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	SOMALIA MOVES TO END MENACE OF MILITIAMEN. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mogadishu's most prominent businessmen, working on behalf of the new president, are financing a plan to lure the clan-based militiamen away from their leaders and into a separate 4,000-strong force for training as policemen.
		It says many militiamen have already promised to desert their faction leaders within the next week, taking with them their "technicals", trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns that have become the ultimate symbol of authority in Mogadishu over the past decade.
		Many of the militiamen have been hired away from the faction leaders and into the Islamic Courts or business militias in the past two years, and more could now defect in search of a police career and a steady salary.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000916104.htm (596 words)

	Multinational force shoots dead two militiamen in Bunia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The shooting of the militiamen, who were reported to have been intoxicated, was the first confirmed incident of fatalities resulting from an exchange of fire between the French-led multinational troops and militiamen, AFP reported.
		He said that the militiamen were Hemas, and were reported to have been terrorising the local population.
		On Saturday, there was an exchange of fire between the force and militiamen, reportedly from the Lendu, rivals of the Hema, a few kilometres southeast of Bunia during a force patrol.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=34785 (511 words)

	Militiamen Threaten East Timor Peace Despite UN Peacekeepers
		Elidio de Andrade and 10 of his neighbors were trudging through dense tropical forest in the hills behind this hamlet one afternoon earlier this month when nine scruffy men decked out in camouflage and brandishing automatic rifles jumped out of the underbrush and forced the villagers to the ground.
		In the past three weeks, more than 150 militiamen with ties to the Indonesian military have infiltrated East Timor from Indonesian-controlled western Timor in an apparent effort to attack peacekeepers and terrorize civilians, according to senior military officials in the U.N. peacekeeping operation.
		The steady flow of returning militiamen, and the inability of peacekeepers to stop them, is raising the prospect that East Timor, which has been relatively peaceful since international troops arrived last fall, will have to combat a long-term guerrilla insurgency opposing independence.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N31/timor.31w.html (305 words)

	kutv.com - Somali Militiamen: U.S. Shot First
		The U.S. Navy opened fire first on the Somali militiamen's small utility boat, which was towing a pair of skiffs, said Barqad.
		The militiamen, "were in an operation to protect the country's sea resources from illicit exploitation by foreign vessels," Barqad said.
		The militiamen, "were in an operation to protect the country's sea resources from illicit exploitation by foreign vessels," Saleban Aadan Barqad said.
	kutv.com /topstories/topstories_story_078122550.html (734 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Najaf Militiamen Surrender Shrine
		The young men later disappeared into the crowd of jubilant worshippers that Sistani had sent marching past the ruins that defined the front line with U.S. forces and through gates of the shrine's blue-and-green tiled walls.
		Many of the decaying bodies were those of militiamen killed at their firing positions in buildings shattered by overwhelming U.S. firepower.
		But under the terms of the peace agreement, Iraq's government agreed not to arrest him, either for directing the militia or on charges he was behind the April 2003 murder of a fellow cleric.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A39964-2004Aug27?language=printer (1228 words)

	Militiamen Push Islam In Al-Basrah - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The incident sparked several days of protests and raised questions about the absence of the rule of law in the face of the religious extremism that appears to be dictating new societal norms in Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated south.
		One student, Ahmad (a pseudonym) who was not at the picnic, but who attended subsequent demonstrations was asked on 23 March about the attitudes of other Shi'ite groups in the city about the incident, and specifically about the Badr Brigades.
		According to Ahmad, al-Sadr militiamen have been rounding up students who spoke publicly about that incident and forcing them to sign a written statement that they will no longer talk or demonstrate.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/03/09135d6f-9b65-484e-a7f5-279811d1c160.html (1245 words)

	Militiamen Push Their Version of Islam in the Absence of the Rule of Law - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Thirty militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr allegedly attacked 600 picnicking students from Al-Basrah University's College of Engineering at the city's Al-Andulus park on 17 March, claiming the students had violated Islamic norms by dressing in Western clothing, singing, and dancing.
		But university campuses are not the only targets of militiamen bent on imposing Islamic norms on Iraqi society.
		Women in Al-Basrah and Baghdad have frequently complained that they are harassed if they leave their house without hijab, many noting the graffiti that lines the walls of some neighborhoods in the capital threatening death to women who refuse to veil.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2005/0328militiamen.htm (1301 words)

	US forces encounter militiamen, 18 feared killed
		In the last ten months it was the biggest encounter that the US forces were involved in, a military spokesman said.
		Militiamen loyal to the Afghanistan government helped the US forces in the battle.
		The hostile militiamen were suspected to be those of former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who describes US troops as 'occupying forces'.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jan/29ny.htm (121 words)

	americas.org - Berger Warns Militiamen Against Violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On hearing the news, thousands of former militiamen blocked the entrance to Congress in an effort to keep legislators in the building until they approved the bill.
		The PAC veterans are awaiting the second of three installments promised by former President Alfonso Portillo and endorsed by incumbent Berger during his 2003 electoral campaign.
		Human rights advocates oppose the payments to the former militiamen, who are blamed for some of the worst massacres of the civil war.
	www.americas.org /item_16006 (487 words)

