Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost because, in sending troops 8,000 miles from home, its government committed three errors: it exaggerated the threat posed by a monolithic, expansionist Red Menace; it overestimated the popular support and staying power of its corrupt ally in Saigon; and it underestimated the inherent advantage a guerrilla force has in fighting on and for its own territory. In short, America was thinking globally and acting locally, but getting it wrong both ways...
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND THEIR U.S. PATRONS repeatedly denied it. But when a team of forensic anthropologists excavated nearly 60 of several hundred battered skeletons from around a demolished church in what was once an F.M.L.N. guerrilla stronghold, they found convincing evidence of what some journalists and human-rights activists have said for years: as many as 800 civilians, most of them women and children, were mutilated, burned and < murdered in and around the remote northeastern town of El Mozote in 1981, by soldiers from the Salvadoran army's U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion...
...dragged Menchu's mother away, held her captive and raped her repeatedly. After torturing her, they left her under a tree to die of her wounds. Menchu tried to live in hiding but soon had to flee the country; two of her sisters went to the mountains to join guerrilla forces there. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the 30-year rebellion against Guatemala's successive repressive governments. Security forces are blamed for as many as 50,000 deaths, mostly highland Indians, during the counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s...
...Nobel Committee considered the possibility that it might seem to be honoring an advocate of guerrilla warfare but rejected the idea. Sejersted said the panel had left "no leaf unturned" in investigating her career. He did not claim that every single action she had ever taken was pacific, but "it is our clear conclusion that her long-term goal is peace...
...rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...