

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As one of the five top commanders of the FMLN guerrillas in the 1980s, Handal bears personal responsibility for having plunged his country into a terrible internal war that cost tens of thousands of lives.

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This is because the largest Serbian opposition group, the ultranationalist Radical Party, has imploded thanks to an internal war between the devotees of Vojislav Seselj, currently standing trial for war crimes at the United Nations' tribunal in The Hague, and the allies of the more pragmatic Tomislav Nikolic, who led the party within Serbia.

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