Word: militiaization
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...armed the mineworkers, traditionally the most leftist group in Bolivia, with rifles and organized them into local militia units. And, correctly assessing the potential of the dormant masses in the countryside, MNR representatives moved into the towns and villages around La Paz and Cochabamba to awake the peasants to an awareness of the injustices they had suffered for so long. Were the peasants to continue to work as slaves, the MNR asked, to put meat on the tables of the hacendados, the large estate owners, while they themselves had to eat potatoes...
...Peking, foreign residents worried about rising xenophobia; distrust of foreigners was also one of the aspects of the Cultural Revolution. They already have cause to be concerned. Last week a sullen crowd of Chinese hauled two French residents of Peking off to the local militia station after they aimed their cameras at women shoveling snow. The Frenchmen had been mistaken for "Soviet spies," police explained after releasing them...
...outskirts of Suez, swarms of soldiers and civilians in militia uniforms were waiting to meet us. They happily cut loose with machine-gun and rifle fire into the air. Groups of ten or 20 in tur bans and long gallabiyas stood on wrecked enemy tanks that marked the farthest Israeli penetration into Suez. They waved Egyptian flags, along with olive and palm branches, and chanted: "Welcome to Suez. Salute the heroes who destroyed 32 Israeli tanks." An old man, a cage of pigeons at his feet and a cup of tea in his hand, flashed a toothless grin and chanted...
...angered by criticism from reformers, the empress dowager threw her support to the Boxers, fanatical militia forces that were inspired by superstition and attributed all of China's ills to "foreign devils" and their Christian converts. On June 20, the Manchu regime declared war on the foreign powers; by August 14, the allied forces of eight powers took Peking...
That is anathema to the Perónist left, which has demanded that the army's internal-security functions be carried out by a popular militia...