Indeed, with the military supporting and, according to some accounts, taking part in the militia violence, the police were sometimes placed in an impossible position.

They will be backing up Iraqi units in the mission to protect the Iraqi people from the rising militia violence and eventually quell it.

On Saturday, he declared that more Iraqis were dying from militia violence than from the insurgency.

"More Iraqis are dying from the militia violence than from the terrorists," he said.

The soldiers were sent to help curb militia violence.

The Indonesian military has been accused of fomenting militia violence against the separatists.

Tribal conflicts and armed militia violence and attacks regularly occur.

In 1994, still unable to bring peace to a Somalia torn by militia violence, the United States withdrew.

There is a danger that militia violence will now escalate in a furious attempt to forestall independence.

The 6th Maryland was then disbanded and the unit blamed for all police and militia violence against the rioters.