The Popular Defence Forces are multi religious.

(b) The Popular Defence Forces (PDF) are paramilitary forces that are mobilized when there is a threat to the national security.

It is the moral and legal duty of the Government to help PDF in doing so

It is not the policy of the Uganda People's Defence Forces, including the Local Defence Units (LDUs), to recruit anyone under the age of 18 years.

However, what is new in this regard is the involvement, by the Special Rapporteur, of the paramilitary forces such as the Popular Defense Forces.

Also thanks to the efforts of UPDF, the districts of Lira and Soroti are now devoid of any LRA activity.

PDF and Janjaweed adopted tactics that resembled a scorched earth policy to deny armed movements support from the civilian population.

And PDF is composed of those members of the society who opted to take arms to defend the lives and property of their families against those attacks.

In Southern Darfur, 800 weapons were collected by the Government of the Sudan over the period of review as part of its effort to downsize the Popular Defence Forces.

During September there were numerous violent incidents initiated either by the Sudanese Armed Forces, the Popular Defence Forces and tribal militias, or SLM A in both Northern and Southern Darfur.

Three miles to the target. We're never off the main roads.

II. FORMATION OF MOZAMBICAN DEFENCE FORCES

As a goodwill gesture before this Summit, the Government will further demobilize another 20 per cent of PDF, hence totalling 50 per cent.

The CDF is the most senior appointment in the ADF.

Accordingly, ADF members

75. Under this section of his report, the Special Rapporteur also intentionally implicated the paramilitary forces, including the Popular Defense Forces and the so called mujahidin in the slavery practices which he described.

A Defence Force statement claimed that the house was used as a base of the Azanian People apos s Liberation Army (the PAC military wing) base and had been under surveillance for days.

4. The New Zealand Defence Forces also receive training assistance from the Australian Department of Defence. Areas of instruction

The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan.

It is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).

According to the IDF spokesman, he was shot when he threw stones at the IDF.

In the words of Calderon, There is a media war, and each citizen, each computer user, is a soldier.

d Includes the cost of defense family housing.

IDF soldiers did not respond to the firing.

Self Defence Forces arrive at the scene of the tsunami in Japan.

Right of self defence of military personnel of the United Nations force

Most of the victims were either CNDD FDD members or demobilized CNDD FDD combatants accused of collaboration with FDN.

Membership in the popular defence forces did not depend on religious considerations.

There was no reaction from the IDF.

We were also impressed by the dignified manner in which the evacuation was carried out by the Israel Defense Forces.

In six cases, the victims were beheaded in brutal attacks and the bodies of three victims displayed in public with the mutilated heads alongside.

All ADF operations are subject to the provisions of international law.

Desirous of normalizing the situation, the Government has demobilized 30 per cent of PDF in response to the Darfur action plan signed between the Government and the United Nations on 5 August 2004.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) is reportedly investigating that tragic and most unfortunate incident.

An average of 45 people a day were being made homeless, and since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces had killed an average of 60 people a month.

In the last two years, three young girls had been killed by IDF gunfire while actually sitting at their school desks.

An IDF soldier was slightly wounded by a stone in Gaza City.

Four Palestinians were injured when they threw stones at IDF forces in Rafah.

Start thinking about the long term and not just about the next election.

Most of them were wounded by IDF shooting during the dispersal of stone throwers.

Subsequently, Hizbullah fired several artillery and mortar rounds towards IDF positions in the area, stating that it was in retaliation for the IDF fire.

On 29 August, FDN soldiers searching for FNL combatants killed a 9 year old boy when they opened fire on houses in Musigati commune, Bubanza Province.

The defence force plans to recruit and train 70 additional soldiers in the coming six months.

Three additional residents were injured by IDF shooting (in the Shati apos refugee camp).

(d) The Government ensure that its security forces, army, police forces, popular defence forces and other paramilitary or civil defence groups be properly trained and act in compliance with the standards set forth under international law, and that those responsible for violations be brought to justice.