What is "paramilitaries"

Usage examples of "paramilitaries".

The various private armies, paramilitaries of the right, the left and the narcotraffickers, succeeded for the nonce in holding substantial parts of the undeveloped part of the country, as well as the mountain fringed capital, Bogotá.

On a wall someone had daubed painted messages, old references to the H Block and Bobby Sands, newer additions in praise of the IRA, and promising revenge against the loyalist paramilitaries, the UVF and UFF predominantly.

Even the rougher housing schemes were kept in check by the paramilitaries, whose punishments went beyond incarceration.

See, the IRA has good links with the East and Libya, but the loyalist paramilitaries don't.

The newest IRA splinters made the Orangemen's paramilitaries look like schoolboys—and the Orange terror squads proudly claimed kinship with Attila the Hun.

Not that the IRA was any better, for all that they didn't torch Protestant neighborhoods the way the Orange paramilitaries torched Catholic ones.

He'd gone too far even for the Orange marching societies and paramilitaries and they wanted help finding him.

That is the way the Orange paramilitaries deal with traitors to their own, isn't it?

But now we have Ben Trask, David Chung, Anna Marie English and a bunch of pot-holers, and a half-company of paramilitaries, lost between two worlds.

Under the NATO peacekeeping umbrella, safe from hitand-run raids by Serb paramilitaries and border police, the Kukes training camp was allowed to grow and flourish.

It was Lewis's job to coordinate the activities of the Green Mountain Boys, along with a few soldiers from other NATO countries, Macedonian Army conscripts, and local paramilitaries and townspeople into an effective construction unit.

Protestant paramilitaries took the blame, but Mean Machine, though he admitted nothing, would wink and grin when the incident was mentioned.