"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Deadly violence returned to East Timor last week, and militias backed by Indonesia's army are clearly to blame.
- More than 1,000 civilians were killed, the United Nations estimates, as militias backed by the military rampaged across the territory and destroyed much of its infrastructure.
- The city had been mostly emptied last month when local militias backed by the military terrorized the population.
- The violence, Darfuris say, started long ago but worsened in 2003, when militias backed by the Arab-Islamist government razed villages.
- "The militia after the explosions, backed by the police, raided the Sunni houses in the area and pulled people outdoors and killed them," it said.
- In both cases, militias backed by the Indonesian military or elements of the military itself were suspected.
- Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed by anti-independence militias backed by elements of the military.
- He and his co-defendants maintain that the campaign was military in nature, to support Iraqi troops who were trying to suppress Kurdish militias backed by Iran.
- But militias backed by the Indonesian Army have unleashed a new campaign of violence aimed at thwarting independence.
- Tightly woven networks of militias backed by the government, the areas have been largely off-limits to American forces.
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