However, armed militiamen and civilians, some of them women and children, converged on the target area from all over the city.

At that time the human flood was held back by an apparently impenetrable chain of armed militiamen.

The armed militiamen will be too few and too busy guarding their judges to voyage far afield in search of culprits.

Access to much of this territory has been cut off by armed militiamen.

The party claimed it had as many as 3,000 troops, but the Croatian police estimated only 250 armed militiamen.

During the fighting in Beirut large numbers of armed militiamen had appeared on the streets.

Out of the 60,000 armed militiamen, only 10,000 have been disarmed and demobilized, and the program has stalled rather than accelerated in recent months.

He was accompanied by two unarmed civilians and four armed militiamen.

The government has yet to revive the program, leaving tens of thousands of former militiamen angry, armed and in the bush.

But armed militiamen in battle fatigues occasionally walk the streets, which are nearly empty of traffic.