Word: insurgentes
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Even if Musharraf succeeds in shutting down the extremists, of course, the Kashmir question remains to be resolved. The general made clear in his speech that the struggle for the disputed territory remains at the heart of Pakistan's national identity, although he appears to have conceded the principle that...
The point may be illustrated by an anecdote concerning the Mexican Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos. Five years ago, he was visited in his jungle redoubt by Oliver Stone. The insurgent presented the filmmaker with a ski-mask and pipe just like his own, and the two of them rode off...
For example, the adventurer planning a trip to Angola this year may be interested to read the State Department’s website that states: “Angola remains unsafe due to high intensity military actions, bandit and insurgent attacks...and land mines in rural areas.�...
Even for the non-suicidal insurgent, the allure of arms often trumps the bleak career alternatives of civilian life. From Sierra Leone and Angola to Mozambique and Somalia, many of Africa's Cold War-era guerrilla armies simply mutated into bandit gangs whose only purpose was to protect and extend...
The longer an insurgent's career, the more difficult it becomes to contemplate disarming - and that's precisely the problem with the IRA and ETA. Ireland and Spain today are two of the fastest growing economies of Europe, and young people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly...