Word: militiamen
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...became embroiled in hostilities with two black African rebel groups based in the vast western region of Darfur. In order to undermine potential rebel support, Khartoum is prosecuting a brutal ‘scorched-earth’ policy against Darfur’s Blacks. Khartoum has armed nomadic Arab militiamen, the Janjaweed, who are carrying out the atrocities in conjunction with official Sudanese government forces...
...Coalition troops under fire in Baghdad, Najaf, Kufa, Nasiriyah, Amara and Basra. Eight Americans and one allied soldier were killed in the fighting and 36 were wounded; the death toll among Iraqis was almost 50, with hundreds wounded. Fighting raged on Monday in Baghdad as U.S. troops clashed with militiamen loyal to the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The new uprising would not be tolerated and would be suppressed, warned U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Monday. Hours later, the Coalition announced an arrest warrant had been issued for Sadr. But the cleric had already told his supporters that...
...Haiti's Monsters In "A Battle of Cannibals and Monsters," on the insurrection in Haiti [Feb. 23], you noted that the pro-government Clean Sweep militiamen are called chim?res, which is Creole for mythical monsters. In Greek mythology, the Chimera are fire-breathing monsters. Metaphorically, the word is used today to mean a fancy or unrealizable dream. Apparently, this is a very appropriate word to describe deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's thugs, both in being monsters and in pursuing the unrealizable dream of keeping him in power. Paris Vangelatos Casablanca
...troops have stepped back, Shi'ite and Kurd political parties are relying on their own armed militias to step in. Especially after Tuesday's bloodbath, no one feels safe enough to disarm. Gun-toting Shi'ite militiamen clad in black flooded the bomb-scarred neighborhoods of Karbala and Baghdad, setting up checkpoints and clearing the streets. Thousands of Shi'ites are under arms, divided into two major groups. One, the Jaish al-Mahdi, is aligned with the firebrand radical Muqtada al-Sadr and posts its secretive fighters at his Baghdad strongholds. "Every day people are coming in to volunteer," Sheik...
...protected. The entrance to the town is blocked by armed guards from Port-au-Prince's special security unit. Members of the pro-government organization Clean Sweep walk freely around St. Marc with Uzis and revolvers. After a recent uprising in the city was quashed, locals say, Clean Sweep militiamen--called chimeres, Creole for mythical monsters--went after opposition leaders. "They chased and shot at the rebels like they were target practice," said a witness. And so the battle lines up in Haiti: Cannibals vs. monsters...