The Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Snegur's recommendation passed on Nov. 4 a resolution ordering the disbanding of all voluntary militias, confiscation of their firearms, and lifting of blockades.

He rose to become honorary Consul of the MVSN Blackshirts - the voluntary militia after the March on Rome.

Later, Sah Doh Mu Sool was further developed and made widespread by voluntary militias of the common people, who often fought in battles to defend their villages .

In 1859, he wrote a pamphlet on national defense, which inspired the "Sharpshooter's movement", a voluntary militia of some political importance during the 1860s.

Benjamin Franklin organized a voluntary militia in Quaker-controlled Pennsylvania, whose pacifist legislature refused to support the American revolutionary war.

He was active in the voluntary militia during the Russian scare towards the end of the 19th century.

But a generation born since the war has vowed not to be controlled or terrorized by this ideology or by the voluntary, state-protected militias that continue to try to control the streets.

It demanded the repeal of a Nov. 2 resolution establishing a republican guard, and ordered Moldavia's government to disband all voluntary militias.

In March 1943, he joined the voluntary anti-communist militia sponsored by the Italians.

In 1958, he created a "voluntary militia for national security," which was known as the Tonton Macoutes, a battalion of brutal men and women aggressively recruited from among the country's urban and rural poor.