Example sentences for: militias

How can you use “militias” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The possibility of an open conflict with Indonesia cannot be ruled out, particularly if pro-integration militias launch an attack from the western half of the island of Timor."

  • In Singapore, the Sunday Straits Times reported from West Timor that pro-Jakarta militias are being trained by Indonesian army defectors to kill Australian soldiers.

  • The USAT lead goes high with the U.N.'s decision, driven by a fear of abandoning East Timor to murdering militias, to buy some time by delaying until Friday the planned evacuation of its remaining personnel from East Timor.

  • In what it calls a "case study" of the problems that plague U.N. intervention, the paper gives a blow-by-blow account of how Indonesia wriggled out of Western demands that it agree in advance to shackle pro-Jarkata militias on East Timor and guarantee the safety of foreign election observers.

  • It published transcripts of recordings of two-way radio conversations between the special forces unit of the Indonesian army--the Kopassus--and anti-independence militias.


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