Word: militiaization
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...journalists' guide (a role he had also performed for TIME in January 2003) is a member of a small underground network inside Laos known as the Blackbirds. Supported by Lao communities living in the U.S., the Blackbirds have provided food and clothing to a few thousand descendants of a militia, mainly made up of Hmong, that once helped the U.S. fight the communists during the Vietnam...
...peaceful masses." MUQTADA AL-SADR, Shi'ite cleric, in a recorded statement, after agreeing to a peace deal brokered by Iraq's top Shi'ite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to end three weeks of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi troops, and al-Sadr's Mahdi militia...
...kill all blacks and even kill our cattle when they have black calves." JANJAWEED MILITIA MEMBER, as quoted by a refugee from Darfur, Sudan, in a U.S. report investigating whether the militia's actions there constitute genocide...
...national conference that met last week to name an interim legislature. Delegates who were supposed to focus on participation in the democratic process found their business eclipsed by the crisis in Najaf. A conference delegation trooped there hoping to talk al-Sadr into leaving the shrine and transforming his militia into a political movement, only to be refused an audience with the cleric. The next day, he said he might be willing to comply, then said he would seek "victory or martyrdom," then turned accommodating again...
...Allawi had lost patience with all the tense back and forth. He issued a "final call" for al-Sadr to leave the shrine compound and disband his militia. And for hours that night, U.S. planes dropped bombs, gunships strafed rebel positions near the shrine, and tanks shelled militia hideaways as explosions filled the sky over the Old City with billowing smoke and a deadly orange glow. U.S. military commanders said they were merely "shaping the battlefield" in case a frontal assault was ordered. But al-Sadr is adept at divining when to back down. On Friday he promised to "turn...