Quotes About Paramilitaries

Ya para agosto, las brigadas paramilitares derechistas bloqueaban el tráfico con barricadas ardientes y protagonizaban batallas campales con grupos de jóvenes izquierdistas en el centro de Santiago, mientras grupos estudiantiles de democratacristianos buscaban mártires en enfrentamientos con la policía durante manifestaciones contra políticas educacionales juzgadas perjudiciales para las escuelas privadas.

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.

In 1991, not counting the regular police, there had been more than 400,000 internal security troops and paramilitaries across the whole USSR – one for every 700 Soviet citizens, and one for every ten regular soldiers. By 1995 there were some 382,500 security and paramilitary troops in the Russian Federation alone, or one for every 392 citizens.

When all the exceptions have been made, however, Islamic states and paramilitaries are in a league of their own when it comes to religious censorship.

Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator. Should the state be accorded more leniency because, legally speaking, it has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force? Or, conversely, should we hold soldiers and cops to a higher standard than paramilitaries?