Various paramilitary groups supported each of the ethno national causes.

Unknown individuals appeared in the courthouse with paramilitary style uniforms.

They stressed that all paramilitary and militia groups must also be disarmed.

But indoctrination and even some forms of paramilitary training are also available on the Internet.

The number of participants from the militias and paramilitary groups has yet to be determined.

But locals say the mobile brigade (Indonesian paramilitary police) began shooting at the crowd, killing one.

At the same time, the drug cartels set up their own paramilitary groups to protect themselves.

The certificates were used to import AK 47 rifles that ended up in the hands of Colombian paramilitary groups.

In many areas, the existing police force is a paramilitary hierarchical organization without accountability to the community or independent oversight.

(b) The Popular Defence Forces (PDF) are paramilitary forces that are mobilized when there is a threat to the national security.

Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States), judgment, ICJ Reports 1986, p. 14, at 95, para.

The other notable characteristic of these paramilitary groups was their connections with the security apparatuses of States overtly or covertly involved in the conflicts.

Her delegation categorically rejected the unfounded and unprecedented statement in paragraph 40 that paramilitary groups in Colombia were tolerated or supported by the Government.

And I couldn't help notice that the people who were perpetrating the appalling atrocities, the paramilitary organizations, were actually the same people running the organized criminal syndicates.

The Commission expresses serious concern at reports of cases of support, collusion or complicity on the part of State agents with paramilitary groups, and encourages the Government of Colombia to strengthen its policy to sever all links between paramilitary groups and civil servants at regional and national levels in administrations and institutions and takes note of the increasing number of investigations carried out by the State.

On 9 June 1985, the author was redetained at the headquarters of the Brigade mixte mobile (BMM), a paramilitary police force, where he initially shared a cell with 20 murder convicts.

Violence against women in the context of the armed conflict therefore takes second place in the negotiations with paramilitary groups, notwithstanding the right of victims of violence to truth, justice and redress.

China s resource driven stealth wars are becoming a leading cause of geopolitical instability in Asia. The instruments that China uses are diverse, including a new class of stealth warriors reared by paramilitary maritime agencies.

The supply, sale, transit and brokering of items of military equipment of any kind, including military weapons, ammunition, vehicles and equipment and paramilitary equipment, as well as accessories and spare parts thereof, are prohibited.

The International Court of Justice similarly based its jurisdiction on a treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation in the case of Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America).

Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, ICJ Reports 1984, p. 392, 442 para. 113(1)(a) (judgment of 26 November) (11 votes to 5).

19. The Commission requests that the Government of Colombia implement firmly its commitment to foster investigations of complaints in relation to forced disappearances, mainly perpetrated by paramilitary groups but also sometimes attributed to the security forces.

Not only are the victims, particularly women, excluded from the negotiations but a legal framework is being established that will promote impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law and favour the interests of paramilitary groups.

The resolution called upon the Ivorian parties to cooperate with UNOCI in establishing within 45 days a comprehensive list of armaments in the possession of their armed forces and of paramilitary troops and militias associated with them.

The Forum recommends that courts and judicial bodies take urgent steps to ensure the protection of indigenous peoples from threats of the use of physical violence by Governments or paramilitary groups controlled by Governments and non State actors.

Her delegation emphatically rejected paragraph 40 of the report, which affirmed without foundation  that paramilitary or self defence groups were reportedly tolerated or supported by the Government, and that killings continued unabated and without any intervention by government forces.

During that period, despite the signing of the N'Djamena Ceasefire Agreement in April 2004, the armed movements clashed numerous times with Government forces, the paramilitary Popular Defence Forces, tribal based militias (commonly referred to as Janjaweed) or some combination thereof.

Negotiations on Colombia s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States had been finalized. Even the questionable deal Uribe cut with the right wing paramilitary AUC groups, pardoning up to 30,000 of their members for often horrendous crimes in exchange for their disarmament, appeared successful.

Child soldiers still linger in paramilitary groups, and there are compromising video recordings of leading Colombian politicians and drug lords. Perhaps weirdest of all, there are imprisoned guerrillas who refuse to be set free, and a government that insists on liberating them, even against their will.

