Word: militiaization
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...Other ruins line the lane like broken teeth, reminders of what happened last time the East Timorese went to the polls. When a huge majority voted two years ago for independence from Indonesia, pro-Jakarta militiamen repaid them with a frenzy of destruction across the country. On referendum day, militia members whispered threats through frightened voting queues. "There were spies behind our backs," says Sister Carmelita Martins, who lives in the coastal village of Maubara, west of Dili. "We ran home after we had voted...
...Powell's visit ended, and Israel said that the truce would begin on the first violence-free day. NIGERIA Ethnic Flare-Up Ethnic violence erupted in central Nigeria after the killing of a local leader. More than 50 people were killed in an attack on the Egon community by militia from the Tiv ethnic group. Up to 50,000 people fled their homes after a series of revenge attacks. Ethnic and religious unrest has racked Nigeria since it returned to democracy two years ago. CHINA Safe Harbor China granted safe passage to a North Korean family of seven who sought...
...have triggered the beginnings of that by-now familiar Balkan ritual of "ethnic cleansing." The rebels reportedly expelled some 600 non-Albanians from the villages they captured on Sunday, while elsewhere in Macedonia ethnic-Albanian business owners have shut up shop and fled following threats by a shadowy Macedonian militia group. And if the chain of "ethnic cleansing" is allowed to gather momentum, Macedonia will effectively be in the grip of a civil war whose outcome will likely realize the rebels' original objective of partitioning the country - and drawing NATO into yet another permanent peacekeeping operation...
SENTENCED. FOUR RWANDANS, including two Catholic nuns; to prison terms of 12 to 20 years; for their roles in the 1994 Hutu extermination of the Tutsi in Rwanda; in Brussels. The nuns turned over as many as 7,000 people seeking refuge in their convent to the Hutu militia...
...admit that the Astor Place activism got out of hand. A force of citizen militia was called for Macready's next performance, on May 10. An immense crowd gathered outside the theater, as many as ten thousand people. The militia fired warning shots in the air, and then panicked and fired into the crowd. Twenty-two people were killed and fifty were wounded. That's a fairly large butcher's bill to pay for a dispute over interpretations of Shakespeare...