Word: kalashnikovs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just two days before Stepashin was fired, some 1,500 Islamic militants armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, bazookas, self-propelled antiaircraft guns and armor marched into Dagestan from Chechnya. The move was the latest, most violent shot in a creeping war that has been ravaging Dagestan since Russia's invasion of Chechnya in 1994. Russian federal forces have been continually engaged in action against Chechen raiders eager to see the coastal province of Dagestan annexed into land-locked Chechnya. The province is of vital strategic importance to Russia, representing 70% of the nation's frontage on the oil-producing Caspian...
...Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded by flower beds full of dead tulips. A flagpole bears the Albanian flag...
...most of the R.U.F. leaders had been killed in the previous few weeks of fighting, most rebel positions in the city were held by 15- and 16-year-old boys, who looted and burned huge swaths of downtown. ECOMOG forces patrolling Freetown's main streets were continually harassed by Kalashnikov-wielding teenagers who slipped from dark alleys, machine-gunned them for 15 or 30 seconds and then slipped away again. After sunset the teenagers, many of them high on local hallucinogens, set houses on fire--night candles, they called them--to ward off the fearful dark...
...this oppression? In the name of order, holiness and purity! Coordinating the crackdown is the "General Department for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," complete with Kalashnikov-carrying religious police who patrol the streets in pick-up trucks flying white flags, the symbol of purity. Aside from killing women who venture out alone to save their dying children, the religious police have lots of duties. They make sure all males grow mandatory beards (violators are locked up for 10 days of "religious instruction"), enforce the ban on music (too hedonistic) and confiscate television sets (the holiness...
...TIME, April 13). The Palestinian Authority maintains Sharif was shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif's chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts say the bullets were never fired from a gun and were probably part of the debris sent flying when Sharif accidentally triggered a bomb he was making. The bullets did have some...