Word: militiaization
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...central Europe and six countries were fighting a bloody war of attrition for Germany’s natural resources. Suppose that Italy’s opposition leader was kidnapping children en masse and cutting off their hands if they refused to murder their parents and join his anti-government militia. Imagine that the Swiss government had fallen and a warlord from Geneva was stopping United Nations food rations from reaching a starving people. And imagine that such tumult was unfolding against a backdrop of an incurable epidemic—one that had already infected one quarter of the entire European...
...fate of five other North Korean defectors seized by Chinese police in the grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan demanded the Chinese hand them back, but talks over their fate stalled, straining already tense relations. EAST TIMOR New Nation Almost three years after residents braved a hostile militia to vote for independence, the former Indonesian territory prepared to become a sovereign nation on May 20. To help it on its way, donors representing 27 countries and organizations pledged a total of $440 million in aid, but the country will still rank as one of the poorest...
...easily available. Last Monday, the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position on the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” reinterpreting it as an individual right to own guns rather than a collective right to bear arms in a militia. Ashcroft’s policy reversal confirms many concerns about his appointment and verifies the National Rifle Association’s boast during the 2000 election that it would be working out of the Bush White House...
...face of the Supreme Court’s last decision on the Second Amendment. In the 1939 case United States vs. Miller, the court established that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms only with some reasonable relationship to the preservation of efficiency of a well-regulated militia. In fulfilling his oath of office, Ashcroft must respect that the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court is “the supreme law of the land.” He should encourage the Justice Department to follow the justices’ directive and not push his own personal...
...When village leader Phandari describes the Maoist system of execution, he speaks with the ease of a man freed from the burden of conscience. First, he says, a villager will lodge a complaint about a person to the People's Militia, a group of seven to 12 cadres that patrols the village. "We do not execute them immediately," he says. "The militia gives notice to the person that they must reform. We can give three ultimatums. But if they do not change, then we execute them. Sometimes, we use torture?it depends on the interests of the people." The village...