Word: militia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Francois Karera was the prefect of Greater Kigali, a man whose incitement of the militia that butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi makes him one of Rwanda's most notorious war criminals. He now calls himself director of food distribution for the Rwandan Refugee Social Affairs Committee. "The population," he says, "has to be with their government. We are here to protect them from infiltrators. We are their family...
...head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier bit the head off one of the birds. Nearby about 2,000 Haitians looted a warehouse belonging to Port-au-Prince police...
...refugees that if they return to their homes, they will not suffer reprisals for the massacres of up to 500,000 Tutsi. Barely four months ago, this same stadium was crammed with tens of thousands of Tutsi men, women and children waiting to be slaughtered by Hutu soldiers and militia...
...central Havana last week, all ferry passengers were being searched with metal detectors. Security and vigilance have been heightened in the weeks since three harbor ferries were hijacked by Cubans hoping to reach Florida. Police and civilian militia patrolled the docks, and all around the bay shipping companies had taken on armed guards to keep their vessels from being stolen. At Hemingway Marina, which plays host to the annual Hemingway deep-sea fishing tournament, the tourist boats were under guard by police...
Though he is a Hutu, the former government's militia came to kill him in May because, Munyanziza says, he was not a member of the ruling party. The hit squad dumped him into a pit and threw rocks on him, but a friend rescued him. His next-door neighbor, Albert Rurangirwa, also a Hutu, is back in his house too, after fleeing in May. He learned that his father had been killed by militia, and "I don't even know where to look for my brothers and sisters." But since they all returned last month, says Munyanziza, "there have...