A 1917 poster shouts "Down with bureaucracy, up with Soviet initiative" as bureaucratic ineptitude is exposed in a cartoon narrative.

Despite attempts to win the hearts and minds of the Kivutians, the continued human rights abuses and bureaucratic ineptitude ruined these efforts.

It explains that "what causes the distress is bureaucratic ineptitude and a cultural gap between a traditional community and a modern, technologically-advanced, highly-competitive nation."

It is but the latest chapter in the chronicle of bureaucratic ineptitude that spans three decades.

Chinese officials also admitted to major underreporting of cases, which were attributed to bureaucratic ineptitude.

Some of the civilians attributed their delayed training and departure to bureaucratic ineptitude and infighting among the nation's military and security agencies.

Later, military failures and bureaucratic ineptitude soon turned large segments of the population against the government.

And so much bureaucratic ineptitude.

"It is a culture of bureaucratic ineptitude that is trapping hundreds of families in the system," Mr. Banks said.

So why are social and economic reforms allowed to remain entangled in bureaucratic ineptitude, labor union intransigence and Government indifference?