Word: militiaization
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...Lebanon, the Israeli forces were largely gone, but the impasse continued between the United Nations peacekeeping forces and the Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian militia known as the South Lebanon Army. Two weeks ago, the S.L.A. had seized 25 Finnish soldiers of the U.N. force, released three of them and taken the others to the Christian town of Marjayoun. It refused to let them go until eleven of its own members had been handed over by the Shi'ite Amal militia. The S.L.A. accused the U.N. force, which does not recognize the S.L.A. as an independent militia and customarily disarms...
...that the Israelis, if they chose to do so, could have ended the incident quickly by putting pressure on the S.L.A. The situation took a comic turn late in the week when the eleven S.L.A. men, all of whom happened to be Shi'ites in an overwhelmingly Christian militia, told U.N. and Red Cross officials that they had no desire to return to the S.L.A. Confronted with this information, the S.L.A. commander, General Antoine Lahd, released the Finnish soldiers the next...
Further tension arose in the area late last week as an Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian militia known as the South Lebanon Army kidnaped 25 Finnish soldiers of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. According to an Israeli communique quoting the S.L.A., the action came in response to the earlier capture of eleven S.L.A. members by the Finnish soldiers. The communique went on to say that the U.N. troops had taken the S.L.A. men away in vehicles belonging to the Shi'ite Amal militia...
...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
...should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting has been going on for weeks among several Lebanese factions, and last week bitter clashes erupted between the Shi'ite Amal militia and Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know exactly what started the latest confrontation, but the significance was obvious: the Lebanese Shi'ites, the largest population group in the country, remember the steely grip the P.L.O. maintained over southern Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion, and are determined that the Palestinians never regain...