Militias
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Similarly, after arming Kurdish
militias
to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) on its behalf, the US has stood by and watched Turkey attack those same men and women.
Defections, realignments, and infighting have occurred within and among all five coalitions, including reported sparring between pro-Assad
militias
and among ISIS units.
Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the
militias
in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.
Ethnic
militias
are also making a show of strength elsewhere in the south, mainly among the Igbo and the Yoruba, whose political elites call for greater political and fiscal autonomy.
In Libya, Islamist
militias
control entire cities and regions, rendering it impossible for the central government to assert its authority.
One reason for the radicals’ regional shenanigans – such as supporting
militias
in Yemen, Palestine, and Lebanon – is the belief that confrontation with the US or Israel is inevitable.
The persistence of civil wars, periodic failure of ceasefires and mediation efforts, and protagonists that are sometimes warlords and rapacious
militias
– rather than states capable of making rational decisions – all add to the difficulty of conflict resolution by diplomatic means and traditional peacekeeping.
Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice; independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement; local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias; and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.
But ending the dominance of the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi), an Iran-sponsored umbrella of Shia militias, in areas vacated by the Islamic State (ISIS) is a top priority for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has the backing of Iraq’s supreme Shia authority, Ali al-Sistani.
Several other African states – Angola, Namibia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe – have also at times participated in armed combat within the DRC, either directly or through proxy
militias.
Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.
Already, signs of spillover effects can be seen in clashes between Sunni and Alawite
militias.
Armed
militias
sprang up all over central and eastern DRC, and today wield absolute power across large swathes of territory, exploiting the extractive industries for funding.
It might explain the exasperated sighs at recent news of yet more mass rapes, perpetrated with seeming impunity by armed
militias
in South Kivu, on the country’s eastern fringe.
With an ever-larger military machine backed by village-level militias, civil society has been the main loser.
Iran’s Troubled RiseAmerica’s decision to target Iranian agents in Iraq who may be involved in supporting violent
militias
is but another sign of the massive influence Iran is exercising in that troubled country.
Moreover, Arafat contributed to the absence of a legitimate monopoly of force by ignoring the semi-autonomous armed actions of his own Fatah-based militia, as well as the Fatah-based Al–Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, not to mention other groups’ armed
militias.
By disarming any remaining militias, Abbas could claim what Max Weber called the necessary ingredient of any state, namely a “monopoly of the legitimate use of force.”
Through Shia
militias
and a sympathetic government in Baghdad, Iran is virtually occupying large parts of Iraq.
UN Security Council resolution 1559, which explicitly called for the disarming of all
militias
and the reassertion of Lebanese government authority in the south, went unheeded.
To avoid such a scenario, Abbas has banned all
militias
and military groups in the West Bank, including his Fatah Party’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Owing to his influence with the Fatah militias, Barghouti’s release could help Abbas and the discredited Fatah leadership, and boost the younger generation of Fatah leaders.
Although the overwhelming majority of Palestinians reject the use of force to settle this power struggle, many welcome the change in Gaza, where Hamas has cleared the streets of armed
militias
and restored some law and order.
The current US turn toward collaboration with Sunni
militias
holds within it the risk of a final break-up of Iraq into three parts.
A crucial hallmark of Palestinian society is the weakness of its institutions: civic organizations are woefully under-developed, and responsive party structures that can effectively representing social interests do not exist--except those of the armed militias, like Fatah or Hamas.
Rwandan territory was under perpetual assault from genocidal
militias
seeking to “finish the job.”
Unemployed urban youth and ethnic
militias
are driving an upsurge of armed robbery and political violence in such cities as Lagos and Warri in the south, and Kaduna and Kano in the north.
In the CAR, attacks on Christians by Muslim ex-Séléka fighters have been superseded by Christian and animist Anti-balaka militias’ violence against fleeing Muslims.
But there is a strong case for the United States, in particular, to work toward securing a homeland for the Kurds – a case buttressed by Kurdish militias’ indispensable contribution to defeating the Islamic State.
To the dismay of the Kurds and other Sunni Iraqis, Shia
militias
controlled by the Iraqi and Iranian governments, such as Hashd al-Shaabi, are filling much of the void left behind by ISIS.
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