Word: guerrillas
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From his earliest days, Kagame has been caught up in the country's turmoil. Born in southern Rwanda, he was taken to Uganda at the age of two when his parents fled anti-Tutsi pogroms. He grew up in a refugee camp. After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died...
Moreover, the United States has a long history of intervention in the region that many have not forgotten. The "attaches" have pledged to take to the hills and conduct guerrilla operations against U.S. troops. American forces would take casualties weekly...
...town of Jeremie on surveillance, the local army unit thought the invasion had begun and simply ran away. The paramilitary units that aid the army in terrorizing ordinary Haitians have announced that their response to an invasion will be to "evaporate" into the civilian population and begin a guerrilla war. The clandestine campaign, they say, will involve poisoning water supplies, spreading diseases among the invaders and employing voodoo powders to "incinerate the skins" of enemy troops. "We have been told to fire on civilians when the Americans come," says amember of the paramilitary group FRAPH, "and then disappear...
...previous five years in obscurity in the Soviet Union and returned to his native land dressed in the uniform of a Soviet army captain. Some people did not even believe he was who he claimed to be. Kim Il Sung? Wasn't that the name of a famous guerrilla? Didn't he die fighting the Japanese in Manchuria years before? Could this fleshy 33-year-old be that same hero? Soon, however, no one would deny him the name. When he died last week of a heart attack brought on, according to Pyongyang, by "mental strain," Kim had not only...
...Manchuria, which was then occupied, like Korea, by Japan. The truth would not have been in keeping with Kim's official cult of Korean identity and national self-sufficiency. In official history, Kim was always the Korean partisan, the Korean communist stalwart, ever on the Korean front. But his guerrilla days were spent with anti-Japanese militias set up by the Chinese. And the name Il Sung, a common one among the fighters, may have been bestowed on him by comrades in one of those Chinese-led armies...