Word: militiaization
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...much about the roles top Serbian officials played in the Bosnian war, a credible assertion given that the accused killer works for Slobodan Milosevic's secret service. Though the Serbian Interior Ministry denies a connection, at least four other wanted men have been killed, including RADOVAN STOJICIC BADZA, the militia commander who became the Serbian Deputy Minister of the Interior and was gunned down last year in a pizzeria. Little wonder that the Hague's most wanted, Bosnian Serb leader RADOVAN KARADZIC and General RATKO MLADIC, remain in hiding...
...last week's cruise missile attacks on his camps, Afghanistan's Islamic leaders had a few quiet words with him. "I am angry because Osama is making anti-American statements from our soil and I stressed on him not to do so," said Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban militia's supreme leader. Bin Laden had agreed to "obey" the instructions and lie low, Omar added...
...portrayed a crisis in Sudan without adequately understanding the aid efforts of the U.S. government. Let there be no mistake: this famine was caused by protracted civil war and human-rights abuses by the Sudanese government, including support for scorched-earth militia raids in the famine zones, the bombing of relief centers and denial of access to relief supplies. These abuses have made the relief efforts in the country more difficult and dangerous. Last fall there was no possible way to predict the series of events that led to this tragic famine. USAID is the world's largest donor...
While the armies struggle, the people are trampled by wave after wave of marauders. Khartoum has been buying off rebel leaders from the south and turning them loose on their own people. Another scourge is the Popular Defense Force militia--Arab horsemen recruited as army auxiliaries who also raid southern villages, stealing cattle, shooting young men and kidnapping women and children...
Boys everywhere are frustrated, abused, and saturated with media violence. But not all of them live in places where guns are available. Says Tom Furth, a former lawyer for Mitchell Johnson: "In Jonesboro, there are little militia boys that have guns, and you have an environment that is particularly conducive to what happened. This would not have happened in Minnesota," where his ex-client was originally from. "Mitchell might have snapped there too, but in a different context." Mitchell's partner, Drew Golden, 11, was Arkansas-raised and had reportedly attended a militia camp in California...