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When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of mostly Shiite militiamen — from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and as far away as Pakistan and Afghanistan — flocked to Sayedah Zainab’s rundown neighborhoods, transforming a pilgrimage site into a military zone.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
After a Genocide in Rwanda, Painful Memories Run Deep
The Central African country is marking the anniversary of a monthslong rampage by militiamen that killed some 800,000 people.
—Matt Stevens Bilal Shbair Abdi Latif Dahir Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Consider the case of Suleiman Bek, a medium-sized town near the border between Diyala and Salah ad Din Governorates that was recaptured from ISIS in the second half of 2014 by Iraqi Kurdish fighters and Shiite militiamen.
—Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2016
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of mostly Shiite militiamen — from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and as far away as Pakistan and Afghanistan — flocked to Sayedah Zainab’s rundown neighborhoods, transforming a pilgrimage site into a military zone.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
After a Genocide in Rwanda, Painful Memories Run Deep
The Central African country is marking the anniversary of a monthslong rampage by militiamen that killed some 800,000 people.
—Matt Stevens Bilal Shbair Abdi Latif Dahir Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Consider the case of Suleiman Bek, a medium-sized town near the border between Diyala and Salah ad Din Governorates that was recaptured from ISIS in the second half of 2014 by Iraqi Kurdish fighters and Shiite militiamen.
—Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2016
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“Militiaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/militiaman. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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militiaman
noun
mi·li·tia·man
mə-ˈlish-ə-mən 
: a member of a militia
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