The government here has been having negotiations with one of the
local rebel groups. Negotiations broke down last week when
details of a secret agreement leaked out. It seems that the
government was planning to cede large areas over to the rebels.
Citizens in the affected areas were outraged that they had not
been consulted. Tensions raised dramatically when two of the
rebel commanders began slaughtering hapless villagers. The rebel
negotiators claimed that they were not responsible, that those
two commanders were acting on their own. So the government then
demanded that the two be turned over to the criminal justice
system.
The response of the rebel leader? “Oh, no. We can’t subject our
members to the laws of the government. We are revolutionaries.”
Duh.
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