	Korean officials discuss investment Militiamen and security officers clash in W. Timor Mexican, US officials negotiate ...
		Atambua, Indonesia - The AP A tense standoff marred the disarming of militiamen in West Timor on Sunday as scores of angry gang members demanded the return of their weapons after Indonesia's visiting vice president refused to speak with them about their future.
		Militiamen attacked policemen, grabbed 13 automatic rifles they had earlier surrendered, then threatened to shoot security officers.
		One of the militiamen, who spoke on condition anonymity, said the gangs would stop handing in their weapons unless the government discusses their future.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=19723 (5593 words)

	ABC News: Sunni Ambush Kills 14 Al-Sadr Militiamen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		By ROBERT H. BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 27, 2005 (AP)— Sunni Arab militants killed 14 Shiite militiamen and a policeman Thursday in a clash southeast of Baghdad another sign of rising tensions among Iraq's rival ethnic and religious communities.
		The Shiite-Sunni fighting occurred after police and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raided a house in Nahrawan, 15 miles southeast of the capital, to free a militiaman taken hostage by Sunni militants, according to Amer al-Husseini, an aide to al-Sadr.
		After freeing the hostage and capturing two militants, the Shiite militiamen were ambushed by the Sunnis on their way out of the religiously mixed town, al-Husseini said.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1257865 (427 words)

	Why Sharon is a War Criminal (by Dr. Ben Alofs) - Media Monitors Network
		But most important was that from the start of the occupation of West-Beirut, the Israeli Army, being an occupation force under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Protocol 1, became responsible for the security of the civilian population under its control.
		The leaders of the Israeli army, Sharon included, were very well aware of the mood of the Phalangists, shortly after the murder of their leader.
		On September 17th it became clear that the ‘Kataeb’ (Phalangists) and/or the militiamen of Saad Haddad (funded and armed by Israel) were slaughtering the civilian population.
	www.mediamonitors.net /drbenalofs1.html (1960 words)

	KOLO \| Iraq Militiamen Clash With U.S. Troops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		U.S. forces in Najaf came under their most intense attack yet by Shiite militiamen in a clash Monday that may have killed up to 20 Iraqis.
		Before dawn Monday, militiamen shelled the troops with about 20 mortars, hitting in and around the base where U.S. troops replaced Spanish forces a week ago.
		He estimated 20 militiamen were killed in the battle and said there were few civilian casualties because troops were using precision fire.
	www.kolotv.com /home/headlines/742512.html (963 words)

	13 Sadr militiamen killed
		Baghdad - US troops killed 13 militiamen loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr overnight in clashes outside the central Shiite city of Kufa, a senior coalition military official said on Tuesday.
		The official said 14 others were wounded in fighting around buildings used by Sadr's Mehdi Army militia in what he described as a perennial hotspot.
		The rebel cleric is alleged to have stockpiled arms and amassed men both inside Kufa's mosques and shrines and around the shrine of Imam Ali in neighbouring Najaf, where he has been holed up for more than a month.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1525160,00.html (200 words)

	Israel's Withdrawal from South Lebanon: The Human Rights Dimensions (Human Rights Watch Press Briefing, New York, May ...
		Large numbers of militiamen who were forcibly conscripted, as well as others, may seek to turn themselves in to Lebanese authorities.
		Press reports have suggested that the Israeli government is preparing to admit a certain number of SLA militiamen and their families, from a few hundred to a few thousand people.
		Most of the commuters are believed to be relatives of militiamen, or persons whom militiamen sponsor in return for a percentage of their salaries.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/lebanon/israel051000.htm (1990 words)

	UN Prepares To Disarm 100,000 Afghan Militiamen
		UN senior adviser Sultan Aziz said disarmament could begin in late October with pilot programs to disarm 1,000 men each in the northern city of Kunduz, Gardez in the southeast and the main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
		President Hamid Karzai on Saturday announced key new appointments to the defence ministry, under a reform drive aimed at allowing the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of militiamen, many of whom are from private armies loyal to warlords and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance figures.
		Militiamen had been reluctant to hand over weapons while the ministry was dominated by a rival faction.
	www.rense.com /general42/unrep.htm (478 words)

	Soldiers kill 13 militiamen in Ituri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The captured militiamen were in military uniform and armed with AK-47 assault rifles.
		During their advance on Bogoro, the militiamen passed through the villages of Ezekere, Likoni and Zumbe, urging the Lendu population to join them.
		The Ituri assistant district commissioner, Mbitso Ngedza, said in the course of their retreat, the militiamen killed a chief of post in Nombe, 3 km south of Bogoro.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=52153 (503 words)

	Sudanese militiamen use rape as 'weapon' - World - www.theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sudanese Arab militiamen rape women and young girls in a violent campaign intended to drive fl Africans from the troubled western region of Darfur, Amnesty International said yesterday.
		The Janjaweed militiamen sometimes torture women and break their limbs to prevent them from escaping rape, abductions and sexual slavery, the human rights organisation said in a report entitled Sudan, Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur.
		While the Arab militiamen have routinely killed fl African men and torched hundreds of villages, they have also systematically targeted women and girls as young as eight for sexual violence, the Amnesty report says, citing hundreds of interviews in camps in Chad sheltering about 200,000 Darfur refugees.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/19/1090089093896.html?from=storylhs (386 words)

