Word: disarmed
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...unlikely to be an idle threat, for each time the city has changed hands, blood has flowed freely. The Taliban first seized the city in 1997 after one Northern Alliance commander had betrayed another and invited them in. But when the local militiamen rebelled against Taliban efforts to disarm them, thousands of Taliban fighters were killed in the ensuing uprising - many of them executed by suffocation in shipping containers or being dropped alive into wells which were then bulldozed over. When the Taliban recaptured the city a year later, it exacted a terrible revenge, butchering some 6,000 Uzbek...
...process, it becomes detrimental to the goals of the political movement to condone violent extremists, and then, usually, they are self-policed into oblivion. This week the legitimate political wing of the Northern Ireland nationalist movement (Sinn Fein), for instance, asked its violent extremists (the Provos) to disarm. In Spain, ETA has targeted Basque nationalist politicians who have joined the Spanish democratic process, knowing as their power grows, the ETA’s will diminish...
...Ahmeti's announcement with some skepticism, believing that many weapons remain in rebel hands. CHECHNYA Talks About Talks In response to a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechens and Russians started talks to end the two-year war in the breakaway republic. Moscow has demanded that the rebels disarm before substantive negotiations begin...
...manufacturing the scenes at Holy Cross by insisting upon taking their children to school on a Protestant street, rather than a longer but neutral back way. They see it all as part of a campaign to force them out and divert blame for the I.R.A.'s failure to disarm. Catholic parents say the attacks are based purely on bigotry. Some parents chose the less contentious route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police increased as the week went on. "They...
...estimated 64,000 people displaced from villages in majority ethnic Albanian regions now controlled by the N.L.A. "We know this picture from Kosovo," said a black-clad elderly woman from the village of Neprosteno, near the majority ethnic Albanian city of Tetovo. "They're not going to disarm the N.L.A., they're just going to replace their old weapons with new, better ones." A sunburned younger man from the village took up the chorus: "This voluntary disarmament is a lie, they're just going to hand in their World War II guns...