Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people to vanish without a trace, but that's what's happened in eastern Zaire. Relief workers say several refugee camps, each of which held tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees only a few days ago, are entirely deserted -- and no one knows what happened to the people. Rebel forces had sealed the area off Monday, allegedly to protect the Rwandan Hutu refugees against rampaging villagers. When U.N. aide workers were allowed to return to the camps days later, no one was left. Refugees have abandoned the camps before, usually when rebels approached and chased them away. But always they...
LIMA, Peru: Family members of the 14 Tupac Amaru rebels killed in Tuesday's raid are protesting that they were not allowed to bury their dead. The Peruvian government said the rebels will be buried in various locations, in unmarked graves. Lawyers representing the families charge that the government is hiding the bodies to suppress evidence that some rebels were mutilated, while others were executed when they attempted to surrender. Graphic television footage of Peruvian president Fujimori?s visit to the embassy showed what appeared to be mutilated rebel bodies; one had neither head nor arms...
...role in the organization." Men and women live separately, even when married to each other, in neat, clean, 20-bed dormitories. The men have learned to respect the women's military skills. Says Ali Andelavi, 25, a defector from the Revolutionary Guards who is now an engineer in the rebel army: "In Iran I didn't recognize women even to speak to them. I thought they were subhuman. Here many of my commanders are women...
That she is one of thousands of women who have joined the rebel movement is a measure of the degree to which Tehran has trampled women's rights, says Maryam Rajavi. "The worst and most savage of the regime's repression is directed toward women," she says. "So in our army, women have key roles...
...prominence of women is the rebel movement's most striking feature. "When I was in Iran, I was taught that I was nothing," Ebrahami says. "I could have no job. I was no use to society. After learning to fight and working with men as an equal, I feel pride...