Word: militiamen
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...late August, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for a U.N. peacekeeping [an error occurred while processing this directive]force to deploy across the region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed in three years of fighting between rebel groups and government-backed Janjaweed militiamen, whom human-rights groups and the U.S. accuse of murdering, raping, looting and even genocide. But Sudan's government in Khartoum has said U.N. troops are not welcome, and warned that the existing African Union force must leave by the end of this month, when its mandate runs out. Humanitarian...
...Monday Sadr's Shi'ite militia ambushed Iraqi Army soldiers in the southern city of Diwaniya and killed about 25 of them in the ensuing battle. According to a U.S. military official at least eight civilians also died. Reports on the number of militiamen killed varied wildly, with early reports claiming as few as five and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki claiming...
...also be a casualty of the battle, or at least its aftermath. The fight, in essence, put him and his government's claims to have a viable path to a national reconciliation plan to the test: either they are prepared to fight costly battles to defeat committed Shi'ite militiamen, or they are willing to cede control of neighborhoods and cities to the militias. In Diwaniya, it now seems, the government has chosen the path of least resistance, gaining a measure of calm in the city on Sadr's terms...
...Babikir emphatically declared that no one with sectarian loyalties had a place in the Iraqi armed forces. Yet beyond the high walls and earthen barriers that make Iraqi officers and politicians prisoners in their own country, many militiamen operate - sometimes openly - within the Iraqi security forces. And in neighborhoods like Sadr City militias, and not the government, command the support of the people...
...responsibility for consolidating the "gains" achieved by military operations falls to the Iraqi police - a force that is not only poorly trained and equipped but is also thoroughly infiltrated by militiamen more loyal to their Shi'ite religious leaders than to the Interior Ministry that pays their salaries. U.S. officials concede that several of the national police brigades that operate in Baghdad are led by officers of criminal or sectarian tendencies...