Word: militiaization
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...always in agreement about whether they should separate -- and they do not always have a choice. Desanka Blacic, 36, a Serb, turned up hysterical and penniless in Belgrade last week with her three-year-old son, having fled the Bosnian village of Kastilj. Her husband, a member of a militia protecting the self-proclaimed Serbian state within Bosnia, had told her, "Just get out, go anywhere." She tried to compel her 13-year-old son to leave with her, but he refused. "If Father is killed here," the boy said, "I want to die with him." Just recounting that story...
...hopes that the proclamation of a shrunken Yugoslavia might prove a key to peace died within days. In the name of protecting the Serb minority in Bosnia, predominantly Serb army troops and local militia poured artillery shells into towns and fought pitched battles with Croats and Slavic Muslims in the capital, Sarajevo. The recent fighting in Bosnia has added at least 300 deaths to the 10,000 killed -- the bulk of them in Croatia -- since Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence last spring. The federal army has withdrawn from Slovenia, and in Croatia the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping force...
Yeltsin's words rang true on the streets of Moscow last week when communists and ultra-nationalists clashed with police during an antigovernment demonstration. Despite outnumbering the 5,000 demonstrators 2 to 1, city militia and riot police responded with billy clubs when the crowd broke their cordons. The clashes left 20 policemen and seven civilians injured...
...decisions are made by the Kurdistan Front, which consists of eight major groups. To create something closer to civil administration, Kurdistan will hold elections on April 3 for its national assembly, which Saddam originally set up just for show. The vote "is also to end the rule of the militias," says Massoud Barzani, head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, the other leading political movement. "When the militia rules, the law does not." But a U.S. analyst fears that instead of burying dissension, the vote may actually accentuate...
...military command, which Israel holds responsible for such atrocities as the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Still, Israel entertained hopes that he might pursue a more moderate course, since he had close ties to Iran's more pragmatic leaders. But attacks by his militia on Israeli targets only increased. After two previous failed attempts on his life, the Israelis hit him last week because he was there, just where they knew he would be when he publicized his plans to attend a memorial service in the village of Jibshit. "There is a legitimate principle called settling...