IV. Armed conflict

Armed militias in the Niger Delta are becoming bolder.

Military force has played a role as well.

They fuel and prolong armed conflicts.

The armed factions have threatened him on several occasions.

The military must be taken off the streets.

Even the military faces these changes.

Armed criminals attacked a currency exchange office.

Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.

And this is to say nothing of the structural faults that continue to impede political progress a defective constitution, censored media, and a partisan security and military establishment.

Japan's Peace Constitution supposedly bans possession of military forces.

Military forces of the Greek state now take active part in the conflict.

Religious militant groups have targeted anti polio workers seeing them as under cover espionage.

Moreover, militant groups cannot match the state's firepower.

Gun makers have been able to escape responsibility for firearm violence.

Russia s armed forces are able to project little in the way of usable military might.

He had become one more casualty of the impunity that the armed forces enjoy in Kashmir.

He was referring to the armed Salafi groups that were accused of destroying Sufi shrines.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the US accomplishes internationally.

The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic s secular traditions.

For defense, the US created the Department of Homeland Security and is transforming its military.

In Afghanistan, Pakistan s military and intelligence agencies sought strategic depth against India.

Under United Nations rules, the Dutch, bearing only sidearms, could fight only in self defense.

The armed forces and police of States therefore need small arms and light weapons.

(b) Call upon the Haitian Armed Forces to respect the Agreement signed on 3 July at Governors Island

MAPUTO Most of the news one hears coming out of Mozambique is bad poverty, disease, conflict, and floods.

The military changes the identity of its recruits, inculcating in them values such as duty and service.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Latin America s oldest guerilla group formed alliances with narcotics cartels.

(c) Extension of the scope of application of the Convention and the Protocols thereto to non international armed conflicts

Since early August, military trucks and armed patrols have become a common sight on city streets.

Of course, one reason for that failure is that the South Vietnamese were not different enough from the North Vietnamese for the Malayan formula of identifying and isolating rebel communities by race to work.

Indeed, the prominent feminist lawyer Asma Jahangir has 24 hour armed guards.

America s overstretched military provides the irrefutable rationale for a deep restructuring of Asia Pacific security.

Alas, outnumbered and outgunned by Mladić s forces, the Dutch surrendered Srebrenica to its fate.

At the time, Gorbachev s policies of perestroika and glasnost were seen by Soviet hardliners as a sell out of communist Russia to the capitalist West.

MADRID The attack by a Western led alliance on Muammar Gaddafi s forces in Libya is driven largely by principled motives.

Armed with the right information and incentives, young people can make better decisions about their health and education.

But these trade offs must be made if Europe s military is to meet the Continent s security needs.

British experts from the Malayan emergency tried to help the Americans in Vietnam obviously without success.

But it is now clear that the KGB and the military who launched the coup were not defending the idea of communism.

Various reports have been received regarding the presence in that zone of armed individuals who engage in criminal activities.

Others went so far as to say that the self defenders could be the start of a revolution Yosoy132 was chaos at the national level and it was peaceful armed self defense groups in Michoacán are going to be a revolution. Gonna go ahead and call it again, the self defense forces in Michoacán are revolutionary forces.

Indeed, more than half of all NATO nations have had forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Meanwhile, the lion s share of the new budget, 63 , will go to the military, police, administration, and debt service.

The country s once powerful military, which collapsed with the demise of communism in 1991, was being rebuilt.