	U.S., Iraqi forces raid mosque in Kufa, killing 32 militiamen \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		U.S. troops also clashed with militiamen loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a Shiite district of Baghdad and in Najaf, the twin city of Kufa.
		Nine U.S. soldiers were wounded Sunday around Baghdad, the military said, including four injured in a mortar attack in the east of the capital.
		U.S. soldiers fought militiamen near Kufa's Sahla mosque and then raided it for weapons after an Iraqi counterterrorism force "cleared" the site, the military said.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/23294 (403 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. forces, militiamen clash in Karbala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Insurgents were using small arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, and their use of the shrine was more noticeable in the past three days, he said.
		The U.S. military denies the allegations, saying militiamen have used Muslim holy places as firing positions and storerooms for weapons.
		Militiamen fired two mortar rounds at a U.S. convoy in Najaf on Wednesday, witnesses said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-05-19-iraq_x.htm (913 words)

	FOCUS-Pro-Jakarta militiamen riot after rally
		Some 400 pro-jakarta militiamen opened fire on the houses of pro-independence activists after staging a mass rally in support of maintaining their increasingly violent homeland's status as part of Indonesia.
		Earlier on Saturday, more than 1,000 militiamen brandishing machetes and rifles rallied in Dili and vowed to continue their fight to keep East Timor as part of Indonesia.
		Many of the militiamen wore headbands in red and white -- the colours of the Indonesian flag.
	www.etan.org /et99/april/11-17/17focus.htm (437 words)

	HONOR OF THE MILITIAMEN OF 1759
		On this day, the Acadian national holiday,the city of Québec and the National Capital Commission of Québec unveil a plaque to commemorate the courrage of 200 Canadien and Acadian militiamen who gave their lives, on the 13th of September 1759, covering the retreat of the French army after the defeat of the Plains of Abraham.
		There on a hillock, defending a bakery and a windmill, the last militiamen were hacked or blasted down.
		This little known event, originally recorded in the Memories of the Chevalier James Johnstone, was part of the personal research of Thomas M. Champagne, a Franco-Ontarian Historian of Acadian ancestry.
	members.tripod.com /Ahura_Mazda/miliciamen.html (784 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » 600 militiamen surrender weapons in northern Afghanistan
		The pilot phase of a UN-backed program to strip 100,000 combatants of their weapons and set them on the path to a new life is now in its third day in the northern city of Kunduz, 60 kilometers (38 miles) from the Tajikistan border and 250 kilometers from the capital Kabul.
		Outside the gate in a dusty yard strewn with disused tanks left over from past wars, another 170 uniformed militiamen queued up to hand over their weapons.
		A total of 1,000 local combatants are targeted for disarmament in Kunduz this week, as a pilot for the national program, which has a time frame of three years.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/f909ec9408c9480cc1256dc7004342ee (278 words)

	Congolese militiamen may have freed two - Boston.com
		Two U.N. peacekeepers who were taken hostage in eastern Congo in May have been released, but five others remained in the hands of Congolese militiamen, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
		The seven were captured during a military operation in restive Ituri province against militiamen in which two peacekeepers were killed.
		A 1998-2002 war that drew armies from six countries into Congo is over, but eastern Congo remains awash in Congolese and foreign militiamen who prey on civilians.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/06/27/congolese_militiamen_may_have_freed_two?mode=PF (304 words)

	British troops clash with militiamen - Mar. 31, 2004
		BASRA, Iraq - British troops clashed with Islamist militiamen here, as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sacked his security chief, after a report said negligence added to the death toll in August's bombing of the UN Baghdad office.
		Two British soldiers were slightly injured Monday as they tried to evict Islamist militiamen from a building in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra that belongs to a local women's organization, the British military spokesman said.
		A spokesman for the Thaarallah (God's Wrath) militia, one of several Islamic militias based in the Shiite-majority city, said five of his comrades were hurt in the fighting.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/mar/31/wnw_3-1.htm (561 words)

	Black Hawk War of 1832
		Along the trail, the militiamen also found dozens of Sauks and Foxes, mostly old people and children who were suffering from starvation.
		The advancing militiamen also encountered small groups of Sauk and Fox warriors who had stayed behind to slow their progress.
		Exhausted from the chase but exhilarated by the nearness of their enemy, the militiamen pressed on.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /blackhawk/page2c.html (1754 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » DRC: UN envoy gives militiamen ultimatum to disarm
		Swing, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the DRC, said his ultimatum was in line with a programme of disarmament, demobilisation and community reinsertion of the armed groups under the aegis of the UN, which is due to end in April.
		Many militiamen have already undergone the process of community reinsertion and demobilisation since the second half of 2004.
		According to the National Commission for Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reinsertion, some 3,783 militiamen have already gone through the disarmament and community reinsertion process, intended for the combatants of the various militia groups in the district, estimated to be 15,000, including 6,000 children.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DDAD-6AGN7J?OpenDocument (685 words)

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