Even after making repeated pleas to the authorities, the citizens of Gaunaha still hadn't received their rightful pension.

On 14 May 2016, as many as 3,000 beneficiaries were called to a community gathering in Gaunaha and were given their due arrears.

(The case was settled out of court last year, with royalties paid to Amazon.com.)

That 800k should have come directly from their pockets for their stupid, inhumane, bullying behaviour.

According to the Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie (CNAM), over 237 million Euros of daily compensation were paid in 2006.

But no one really expects the debts to be paid anyway.

The Advisory Committee, in responding to the request, noted that voluntary contributions pledged and which were expected to be paid shortly, exceeded the commitment authority sought.

In the Indian context, black money means undeclared incomes or assets earned through legal or illegal means, for which income and other taxes have not been paid.

The bails have been paid and we have completed the formalities with the Public Prosecution and the police station and Ahmed Abdelrahman has left the police car and has been in the police station for a long period of time.

An independent expert panel would review the national plans to verify their scientific and managerial coherence.

Assuming that a plan passes muster, the money to support it would quickly be disbursed.

As a result, despite warnings by several IMF Directors in May 2010 that restructuring was inevitable, the US supported the European position that private creditors needed to be paid in full. nbsp

The private company Msumbiji Investment Limited, the company of the Guebuza family where the son of former president, Mussumbuluku Guebuza, is the CEO, mediated the deal which cost around 140 million US dollars to public funds, eighty percent of which was paid in commissions.

Second, if the holdouts are paid in full, the majority of creditors who accepted a haircut can request to be paid in full, too.

Knowing the amount of wealth stolen and squandered by Obasanjo's predecessors, such as General Sani Abacha, and by the Suharto kleptocracy in Indonesia, pleas for such relief may not be welcomed easily.

Yet Western leaders must recognize that if these states fall apart, their debts will never be paid and, inevitably, creditor countries will face vast additional costs.

Certainly, a key part of the solution is to allow more banks to fail, ensuring that depositors are paid off in full, but not necessarily debt holders.

We were forced to do that.

The US representatives were perplexed the Europeans were shocked.

There have been apologies, but they have not been effective.

Some of the people who came were former prisoners, but of course some were also guards.

Insurance policies that clearly specify the amounts that will be paid and the types of damage that will be covered are far better than the government administered, after the fact bailout that many people seem to have expected.

Bank runs occur when people, worried that their deposits will not be honored, hastily withdraw their money, thereby creating the very bankruptcy that they feared.

And there were meetings.

Everyone was there.

There were survivors.

There were witnesses.

Were there any witnesses?

Were there any problems?

Were there any survivors?

Have there been consequences?

There have been exceptions.

There were problems.

There were errors.

There were questions.

There was screaming.

There was shouting.

These were the only sincere words that had passed between them.

A funeral was delayed, airplanes stranded, roads were closed.

Mars had rivers, Mars had lakes, but more important Mars had planetary scale oceans.

We was so, so stupid. The most stupid bacteria.

And yes, they were Yugoslavs, and they were Bosnians.

Villages were burned.

Debate was heated.

But the signs were there.