Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop flying his planes in airspace north of the 36th parallel. The refugees came down from the mountains and tried to put their lives back together. But after most of the allied security forces left last summer, the Iraqis rushed into action to subdue the Kurds and their armed guerrilla units, the peshmerga...
Unless Habash is very ill, said the President, "his stay will be extremely brief." And so it was. After doctors said the guerrilla leader was unable to talk, a magistrate who had ordered police to hold him for questioning rescinded the order. At that, Habash decided to skip further treatment. He hurried to Orly airport on Saturday and flew back to his home in Tunis...
...torn El Salvador, Fisher led separate negotiation workshops to end bitter feuding between FMLN guerrilla leaders and the government of Alfredo Cristiani...
...guides, Mui Van Pin, was the leader of a nearby guerrilla detachment in 1965. During questioning at Phu Yen the day before, he had clearly remembered burying the two airmen three days after the crash -- a delay caused by a dispute between two neighboring villages over which should get the credit for two dead enemies. But the newly discovered witness, Phe, distinctly recalled burying both men the day after the crash, in separate graves, even though the regular soldiers were ready to put them in a common grave. "I am a member of the Thai minority," he explained...
...concerns. How are men to know what the rules are when they appear to be ever changing? At what point does misunderstanding become a crime? If the charges prove false, how does a man retrieve his good name? Are women, feeling victims of gender crimes, fighting back in a guerrilla war with weapons that men cannot defend themselves against...