Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some provinces, especially where the government's political operatives have been tortured and killed by rebellious villagers, MiGs have been sent in on retaliatory bombing raids. But after dark, the mujahidin rule the rebel areas. "Our men bring their guns down from the mountains after the sun sets," says Abdur Rahim, a former government bureaucrat who now coordinates rebel activities out of Peshawar, a provincial capital in the northwest. "The war is like a good love af fair. All the action happens at night...
Death of a Rebel...
From Managua, a heavily armed column of Somoza's National Guardsmen, equipped with tanks and supported by rocket-firing airplanes, laid siege to the rebel positions. In the savage fighting that followed, hundreds died and more than 15,000 sought refuge in the surrounding villages. Predicted one guerrilla: "Only the dead will remain here. We will die, but we will take a lot of Guardsmen with...
...have a legal government in office and Amin is now the rebel," Lule told thousands gathered at the steps of the newly opened parliament building...
Townspeople in Jinja reported a flood of wounded soldiers from Amin's loyal units. Tanzanian and rebel commanders ordered no immediate full-scale push to the east, however...