Word: militiamen
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...American, too comfortably nested in our native illusions. The glorification of the amateur and contempt for the professional are as old as Jefferson and as new as the push for term limits. Jefferson Smith, with his army of Boy Rangers, must be Ross Perot's favorite daydream. Militiamen and others who suspect the government and all "elites" of conspiracy or collusion will find confirmation of their views here. A whole race of phonies can be undone by one "genuine" American. "And a little child shall lead them...
...just militiamen wearing fatigues who are disgusted with it; alienation has joined the mainstream, fueling tax revolts and home schooling and the growth of private-security forces. Joanna Daub, mother of two and a nurse assistant in Grand Junction, Colo., still can't get over the time the inspector from the bureau of weights and measures wouldn't let her sell her extra peaches at the farmers' market because she didn't have a regulation scale. "I had this old postal scale, you know, which was working fine. I wasn't trying to cheat anybody or anything," she says...
...over the weekend to nearby Kinshasa, Congo, the U.S. Embassy is desperately trying to negotiate a cease-fire so that some two dozen American citizens holed up in the embassy compound can reach the airport and flights out. The evacuation efforts are taking place amid continued intensive fighting between militiamen loyal to deposed military leader Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso and beleagured troops loyal to President Pascal Lissouba who are struggling for control of Brazzaville. Bracing itself for the worst, France, which has already lost one soldier in the clash, today deployed roughly 500 soldiers, equipped with armed vehicles, to Brazzaville...
...world, diplomats were crossing their fingers. A Tutsi offensive had driven Hutu forces westward into Zaire, potentially forcing the Hutu militias to relinquish control of the bursting Mugunga refugee camp that has served as a barren purgatory to more than 1 million people, and as cover for thousands of militiamen hiding from their enemies. A significant exodus would greatly ease the need for the U.N. humanitarian and military intervention that has been hurriedly assembled over the past few days. Refugees said some Hutu troops had fired into the air to stop the refugees from leaving, but they were overwhelmed...
...over Rwanda in 1994, when Hutu extremists butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, hacking many of them to death with machetes. Fearing Tutsi revenge, 1.7 million Hutu then fled their homes. Those who eventually clustered in Zaire's teeming camps, however, were no ordinary refugees; they included thousands of militiamen, government officials and soldiers dodging punishment for their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their struggle to overthrow the Tutsi-dominated government that replaced them...