Word: militiamen
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...necessary that the government takes out its troops first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners think, disheartened Zapatistas will give up and negotiate. Maybe, but at week's end there were no negotiations, though the army had clearly dug in for a long...
...Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...
...refugees are Karera's family, they are in trouble. A recent survey by aid workers in Goma found that food distribution was badly skewed. Former soldiers, officials and militiamen are living well, hoarding donated food and blankets and selling these supplies at high prices. At the same time, nearly half the camp population -- notably the elderly, women and children -- are not getting enough food to ward off malnutrition...
Attempts to bypass the former officials have met with failure or worse. Shortly before Banville was forced to leave, several dozen Rwandan Boy Scouts who had been assigned by aid agencies to provide security at the Katale camp ! were attacked by militiamen wielding clubs and machetes; at least 18 of the youngsters are missing and presumed dead...
Another warning of danger outside the wire-rimmed islet of peace sounded in the north, where militiamen, presumably from the Muslim extremist group Hizballah, in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israeli troops. And in the Gaza Strip the Palestine Liberation Organization's leader Yasser Arafat, with whom Israel made peace last year, called a general strike. He was protesting a clause in the treaty that lends weight to Jordan's claim to protect Jerusalem's Muslim holy places...