"What we are seeing is a dramatic ratcheting up of a counter-insurgency policy in the name of counterdrug policy."

Around a million people became displaced from towns and villages in south-eastern Turkey during the 1980s and 1990s as a result of the insurgent actions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the counter-insurgency policies of the Turkish government.

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This new counter-insurgency policy debuted with Plan LAZO in 1964.

To counter the guerilla campaign the British - under first Roberts and then Kitchener - adopted a scorched-earth counter-insurgency policy.

In the aftermath of the rebellion, the young officer witnessed Arredondo's fierce counter-insurgency policy of mass executions.

In June 2008, HRW criticized the lack of Western condemnation of Meles' counter-insurgency policy and the military activities by Ethiopian Defence forces in reaction to ONLF's attacks.

The new counter-insurgency policy was instituted as Plan Lazo in 1962 and called for both military operations and civic action programs in violent areas.

The new counter-insurgency policy must be given time to show results, there should be a political solution and negotiations with all sides should take place.

It welcomes 'new counter-insurgency policy', adopts President Obama's timetable, calls for closer identification by the EU with NATO and the USA and recognises the efficacy of and need for troops to remain and secure the area.