In 2012 only 11% of municipalities were affected.According to intelligence estimates, the FARC's total strength, including lightly armed support militias, has fallen from some 40,000 in 2000 to fewer than 18,000 today.
In 2011, the Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat had his hands broken by Assad-supporting militia.
Instead he supported militia like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Commandnd, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, As-Sa'iqa, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, and the Abu Nidal Organization.
Government troops and supporting militias went house to house, killing entire families and smashing men's heads with concrete blocks.
The presidents also discussed issues of regional stability, particularly in eastern Congo, where Rwanda has supported militias that provide it with access to Congolese minerals.
He accused the government of committing "repeated war crimes and crimes against humanity" by supporting militias and nomads who have been driving black Africans out of the region.
The visit made plain the determination of Iraqi leaders to move closer to Tehran despite American accusations that Iran supports militias in Iraq.
Making their fourth submission to the Human Rights Council, the panel of four investigators said that government forces and supporting militias had attacked Sunni civilians and that opposition forces had attacked Alawite and other pro-government communities.
But he rejected rebel assertions that the paramilitary offensive there was backed by government security forces, long accused of tacitly supporting militias in their war against leftists and suspected rebel sympathizers.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki heads a regime that supports militias and their death squads, balks at pushing amnesty and reconciliation with former Baathists and regime loyalists and seems oblivious to widespread corruption and incompetence.
