Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bork and D'Elia arrived in the border city of Peshawar. Pakistan February 28, where they made contact with members of the "Moderate Alliance," a major guerilla coalition...
They arrived at a guerilla outpost just as a force of 10,000 Soviet and Afghani government troops entered the area in an attempt to relieve a garrison that had been besieged by the mujahedeen for two years...
...could boast of over four thousand executions of Resistance fighters, not to mention the deportation of close to eight thousand Jews, shipped away to certain death in the Eastern European concentration camps. But Barbie's most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind...
...military have increased over the last few months. Land reform and other positive steps undertaken by the Duarte regime that preceded the present government have been stopped, and in some cases reversed. And extreme right leader Roberto d'Aubuisson has said he will not talk with the guerilla opposition...
Revolutionaries in the African National Congress have long been in the midst of a growing guerilla war with the South African police and military. That battle, combined with economic no trade sanctions many nations have established, have weakened South Africa, as have the depressed gold market and the military economy itself. If the United States allows the billion-dollar loan next week, the president will strengthen links with a state that may be enduring a prelude to its long-awaited death throes...