To root out remaining pockets of rebel resistance in eastern Turkey, the government relocated some 3,000 subsistence farmers who were thought to be PKK sympathizers. Those with the brains to keep their political sympathies to themselves-about 70,000 folks considered loyal to the government-were rewarded with a gun and $200 a month in cash and instructed to defend their villages, hardly night watchman's pay in eastern Turkey. Not a cool thing to be doing if you want to collect your pension. The biggest PKK massacres have, unsuprisingly, been perpetrated against village guards. An average of ten village guards are killed every month. This job sucks.
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