Word: militiamen
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...troubles in Marivan had begun two weeks before, when a force of Islamic revolutionary militiamen called Pasdaran moved in to reimpose the government's authority on the town, which had insisted on running its own affairs. After clashes that took the lives of 13 militiamen and twelve Kurds, Marivan's 10,000 residents left for fear of government reprisals, and many set up camp in the nearby forest. When the army then dispatched a convoy including a dozen American-made M-47 tanks to reinforce the militiamen, men and women from the neighboring town of Kamyaran lay down...
...voting went surprisingly smoothly. To counter the threat by the Patriotic Front to disrupt the proceedings, the government mobilized 90,000 troops and in many cases transported voters to the polls. Muzorewa and other campaigners were accompanied by armed militiamen. Mobile voting units were trucked, under army escort, to about 1,500 of the country's 2,000 designated polling places...
...they might think I am the troublemaker. And if someone doesn't like you, he can go to the guerrillas and tell them something which isn't true and they become your enemy." Though he is a Muzorewa supporter, he was once beaten so badly by black militiamen loyal to the bishop that he had to be hospitalized; the militiamen accused him of not informing on Patriotic Front guerrillas...
...been provoked by the disaffection of a fellow Shi'ite leader, Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, who touched off a new round of violent clashes and demonstrations by withdrawing from politics as a protest against the mysterious arrests of two of his sons and a daughter-in-law by Islamic militiamen. By week's end the threat of escalation had grown so great that both men were prompted to back down. But, though the two Ayatullahs patched up their quarrel, the deep divisions that are rending the nation remained...
Fearing violence, Yazdi quickly ordered the release of Taleghani's relatives, but the militiamen refused to obey either his command or the instructions of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Not until the following morning were the prisoners, who had been kicked and beaten, released. Taleghani, who had pledged to hold Qarazi until the arrests had been explained to his satisfaction, then freed the komiteh member. Qarazi was arrested on the spot at Yazdi's order...