In June, Mr. Sadr formed a militia called the Mahdi Army.
They set up a militia called the Ulster Volunteers and imported 25,000 rifles from Germany.
In addition to these, there were about 200,000 irregular militia called the Razakars under the command of civilian leader Kasim Razvi.
What were the militia calling?
Far worse than all of this, however, were the threats of a rogue Pakistani militia called the Pakistani Guard.
The militia called an immediate protest strike that paralyzed Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut.
We already have trouble with the locals, the tooks as the militia calls them.
In this period a new militia called the Janjaweed, partially drawing upon the Beni Halba, was first formed.
They formed a rival militia called the SPLA-Nasir after their base in the town of Nasir.
They formed a militia called the "Free Corps".