Instead of the rule of law, there would be the law of the mafia, of terrorist groups, and of tribal militias.

The city was fully under the control of Jewish paramilitary forces by May 11, 1948.

Many people became the victims of forced disappearances and indiscriminate violence. Comuna 13 remained under paramilitary control for the next six years, between 1998 and 2004.

Training police forces to secure law and order without resorting to bloodshed is no less important than elections.

The only positive result that may emerge from such a structural change could be that the number of anti terrorist formations will grow.

Even before Arafat s death, Abbas argued that the use of force by militants weakens the Palestinian negotiating position.

71. Some organized gangs engaged in common crime act in the name of former paramilitary organizations or death squads.

Pakistan s western reaches are now a sanctuary for militias and terrorists that are moving in and out of Afghanistan. Here, Barack Obama appears more willing to have the US launch unilateral military raids against terrorists should the opportunity arise.

Pakistan s western reaches are now a sanctuary for militias and terrorists that are moving in and out of Afghanistan.

Violence decreased most significantly with the disbanding of the right wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.

The status of the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and the recent incidents of possibly systematic humiliation and torture of Iraqi prisoners cast doubt on the very values on which a liberal order is based.

Can using US funding to reopen Iraqi state owned enterprises get young men to abandon the insurgency and sectarian militias?

Indefinite detention without trial is as unacceptable as defining people as illegal combatants, to whom no rules of any kind apply.

If the Salehs retain control of the air force, which remains under the control of Saleh s half brother, employing it against defecting military divisions would likely lead to a bloodbath.

On the Palestinian side, consolidation of the Palestinian Authority s control over a dozen security services and militias would be an important step.

In Colombia s south where the heavy presence of illegal armed groups makes social peace a distant dream I went to visit a secondary school, as part of a needs assessment.

For a group of peaceful activists opposing the regime of Bashar Al Assad to be kidnapped in a liberated area without a serious attempt by the armed factions there to look for the kidnappers and hold them accountable, is alarming to all of us.

As long as Iraqis face daily threats of larceny, kidnapping, and murder particularly from those who are supposed to protect them they will seek security from neighborhood gangs and militias.

The establishment of a humanitarian zone enabled CAVIDA members to return to their land and live protected from the internal armed conflict in a region with presence of all types of legal and illegal armed actors.

Assefa played a prominent role during and after the Ethiopian student movement of the 1970s not only through his writing but also by organizing various political groups.

9. Welcomes the outcome of the Conference on Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups for the Stabilization of Afghanistan Coordination with Police Reform, held in Tokyo on 21 June 2007 See A 61 993 S 2007 417.

The US, in particular, now believes that most of its adversaries are not soldiers in the conventional sense, but unlawful combatants people to whom the protections of the Geneva Conventions do not apply.

Those personnel are enabled further by laws like the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act (1990) and the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (1978).

The Maoist and non Maoist parties have asked the UN to maintain a political presence while the issue of the former combatants is resolved, and we stand ready to support peace building, recovery, and long term development.