Word: guerrillaism
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...Rumbek In the largest such operation ever, the U.N. Children's Fund airlifted more than 2,800 demobilized child soldiers from the frontlines of the war in southern Sudan. The airlift, conducted over five days, followed a pledge last October by John Garang, leader of the guerrilla Sudan People's Liberation Army, to demobilize all of his young fighters, who ranged in age from eight to 18. unicef director Carol Bellamy called the evacuations "a marker of the growing global recognition that children should never be made instruments of adult conflicts and violence...
...oppression. At the same time, as such eminent Mexican intellectuals as historian Enrique Krauze has been pointing out, Chiapas doesn't represent all of Mexico. And then there's the question of Marcos's mandate: It isn't only political conservatives who note that, unlike Fox, the masked guerrilla leader with the poetic touch has never actually stood for election. "Fox has legitimacy," said a friend of mine from the Mexican left, as she surveyed the crowd in the Zocalo. But Marcos keeps dissing Fox, omitting his title when referring to him and questioning his motives in embracing the Indians...
There's always the old way, of course: the armed struggle, terrorism, intifadeh. But Arafat is getting a little old to lead another guerrilla war. And that way didn't work either...
...personal Force 17 commando group has taken control of the streets after fresh rumblings of discontent. Recently, an angry mob besieged a police station and set free a youth arrested by one of Arafat's officers for gun running. With each passing day the intifadeh becomes more of a guerrilla war, including armed attacks by Arafat's security men working underground. Last week in Gaza, as Sharon forged a unity government with Barak, Israel assassinated a Force 17 commander, alleging he attacked a Jewish settlement. The following day, a Gaza bus driver in Israel killed eight Israelis by ramming...
...their own troops comes long before the safety of any civilians in Kosovo, Serb or Albanian. Any action involving risk to the troops is canceled, and this trend will increase. I'm afraid we're going to see a lot more more things like this. The traditional Balkan guerrilla season is about to start in spring, and the situation is going to deteriorate. KFOR won't pack up and go. But this attack has not only exposed their ineffectiveness; it has also exposed their vulnerability...