Word: militiaization
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...south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...
...Second Amendment says that a well-regulated militia is necessary, and that the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. In no way can the Second Amendment be twisted to read, "A well-regulated militia no longer being necessary to preserve a free state, the rights of citizens to bear arms shall not be infringed as long as they are rich, politically connected or friends of the local police chief." As silly as such an interpretation sounds, it is essentially what Sarah Brady and Handgun Control Inc. are working...
...correct--the right to own a gun is constitutionally protected, for the purpose of maintaining a well-regulated militia. In the early days of the United States, an armed populace was vital to the raising of an army in an emergency. An armed population could also defend itself if the government began to encroach on its liberties...
...shield. I will remain in Srebrenica as long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force and not to take sides, and he stuck firmly -- perhaps too firmly -- to those instructions...