Word: guerrillas
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...Civilians who did not bow to Japanese soldiers or who somehow displeased them were automatically slapped. Atrocities also contributed to Japanese unpopularity. The occupation police, the Kempeitai, won a reputation for torture. Occupation forces performed medical experiments on prisoners of war--or used them for target practice. Anti-Japanese guerrilla movements proliferated...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that special Muslim units have infiltrated Serb-held territory surrounding the town of Zepa, the so-called Muslim safe area under attack, and have temporarily hamstrung the massive Serb assault with a series of guerrilla attacks. The Serb campaign against the "safe areas," begun in earnest with the assault on Srebrenica last week, has already driven 30,000 women, children and elderly refugees from that city. But Ministry of Defense sources in Belgrade told TIME that the Bosnian army special units have become the major stumbling block to the Serb capture of Zepa, an isolated...
...movement trace their involvement to a key negative experience with the Federal Government. A close look at Koernke's background, however, suggests not a sharp turn but a straight line. From his teens, Koernke (who declined to be interviewed for this story) has exhibited a fascination with guns and guerrilla warfare, an intense dislike of authority, a grandiose vision of himself with an attraction to the idea of martyrdom, and, as one ally puts it, the ability to "talk until most people have turned to sand." If anything, Koernke appears to have become increasingly himself. That mix of characteristics...
...forces. But the surprise Chechen raid on Russian territory signaled that for desperate fighters like Basayev, who has lost his wife and almost all his family in the war, the grudge match with Moscow is far from over. In fact, Budyonnovsk may be the opening skirmish in a new guerrilla war, waged on the streets of towns and cities across Russia...
...city of Budyonnovsk, reportsTIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. Security has been tightened as far away as Moscow, several hundred miles to the north. "The government is deathly afraid of this," Zarakhovich reports. "They fear that this is only the beginning of what could be a long and bloody series of guerrilla attacks. They've really put the Chechens' backs to the wall, and now they have nothing left to lose." At least 42 have been killed and dozens more wounded in two days of fighting. Some 200 Chechens are holding about 1,000 residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar...