Both the Umbutfo Swaziland Defense Force and the Royal Swaziland
Police operate under civilian control and are responsible for
external and internal security. Some communities questioned the
ability of the National Police to operate effectively at the
community level and have formed community police. Members of
both the National Police and the community police committed
human rights abuses. The country had a free market economy, with
relatively little government intervention; its population was
approximately 1.1 million. The majority of citizens were engaged
in subsistence agriculture and the informal marketing of
agricultural goods, although a relatively diversified industrial
sector accounted for the largest component of the formal
economy. The country depended heavily on South Africa, from
which it received almost all of its imports and to which it sent
the majority of its exports. A quasi-parastatal organization
established by royal charter, and responsible to the King,
maintained large investments in maj