Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...internal unrest, the most prolonged in the country's history. And though many were troubled by the government's handling of the eleven-month-old state of emergency, under which 20,000 people have been detained without trial, they were even more concerned about the possibility of an escalating guerrilla war. Some whites might quarrel with the legality of an occasional South African raid on a neighboring country to strike at the black liberation movement, but the majority obviously approved of such actions. The last days of the campaign were marked by violence surrounding a strike by transport workers...
...Half a dozen jets flew out of the northwest, dropped parachute flares to deflect heat-seeking missiles, and then began their bombing runs. Mujahedin 12.7-mm and 14.5-mm heavy machine guns opened fire from the surrounding mountains, shooting in wide arcs across the sky. At the guerrilla base, Commander Khan Emir and about 20 of his men stood defiantly on an open knoll, firing at the jets with AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers. Other nearby guerrilla bases have small numbers of American-made Stinger antiaircraft missiles, but the mujahedin at Spina Bora have not received...
This is a bitter war, one without rules or limits. In early April, according to the mujahedin, the Soviets used poison gas in an attack on guerrilla antiaircraft positions. Hoja Inatullah, 19, says he nearly died of asphyxiation, surviving only by wetting his blanket and breathing through it. "For four or five hours afterward, I had trouble breathing," he says. "My friends carried me to the bomb shelter, and I lay there spitting up black fluid." In such a conflict, justice can be harsh for captured invaders. Said a young guerrilla named Ismail: "We won't shoot them. Bullets...
...guerrillas say they have even begun striking across the border into the Soviet Union in recent months. Says one commander, who claims to have participated in the cross-border raids: "Uzbek-speaking and Tadzhik-speaking Russians help us, giving us food, shelter and information. After our latest attacks inside Russia, the Soviets executed many Asian Russians for helping us." He claims that some Muslim Russians are now forming their own armed guerrilla groups. Says he: "We are making an increased effort to incite an uprising in Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan...
...face of Slotnick's guerrilla tactics, Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples pressed on with the quiet demeanor of a man who believes that the facts and Goetz's own words will lead inescapably to a conviction. At midweek Waples played a two-hour tape recording made by the detectives who questioned Goetz when he surrendered to them in Concord, N.H. In it, Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said...