Word: militiamen
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James Nachtwey, TIME: "I assumed the army would come up and arrest the ((militiamen)) and take them to the hospital. No one thought they were going to be killed. We thought they were safe because we were there, ((that)) they wouldn't shoot them with cameras around. It was totally unreasonable...
...weeks ago, the world's media were flooded with bloody, unforgettable images from South Africa: two white, neo-Nazi militiamen -- wounded in a gun battle with black troops in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- were executed in front of a crowd of stunned photojournalists. What was it like to record this brutal scene? Time's Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod asked several of the photographers involved...
...public think the U.S. should engage in disarming the warlords. But Clinton advisers fear the whole U.N. mission would collapse if the U.S. military backbone were withdrawn, returning Somalia to anarchy and famine. "Our sense is to keep picking away one lieutenant here, one bunch of militiamen there," says a Clinton official. "If we keep up the pressure, we'll eventually get there...
...heights of Mount Igman and Mount Bjelasnica overlooking the city, Serb militiamen appeared to take heed. Making a show of fulfilling Karadzic's original promise to pull back, troops began to move off the mountainsides, accompanied by tanks, trucks and jeeps. As they left, they apparently set fire to several ski lodges. In the town of Trnovo, southeast of Sarajevo, hundreds of grimy soldiers lined up for tourist buses that would carry them away from the peaks they had captured after 10 days of heavy fighting. Some displayed the souvenirs of victory: a Bosnian flag, a helmet with an inscription...
...uses military force in Bosnia, he cannot know whether he will succeed. If he bombs the Bosnian Serbs, their brethren across the Drina River in Serbia proper might heed the call of blood and join them for a war of annihilation against the Muslims. Or the Serbian militiamen who now bestride 70% of Bosnia may simply dig in and refuse either to negotiate or pull back...