ETAN has posted the report at this link : A SURVEY ON GANGS AND YOUTH GROUPS. Enjoy reading it! It's a great 'resource' map for the kind of groups and gangs that young people are involved in. Really quite insightful although I'm not sure if I agree that Choque is SIMPLY a youth group that runs sports activities as the author puts it. Choque does run a 'security' business and Joao Becora isn't exactly a youth leader in the most innocent sense. But i've heard from a reliable source that Joao's been largely responsible keeping Becora quite safe adn trouble-free in recent times because he's issued warning to the 'kids' to keep out of trouble.
Anyways, what's the difference between a gang and a group?
What saddened me most when reading this report was seeing the pictures of little kids giving the third finger and belonging to some of the groups, also the fact that many of the groups have bad reputation for getting drunk. You wonder what kind of influence they are growing up under and how this might affect their formation as adults.
In an effort to control the illegal activities of martial arts gangs in East Timor, the National Parliament finally enacted Law No 10 of 2008 on the regulation on the practice of martial arts. This law may be read in English on the East Timor Law Journal at http://www.eastimorlawjournal.org/East_Timor_National_Parliament_Laws/Law_10-2008-martial_arts.pdf
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