Word: militiamen
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...crowd the Amarals join winds through the ruins of a house. Other ruins line the lane like broken teeth, reminders of what happened last time the East Timorese went to the polls. When a huge majority voted two years ago for independence from Indonesia, pro-Jakarta militiamen repaid them with a frenzy of destruction across the country. On referendum day, militia members whispered threats through frightened voting queues. "There were spies behind our backs," says Sister Carmelita Martins, who lives in the coastal village of Maubara, west of Dili. "We ran home after we had voted...
...have repeatedly complained to Arafat that they're exposed to great danger by Palestinian fighters who come into the area to fire at Gilo. On Monday they found themselves at the center of a pitched battle as Israeli tanks occupied the town center and imposed a curfew, while Palestinian militiamen streamed in to wage...
...Domestically, his position is very tricky. I attended the funeral in Nablus earlier this week, and the images I saw - large numbers of gunmen, militiamen riding around in trucks and so on had more than a whiff of Lebanon in the 1970s. And that's a serious problem for Arafat. When you take that rising militancy together with the anger expressed at Arafat's own administration for not protecting Palestinians fighting intifiada, it appears that his control has been severely weakened. Early on in the intifada, I believe he could have stopped it immediately if he really wanted...
...cases being investigated against the Israeli prime minister concern the 1982 massacre of some 2,000 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut by Lebanese militiamen allied with Israel. An Israeli government inquiry the following year had found Sharon "indirectly responsible" for the massacre. The current investigation is being conducted under terms of a 1993 Belgian law which allows for war crimes charges to be heard in Belgian courts no matter where the alleged offenses occurred or the nationality of either the complainants or the accused. Mr. Sharon, for his part, sees the maneuver as simply another...
...mortar and bombing attacks on Israelis are not answerable to Arafat, and they've made it abundantly clear they have no interest in observing any cease-fire agreement. Even more alarming, though, may be the open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought running gun battles with the Israelis throughout the current intifada. Last weekend, for example, Arafat ordered the disbanding of local "Popular Resistance Committees" set up throughout the West Bank and Gaza to coordinate the armed activities of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groupings. But Palestinian sources tell...