13. Decides that all States shall prevent the sale or supply to Rwanda by their nationals or from their territories or using their flag vessels or aircraft of arms and related matériel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary police equipment and spare parts

Qaddafi used strong security services and paramilitary revolutionary committees to safeguard his rule, leaving state institutions dysfunctional and fragmented. Indeed, Qaddafi s belief that the bureaucracy impeded the transmission of his message to the masses spurred him to dismantle ministries periodically and place privileged personal relationships above institutional hierarchies.

The Working Group recommended that Governments consider establishing NIs comprising persons of independence and ability and enabling such institutions to investigate and grant appropriate relief for violations of minority rights by all State agencies, including the police, armed police and paramilitary forces, and also by non State actors.

The Kremlin closed its eyes to Kadryov s amnesty of former guerrillas and their inclusion in his paramilitary units. In exchange, Kadyrov was to wage war against the remaining Islamist resistance and thus relieve Moscow of the burden of shedding Russian blood, or at least minimize the cost in Russian casualties.

The visit revealed, inter alia, the devastating effects of the internal armed conflict on indigenous communities murder and torture, mass displacement, forced disappearance, forced recruitment of young people into combat units and rape of women, as well as occupation of indigenous people's lands by guerrilla, paramilitary and other illegal armed groups.

Since this has traditionally been thought of as a man's issue, women and gender issues have, on the whole, been excluded from discussions about conflict and peace. Women who have suffered at the hands of paramilitary groups have been excluded from the negotiations currently being held, on the Government's initiative, with such groups.

These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers. They demanded tax cuts, and got them they demanded a rollback of environmental protection, and got it they demanded, and received, the right to attack unions and they demanded lucrative government contracts, even for paramilitary operations, and got those, too.

Fortunately, organized Muslim leaders so far have not aggravated the rioting. Of course, the government s reduction of community policing in favor of paramilitary forces stationed in quasi military barracks, and the Minister of Interior s description of the young rioters as scum who should be washed away with an industrial power hose, has not helped.

Since taking office last August, Ahmadinejad has installed Hojatieh devotees in his cabinet and throughout the bureaucracy. The Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), largely sidelined by former President Mohammed Khatami, has re emerged as a powerful repressive force, using plain clothes agents, allied with the paramilitary Bassij and non government vigilantes, to crack down on potential opponents of the regime.

The use of mercenaries, often as part of paramilitary groups existing outside legal or official channels, to combat insurgency against the State posed the question of whether mercenaries should not only be defined in regard to the purpose of destabilizing the State, but also in relation to the purpose of maintaining the status quo by violently repressing opposition to political regimes.

Thus, Law L 91 002 of 23 December 1991 on the organization of political parties stipulates (article 26) that every Guinean of either sex who has reached voting age and is in possession of his or her civil, civic and political rights, except for military and paramilitary personnel and serving magistrates, is free to join or to quit a political party.

The Working Group noted that it will in the future invite NHRIs to participate and recommended that Governments consider establishing NHRIs comprising persons of independence and ability and enabling such institutions to investigate and grant appropriate relief for violations of minority rights by all State agencies, including the police, armed police and paramilitary forces, and also by non State actors.

Nor has the Government denied that the detainees are farm workers' leaders, or that Francisco Cortés Aguilar has no record as a subversive or terrorist in Colombia, that he has denied any link with subversive organizations, and that, on the contrary, he had to seek exile in Bolivia with his family as a result of being threatened by paramilitary organizations.

It calls upon the Government of Colombia to increase its efforts to investigate such reports and to prosecute the personnel concerned under civil law and calls on the Government to make full use of the legal powers at its disposal to ensure that measures of suspension are taken when the investigation reveals significant evidence of collusion with the paramilitary forces.

23. The Commission strongly condemns continuous breaches by the paramilitary groups of the cessation of hostilities, and the fact that all illegal armed groups continue to use violent means and to commit serious and numerous breaches such as attacks on the civilian population, indiscriminate attacks, homicides, massacres, hostage taking, or forced displacements, recruitment of minors and violence against women and girls.

Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Dissenting opinion of Judge Sir Robert Jennings, 1986 ICJ Reports 528, 538 39 (judgment of 27 June) ( Since the judgment on jurisdiction , the United States has denounced the Treaty by a Note of 1 May 1985, giving the year's notice of denunciation required by Article XXV, paragraph 3, of the Treaty ).