Word: rebelling
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That is, of course, a real possibility in a rebellion as bloody as this one. Aspiring to succeed Doe is Charles McArthur Taylor, a former Liberian official who led about 150 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast last Christmas Eve. Recruits flocked to the rebel ranks after the army, headed by members of Doe's minority Krahn tribe, staged a series of reprisal attacks on the villages of the Gio and Mano tribes in Taylor's base area...
...Nations has estimated that 200,000 children under the age of 15 are bearing arms around the world. The Salvadoran army has forcibly conscripted boys not yet 18, while soldiers as young as 13 have sworn allegiance to Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N. is an equal...
...martial law, which had been in effect since September 1988, in parts of the country, but the campaign of intimidation continued. Security officers reportedly conducted random searches of houses, and in the eastern state of Shan reports spread of men being dragooned into the army to carry munitions into rebel-occupied areas...
Monrovia is fast becoming a lonely place. As the rebel National Patriotic Front advanced to within 20 miles of the capital last week, frightened residents fled to neighboring Sierra Leone. Many embassy staffers have departed, and high officials of President Samuel Doe's government have left town. Even Doe's wife and children have escaped to Britain...
...most overpowering impression in the Vale these days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet...