Word: guerrillas
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...Others counter that G.A.M.?with its classic guerrilla tactics and extensive local support?is far from being a spent force. Matt Davies, a former Indonesia analyst for Australia's Department of Defence who is working on a book about Aceh, says the military may have killed as few as 600-700 separatists. He adds that the security forces may have reported only 10% of their own casualties, which would mean that the two sides have suffered similar losses. As evidence of G.A.M.'s resilience, Davies and others note that none of its senior officials have been captured and that...
Fahrenheit 9/11 is necessarily less personal than Bowling for Columbine and lacks its freewheeling gusto. But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year. In Moore, the American left already had its canniest Bush ambusher, its savviest guerrilla entertainer and its most colorful film-festival ambassador. After Cannes, make that "king...
...young Ernesto Guevara (Garcia Bernal) and his friend Alberto Grenado (Rodrigo de la Serna) took from Argentina through Latin America on an old Norton 500 motorbike in 1952. The film was meant to show the burgeoning social awareness of the two men, one of whom became Che the guerrilla, the other a doctor in Havana. But all it proved was that a couple of upper-middle-class boys, who were too stubborn to wire their parents for money, met a lot of downtrodden but good-looking women...
...world's poorest countries; its neighbor Australia (pop. 20 million) is among the richest. In their efforts to negotiate a permanent legal fence in the Timor Sea, the difference in firepower and tactics could hardly be greater. It is as if a small guerrilla force was facing an opponent that could call in air strikes at any moment. So far, the engagement has produced only bad blood and rancor...
...million Number of civilians in Colombia displaced by violence arising from drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare, the largest human-rights crisis in the western hemisphere, according...