Paramilitary

Colombia has endured the longest running internal conflict in the Western Hemisphere. For over forty years a war between guerillas, paramilitaries, and government forces have resulted in a devastating loss of life. According to the Center for Justice and Accountability, In the last 20 years an estimated 70,000 civilians have been killed. More than 3 million have fled the violence, making Colombia home to the second largest internally displaced population in the world. Colombia, in common with…

Brazil and Saudi Arabi Brazil and Saudi Arabia are countries in different continents. They are modern countries; however, they have different societies, governments systems, and transnational issues. In Brazil, the population is 204,259,812 as the estimation of July 2015 states. In addition, the population growth rate is 0.77% with 14.46 births per 1000 population and 6.58 deaths per 1000 population. These people talk many languages, but the Portuguese language is the most widely spoken language…

Germany. Fascism is a dictatorial government that controls all aspects of its people’s life, and puts emphasis on Nation, and often race. Opposition is not allowed to exist (3). As fascists began to consistently harass their left-wing opponents with paramilitary-raids, this force was primarily used as a defense against them. This is where the name Anti-fascist is derived from (2). The anti-fascists attempts were not so successful,…

authorizing open request laws against betting and inebriation, surveilling settlers and liberated slaves, and bugging work coordinators, popular conclusion favored limitations on the utilization of power. In any case, the estimation of outfitted, paramilitary vicinity, approved to utilize, without a doubt savage power, served the hobbies of nearby financial elites who had needed sorted out police offices in any case. State police organizations rose for a considerable lot of the same reasons.…

Mussolini used violence as a main tactic to help promote his political viewpoint of fascism. Through illegal violence, rather than elections, Fascists controlled government administration and destroyed the offices, newspapers, and cultural and social organizations of the Socialists, trade unions, and peasant leagues (Lyttelton). Socialists had a difficult time reorganizing because of the repeated violence toward local leaders. Large demonstrations, assisted by the police and higher classes, were…

Germany could not escape authoritarian governance. After World War I (WWI) came to an end and the democratic Weimar Republic replaced the autocratic war regime, Germany finally appeared to be temporarily rid of political violence. However, chaos persisted. The government suppressed public uprisings with brutal violence, killing hundreds. Germany again fell into disorder. This never-ending governmental oppression is reflected in the 1920 horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The movie…

Following the end of the Second World War, Marshall Tito, former leader of the Partisans, lead the ethnically diverse, if not artificial, state of Yugoslavia into a new age of optimism that lasted for three decades. Unfortunately, this age ended with his death. His death, along with the fall of the Soviet Union a decade later, left the fate of Yugoslavia, and its many peoples, uncertain. Following the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites in 1989, a feeling of uncertainty tainted the air…

In this chapter I will be discussing how Bobby Sands’ Prison Poems presents fear and trauma through alienation and surveillance, in reference to his trilogy ‘The Crime of Castlereagh’, ‘Diplock Court’ and ‘The Torture Mill – H-Block’. The period of 1914-1991 has been referred to as: The Age Of Extremes’ (Hobsbawn, 1994) as it was inclusive of wars, peace, advancements, destruction, failures and fears, therefore, it is fitting to apply this notion to The Troubles of Northern Ireland as it appears…

Furthermore, Jewish terrorist groups comprised of mostly Orthodox Jews have been active for decades and their terror acts were mostly committed in Israel and adjacent disputed territories, also known as Palestine. They combine their religious motivations with political and territorial goals. They tend to be religious Jews whose rhetoric, motivation and purpose are deeply religious. These Halakha-centred Jews engage in horrifying acts not only on the settlements and disputed land but also at…

because this shows opposition, it is not a very strong opposition which suggests that he was actually reluctant to do so because it is not calling for a dissolution of the paramilitary groups, which would be a stronger preventive action. Historians relate to this source in a number of ways because it is debateable how much the paramilitary squads helped Mussolini in his rise to power. Denis Mack-Smith for example demonstrates that Mussolini continued to state publicly that violence must end but…