Word: militiaman
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...defensive posture into vigilante justice. In June, 11 Muslims were shot dead by a posse of gunmen while praying at the al-Furqan mosque in Narathiwat province. Official speculation first centered on Muslim radicals turning against their own. Later, though, police issued an arrest warrant for a Buddhist militiaman from the neighboring village, where a rubber tapper had been killed the day before...
...tactics on both sides, however, threaten to alienate Iranians who do not want to see another bloody revolution in their lifetime. There is still shock at seeing blog postings revealing personal information about Basij members - in one instance the mobile number and address of a militiaman with the implicit suggestion that protesters exact revenge...
...have no fear." There was also some clumsily, stage-managed propaganda. Several Congolese army deserters gave testimony at Nkunda's prompting on how they had switched sides after realizing justice was on the rebels' side. Then a rag-tag thief and a former Mai Mai militiaman were also wheeled out before the crowd to testify that his old group was to blame for looting and attacking civilians, not Nkunda's men. If anything, such crude attempts at image management only enhance Nkunda's poor reputation. Asked about how he viewed the one million refugees and humanitarian crisis that his campaign...
...etchings and drawings, especially those that make up the tormented series "Disasters of War," that Goya unleashed his most powerful critiques, and these are scattered throughout the Prado show. In stinging scenes that range from a ghastly militiaman butchering his enemies with an axe to a huddle of skeletal paupers begging miserably for scraps, "Disasters" exposes the lingering effects - moral, social and physical - of violence. Even for an audience accustomed to the barrage of brutal images emanating from Iraq and Afghanistan, these works, with their rough lines and muted colors, still - amazingly - possess the power to shock...
...soldiers were several civilians wearing bandoliers of ammunition and carrying a variety of automatic rifles. They were local Lebanese villagers, many of them ex-militiamen from Lebanon's 16-year civil war, who had volunteered to fight the militants alongside the army. "No sleep for three days," said one militiaman with a grim smile...