They were fleeing an attack by the Janjaweed, the dreaded Arab militia backed by Sudan's government.
They go in the knowledge that if they're seen by the government's militia they may be attacked.
You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have.
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He said al-Sadr's call for a cease-fire to his Mehdi Army militia also reflects such progress.
" In fact, he remembered, the locals referred to the police as "the militia.
The government used aerial bombardments, while its Janjaweed militia allies attacked civilians on the ground.
The al-Shabab militia confirmed that its leader, Aden Hashi Ayro, was killed along with several others.
He is to deliver a sermon during Friday prayers at Tehran University, the Basji militia said.
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The U.S. and Israel have linked the incidents to Iran and the Iranian-backed militia, Hezbollah.
Soldiers were actually planning to conduct a routine joint patrol with local militia, said General Wall.
The US Defence Department told the BBC that the ruling militia had produced no proof.
Her three sons, her daughter and her sister were all killed by the hard-line militia.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: She sobs as she remembers the day the militia came to kill her sister.
The government is beginning to integrate some of the many militia into national security forces.
In 1971, Islamist militia that opposed Bangladesh breaking away from Pakistan targeted those who favored independence.
The other two women, the ones from the militia, ask the prison guard to withdraw.
Syria never populated the Golan in the past, except with troops and Druze militia.
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He also reported that Sudanese troops were working with militias linked to the government-backed Janjaweed militia.
Often, the local police force is more of a militia answering to the local strongmen.
The chief is faced with murder, a menacing militia and a municipality loaded with soap-opera-like misbehavior.
As militia chiefs retreated, the residents of Cocaine City fled their mansions, residents said.
Recent years have seen conflict between a UN-backed government and the al-Shabab Islamist militia.
Militia loyal to al-Sadr have been battling U.S.-led coalition forces in the region for weeks.
In 2002, in a northeastern Congo town called Kisangani, a militia killed at least 103 civilians.
The agency recently received reports that Iraqi children have been recruited by militia and insurgent groups.
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His militia's swift release of a British journalist seized in Basra was another positive sign.
The men of the militia may have been fighters, but they also knew how to party.
Elaborate and often quite beautiful, volunteer militia regalia is in a unique collecting category.
Likewise, the 18th-century French and Indian Wars were fought by militia troops from all the Colonies.
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