Word: militiaization
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Certainly the tiny nation of 7 million has rebounded from the dark age of the Cedras dictatorship, when the economy lay in ruins, a brutal militia known as the attaches spread terror, and no one dared leave home after dark. Today the avenues of Port-au-Prince and other cities are teeming with life and commerce at all hours. The press is free, political parties are vigorous, and human-rights abuses are at a historic...
However, I do have some advice for all the of the Council, Guardians and Auxiliares of Peninsula (sounds like a wannabe militia, doesn't it?). If you were really as tough as you fancy yourselves to be, you would have called me what you really meant--probable nigger admit David W. Brown...
...material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point in fighting for territory that the negotiators might soon take from them anyway...
...wing panic, the 1992 shoot-out and siege at the Idaho cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver ranks second only to the inferno of the Branch Davidians the following year. Federal agents in body armor and black ninja uniforms, armored cars crashing up hillsides, even the fabled helicopters of militia nightmares-Ruby Ridge had all the elements of a paranoid fantasy, with the difference that it was stamped in real flesh and blood. In the 11-day standoff, Weaver's wife was shot dead as she held their 10-month-old daughter in her arms. A day earlier...
...Randy Weaver was awarded a $3.1 million settlement by the Justice Department. Three years ago, Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son were killed by U.S. agents in a bloody standoff at his Ruby Ridge cabin in northern Idaho. Weaver-who is something of a hero to the militia movement-was accused of killing an agent in the shootout...